Authors of version 2.15
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.15 ====================Released: 2005-11-30
Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
Malcolm Scott <mas90@io.malc.org.uk>
Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
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sigvec.3 -- for details, see below.
sigset.3 -- for details, see below.
Changes to individual pages
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kill.2
mtk
Added text describing the 2.6.[0-7] EPERM bug that occurred
when sending signals to a process group.
sigaction.2
mtk
Noted that si_signo is unused on Linux.
sigpending.2
mtk
Added BUGS noting wrapper function problem that existed
in glibc versions <= 2.2.1.
sigpause.2
mtk
Moved to section 3; see also sigpause.3 below.
sigsetops.3
mtk
Added a GLIBC NOTES section describing sigisemptyset(),
sigandset(), and sigorset().
sigvec.2
sigblock.2
mtk
These pages have been deleted, and replaced by a new sigvec.3
man page that more fully describes the BSD signal API.
siggetmask.2
sigmask.2
sigsetmask.2
mtk
These links to the now-deleted sigblock.2 have been also been
deleted. They are replaced by corresponding links in Section 3:
sigmask.3, sigsetmask.3, siggetmask.3.
sigvec.3
mtk
This new page is provides a fuller description of the
BSD signal API than was provided in the now-deleted sigvec.2
and sigblock.2.
sigblock.3
siggetmask.3
sigmask.3
sigsetmask.3
mtk
Created as links to sigvec.3.
sigpause.3
mtk
Moved here from Section 2.
Some minor wording fixes; clarified System V origins of
X/Open flavour of this function.
sigset.3
mtk
New page describing the System V signal API: sigset(), sighold(),
sigrelse(), sigignore().
strftime.3
James Vega
Add further text clarifying that %+ specifier is not supported in
glibc2.
mtk
Added GLIBC NOTES section describing optional 'flag' and 'width'
components of conversion specifiers.
Some wording changes to bring terminology closer to SUSv3.
Added an example program.
vm86old.2
mtk / aeb
Add as new linik to vm86.2.
intro.7
mtk
Added a few words to reflect the fact that several of the section
7 pages provide overviews of various topics.
signal.7
mtk
Added some SEE ALSO entries.
socket.7
Senthil Kumar / mtk
Added text noting that select()/poll() do not respect SO_RCVLOWAT.
udp.7
Malcolm Scott
s/tcp_socket/udp_socket/ in example
Fixes Debian bug 340927