Authors of version 2.37
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.37 ====================Released: 2006-08-02
Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Dean Gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Frank van Viegen <F.C.vanViegen@UTwente.nl>
Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Ville Skytt� <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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Thomas Huriaux / mtk
Various formatting found as a result of reviewing the following
command were fixed.
for a in $(wc man?/*.?| awk '$1 > 2 ' | grep -v total); do
echo $a; groff -Tascii -wmac -mman $a > /dev/null;
done 2>&1 | less
See Debian Bug# 378544.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
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readlinkat.2
mtk (after prompting from Ivana Varekova)
New page for readlinkat(2), new in kernel 2.6.16.
Changes to individual pages
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ldd.1
Ville Skytt�
Document "-u" option.
chdir.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on current working directory.
chroot.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on root directory.
epoll_ctl.2
Frank van Viegen / mtk
Fix description of EBADF error.
exevce.2
mtk
Add text noting that effective IDs are copied to
saved set-IDs during execve().
See Debian bug 379297.
getitimer.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on interval tiemrs.
getrlimit.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on resource limits.
getpriority.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve().
inotify_add_watch.2
mtk
Some rewording; included text describing required file
permissions.
intro.2
mtk
Revised description of standards under CONFORMING TO.
makecontext.3
Helmut Grohne / mtk
Point out that args following 'argc' are int.
mtk
Added an example program.
Various minor wording fixes.
mmap.2
mtk
Expand description of MAP_POPULATE.
mtk, after prompting by Dan Gaudet
Expand description MAP_NONBLOCK.
mtk
Various minor formatting fixes.
openat.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.
nanosleep.2
mtk
Noted buggy behaviour in Linux 2.4 and earlier when
nanosleep() is restarted after receiving stop+SIGCONT signals.
nice.2
mtk
Very minor rewording.
readlink.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk
Noted preservation of scheduling parameters across execve().
setpgid.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on process group ID.
setsid.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on session ID.
umask.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on umask.
atexit.3
mtk
Noted inheritance of registrations across fork().
capabilities.7
mtk
Added material on privileges required for move_pages().
CLONE_NEWNS needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
keyctl(KEYCTL_CHOWN) and keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM) require
CAP_SYS_ADMIN.