Authors of version 2.55
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.55 ====================Released: 2007-06-10
Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alexander Taboriskiy <alextab@math-solution.com>
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagoin.com>
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Serge van den Boom <svdb@stack.nl>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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clone.2
getdents.2
gettid.2
ioprio_set.2
llseek.2
mmap2.2
modify_ldt.2
mq_getsetattr.2
pivot_root.2
quotactl.2
readdir.2
sysctl.2
syslog.2
tkill.2
mtk, after a note by Mike Frysinger
Updated to reflect the fact that the _syscallN() macros
have gone away,
Several pages
mtk
Change reference to path_resolution.2 to path_resolution.7.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Moved pages
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path_resolution.2 has been moved to section 7, thus path_resolution.7
mtk
Reason: this is an overview page, not one describing as
a specific system call.
Changes to individual pages
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MAINTAINING
mtk, after a note from Xose Vazquez Perez
Added pointer to Red Hat man-pages bugzilla.
mtk
Added a release philosophy note on separating out big
formatting changes into their own release that contains minimal
content changes.
accept.2
mtk
Add new EXAMPLE section with pointer to example in bind.2.
arch_prctl.2
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE section.
bind.2
mtk
Expand example program, and move it to new EXAMPLE section.
Added test pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
cacheflush.2
mtk
Convert NOTES section to CONFORMING TO and note that
this call is Linux-specific.
Other minor rewordings.
connect.2
mtk
Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
create_module.2
mtk
Add ENOSYS error.
fcntl.2
flock.2
mtk
Small rewrite of SEE ALSO text pointing to Documentation/* in
kernel source.
get_kernel_syms.2
mtk
Added ERRORS heading
Add ENOSYS error.
getdtablesize.2
mtk
Added an ERRORS section.
getsid.2
mtk
Added a RETURN VALUE section.
getpid.2
mtk
Added an ERRORS section (stating that the calls are
always successful).
ioctl_list.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference to ioctl.2.
listen.2
mtk
Add new EXAMPLE section with pointer to example in bind.2.
query_module.2
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Add ENOSYS error.
recv.2
mtk
Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
sched_get_priority_max.2
sched_rr_get_interval.2
sched_setscheduler.2
sched_yield.2
mtk
Modified .TH line
send.2
mtk
Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
set_tid_address.2
mtk
Added an ERRORS section (stating that the call is
always successful).
signal.2
mtk, after a note from Alexander Taboriskiy
Strengthen warning against the use of signal().
Added siginterrupt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
mtk
Rewrote various parts; added an ERRORS section.
socket.2
mtk
Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
stat.2
mtk
Added EXAMPLE program.
syscall.2
mtk
Converted to -man format; some rewrites; added an EXAMPLE.
sysctl.2
mtk
Improved the example program.
getnameinfo.3
mtk
Add text pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
getaddrinfo.3
mtk
Add example programs.
Add getnameinfo() to SEE ALSO list.
memmove.3
mtk / Serge van den Boom
Clarify discussion of what happens if 'src' and 'dest' overlap.
regex.3
Justin Pryzby
Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO list.
sigpause.3
mtk after a note from Ulrich Drepper
Clarify discussion of feature test macros that are needed to
expose Sysem V and BSD versions of this function in glibc.
undocumented.3
mtk
Removed some functions that have been documented.
wprintf.2
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Remove wscanf.3 from SEE ALSO list, since that page does not exist.
utmp.5
Joey Hess
Removed outdated note on xdm.
See Debian bug 418009.
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Removed outdated note about Debian and libc5.
bootparam.7
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Fix order of commands listed under 'init='.
hier.7
Joey Hess
Add /media, remove /dos.
See Debian bug 418234.
inotify.7
mtk
Added text describing what happens when the buffer given to
read(2) is too small to return information about the next event,
and noting the behaviour change in 2.6.21.
man-pages.7
mtk
Added text to note that ERRORS list should be in alphabetical order.
mdoc.7
mdoc.samples.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO reference to groff_mdoc(7).
unix.7
mtk
Added EXAMPLE section with pointer to bind.2 EXAMPLE.
ld.so.8
mtk
Simplify text describing --inhibit-rpath.
mtk, after a note by John Reiser
Describe use of $ORIGIN in rpath.