Authors of version 2.63
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.63 ====================Released: 2007-07-16
Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Eduardo M. Fleury <efleury@br.ibm.com>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Marc Boyer <marc.boyer@enseeiht.fr>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Martin R�hricht <martin@roehricht.info>
Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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gettimeofday.2
madvise.2
msgctl.2
select.2
semctl.2
shmctl.2
syslog.2
stat.2
a64l.3
printf.3
termios.3
xdr.3
sd.4
mtk
Minor wording changes.
obsolete.2
syscall.2
unimplemented.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO reference to syscalls.2.
New pages
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sgetmask.2
mtk
A real man page for sgetmask(2) and ssetmask(2).
(This page replaces a previous link of the same, which linked
signal.2.)
spu_create.2
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU spu_create() system call.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
spu_run.2
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU spu_run() system call.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
spufs.7
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU file system.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
Removed Pages
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__clone.2
mtk
This file was created by accident in 2.61, as a copy of clone.2.
(it should have been a link to clone.2.)
obsolete.2
mtk
Details on this page are covered in syscalls.2 and in
respective syscall man pages (stat.2, uname.2).
undocumented.2
mtk
This page is very out of date, and in any case difficult
to maintain. Information about undocumented system calls
is maintained in the HOWTOHELP file, and probably in other
places soon.
killpg.3
mtk
This rather incomplete page seems unnecessary since there
is a killpg.2.
New links
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chown32.2
fchown32.2
getegid32.2
geteuid32.2
getgid32.2
getgroups32.2
getresgid32.2
getresuid32.2
getuid32.2
lchown32.2
setfsgid32.2
setfsuid32.2
setgid32.2
setgroups32.2
setregid32.2
setresgid32.2
setresuid32.2
setreuid32.2
setuid32.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "32".
fcntl64.2
fstat64.2
fstatat64.2
fstatfs64.2
ftruncate64.2
getdents64.2
lstat64.2
pread64.2
pwrite64.2
sendfile64.2
stat64.2
statfs64.2
truncate64.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "64".
__clone2.2
clone2.2
mtk
Links to clone.2.
ugetrlimit.2
mtk
Link to getrlimit.2.
mq_notify.2
mq_open.2
mq_timedreceive.2
mq_timedsend.2
mq_unlink.2
mtk
Added as links to corresponding section 3 pages.
fadvise64.2
fadvise64_64.2
mtk
Links to posix_fadvise.2.
rt_sigaction.2
rt_sigpending.2
rt_sigprocmask.2
rt_sigtimedwait.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "rt_" prefix.
rt_sigqueueinfo.2
mtk
Link to sigqueue.2.
madvise1.2
tuxcall.2
vserver.2
mtk / Ivana Varekova
Link to unimplemented.2.
Changes to individual pages
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access.2
mtk
Fairly substantial rewrites of various parts,
and a few additions.
chmod.2
mtk
Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) needs
either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
chown.2
mtk
Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) and lchown(2)
need either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
Added an example program.
killpg.2
mtk
Note that killpg() is actually a library function on Linux.
mmap.2
mtk
Added note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays invokes mmap2().
mmap2.2
Ivana Varekova / mtk
On most platforms the unit for 'offset' is 4096 bytes, not
the system page size.
mtk
Rewrote NOTES to note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays
invokes this system call.
mtk
Added an EXAMPLE program.
oldfstat.2
oldlstat.2
oldstat.2
mtk
Changed link to point to stat.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
olduname.2
oldolduname.2
mtk
Changed link to point to uname.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
sched_setaffinity.2
Martin R�hricht
Added _GNU_SOURCE to SYNOPSIS.
semctl.2
mtk
Remove reference discussion of ipc(2), since none of the
other System V IPC pages mention ipc(2).
semop.2
mtk
Add an example code segment.
shmctl.2
mtk
Add svipc(7) to SEE ALSO list.
sigaction.2
mtk
Reformatted tables as lists; other minor reformattings and
wording changes.
sigqueue.2
mtk
Added info on rt_sigqueueinfo(2).
sigwaitinfo.2
mtk
Noted that sigwaitinfo() is a library function implemented on
top of sigtimedwait().
ssetmask.2
mtk
Make this link point to new sgetmask.2 instead of signal.2.
stat.2
mtk
Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
have appeared over time.
uname.2
mtk
Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
have appeared over time.
unimplemented.2
mtk
Add vserver, madvise1 to NAME line.
Removed SEE ALSO reference to obsolete.2.
Ivana Varekova
Add tuxcall to NAME line.
mktemp.3
Patrick Mansfield
Fix description of return value.
strcat.3
Marc Boyer
Minor fix to example program.
undocumented.3
mtk
Add section numbers to function names; remove some functions
since they are documented.
proc.5
mtk
Update/correct text on /proc/malloc.
mtk, after a note by Pierre Habouzit, and a few comments
by Justin Pryzby
Update description of /proc/PID/stat to match 2.6.21.
See Debian bug 417933.
inotify.7
mtk
IN_DONT_FOLLOW and IN_ONLYDIR are only available from 2.6.15.
signal.7
Stepan Kasal / mtk
Note SIGRTMIN value depends on glibc.
mtk
Various rewrites and additions to the text in real-time signals.
Add SEE ALSO reference to sgetmask.2.
svipc.7
mtk
Add ipc(2) to SEE ALSO.