Authors of version 2.72
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.72 ====================Released: 2007-12-14
Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain PORTAL <alain.portal@free.fr>
Alex Tuninga <atuninga@google.com>
Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Rob Weryk <rjweryk@uwo.ca>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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Various pages
Alain PORTAL / mtk
Format include files consistently (".I <.*\.h>").
Various pages
Alain PORTAL / mtk
Format pathname in italics (.I).
dbopen.3
mpool.3
recno.3
Alain PORTAL
Remove brackets ([]) around error names.
console.4
tty.4
ttyS.4
issue.5
ttytype.5
utmp.5
mtk / Maxime Vaudequin
Some systems have mingetty(8), others have agetty(8), so both
should be mentioned when we are talking about getty-style programs.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Renamed pages
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filesystems.5
mtk / Alain PORTAL
Was previously fs.5
New links
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fs.5
mtk / Alain PORTAL
Link to filesystems.5.
New links
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argz.3
Bert Wesarg / mtk
Link to argz_add.3.
envz.3
Bert Wesarg / mtk
Link to envz_add.3.
Changes to individual pages
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readahead.2
Rob Weryk
Fix declaration of 'offset' in SYNOPSIS.
seteuid.2
mtk
s/SETGUID/SETEUID/ in .TH line.
__setfpucw.3
mtk
Fixed include files references / formatting.
abort.3
mtk, after a note by Alex Tuninga
A fairly significant rewrite to clarify operation of abort().
argz_add.3
Bert Wesarg / mtk
s/envz/envz_add/ in SEE ALSO.
basename.3
mtk
s/DIRNAME/BASENAME/ in .TH line, and swap function names
in NAME section.
envz_add.3
Bert Wesarg / mtk
s/argz/argz_add/ in SEE ALSO.
flockfile.3
mtk
s/LOCKFILE/FLOCKFILE/ in .TH line.
getgrent_r.3
mtk
s/GETGRENT/GETGRENT_R/ in .TH line.
stdio.3
Sam Varshavchik
Reformat function list at end of page as a proper table.
ttyslot.3
Maxime Vaudequin
Revert earlier s/getty/mingetty/. This page talks about
historical behavior, and that means "getty(8)".
undocumented.3
mtk
Remove reference to "obstack stuff"; it's not clear that
that is about.
console_ioctl.4
mtk
s/CONSOLE_IOCTLS/CONSOLE_IOCTL/ in .TH line.
proc.5
mtk
s/fs (5)/filesystems (5)/
man-pages.7
mtk / Alain PORTAL
Improve discussion of formatting of file names.