Authors of version 2.74
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.74 ====================Released: 2007-12-20
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain PORTAL <alain.portal@free.fr>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
David Brown <lkml@davidb.org>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Alain PORTAL
Formatting fixes.
Various pages
mtk / Alain Portal
s/``...''/"..."/
Various pages
mtk
s/epoch/Epoch/
Various pages
mtk
Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session
logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
_syscall.2
mtk
Nowadays there is _syscall6() also.
chroot.2
mtk
Various minor formatting changes.
epoll_wait.2
mtk
Fix types in structs.
Formatting fixes.
mount.2
mtk, after a note by Sam Morris
Clarify that MS_NODIRATIME provides a subset of the
functionality provided by MS_NOATIME.
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Minor rearrangement of text.
select_tut.2
mtk
Fix (my) typos in argument names.
Formatting fixes.
spu_create.2
Jeremy Kerr
We can use context FDs for the dirfd argument to the *at() syscalls.
times.2
mtk, after a note from David Brown and Andrew Morton
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119447727031225&w=2
Rework the text describing the return value to be closer
to the requirements of POSIX.1; move Linux details
to NOTES and add a warning not to rely on those details.
Add a warning about the -1 to -4095 bug which results
in a 41 second window where the glibc wrapper will wrongly
return -1 indicating an error.
mtk
Remove cruft HZ text.
Clarify text describing return value of clock(3).
getw.3
Mats Wichmann
CONFORMING TO: getw() and putw() were in SUSv2, but are not
in POSIX.1-2001.
hash.3
mtk / Alain Portal
Minor rewordings + formatting fixes.
st.4
Alain Portal / mtk
Many formatting fixes.
mtk
Place ERRORS in alphabetical order.
vcs.4
Samuel Thibault
Document VT_GETHIFONTMASK (new in 2.6.18) and add to example program;
attribute/text characters are in the host byte order.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456437
mtk
Minor edits.
bootparam.7
Alain PORTAL
Formatting fixes.
inotify.7
mtk
Minor heading changes and reformattings.
man-pages.7
mtk
Note that code segments, structure definitions, shell session
logs, should be indented by 4 spaces.
spufs.7
Jeremy Kerr
Add a little information about the differences to mbox.