Authors of version 2.76
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.76 ====================Released: 2008-01-14
Contributors
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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longjmp.3
printf.3
scanf.3
setbuf.3
setjmp.3
sk98lin.4
environ.7
mtk
Rework/remove use of ".ad" macros.
ioctl_list.2
mlock.2
mprotect.2
mremap.2
syslog.2
cfree.3
mpool.3
offsetof.3
rpc.3
stdin.3
mtk
Fix unbalanced quotes in formatting macros.
ftok.3
mtk
s/i-node/inode/, for consistency with other pages and POSIX.1-2001.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Changes to individual pages
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chown.2
mtk
Minor wording change.
dup.2
mtk
Reordered text in DESCRIPTION and added some details for dup2().
open.2
Trond Myklebust / mtk
Minor fix to O_EXCL changes in previous release.
gettid.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; noted that thread ID is not the same
thing as a POSIX thread ID.
pipe.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; minor additions to EXAMPLE text.
umask.2
mtk
A few rewrites and additions.
strptime.3
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon / mtk
Add "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" to example program.
initrd.4
mtk
Use quotes more consistently in formatting macros.
random.4
mtk, after a report by Daniel Kahn Gilmor
Add 2.6 details for /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459232.
pthreads.7
mtk
Minor changes.
spufs.7
mtk / Jeremy Kerr
s/MultiSource Synchronization/MultiSource Synchronization (MSS)/