Authors of version 2.77

==================== Changes in man-pages-2.77 ====================

Released: 2008-01-31


Contributors
------------

The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:

Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@chezphil.org>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


Global changes
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stdarg.3
bootparam.7
Thomas Huriaux
Fix broken use of single quotes at start of line,
as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462636

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.

New pages
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remove_COLOPHON.sh
mtk
Script to remove the COLOPHON section from the man pages provided
as command-line arguments. This is useful to remove the COLOPHON
sections from all of the man pages in two different release trees
in order to do a "diff -ruN" to see the "real" differences
between the trees.


Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

fcntl.2
mtk
Replace tables with .TP macros.

fork.2
mtk
Added discussion of directory streams.
Removed "#include <sys/types>" from SYNOPSIS.
Changed authorship notice.

futex.2
mtk
Add ENOSYS error to errors.
Phil Endecott
Explicitly describe return value in the event of an error.

inotify_add_watch.2
mtk
Minor wording changes.

splice.2
WANG Cong
Fix types for 2 and 4 arguments in splice prototype.

wait.2
Phil Endecott
Clarify description of return value for WNOHANG.

tkill.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by
tgkill().

alloca.3
mtk
Change description in NAME section.
Various rewrites and additions (including notes on longjmp() and
SIGSEGV).
mtk / Vincent Lefevre
Weaken warning against use of alloca(), and
point out some cases where it can be useful;
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461100.

bootparam.7
Pavel Heimlich
Remove junk line.

inotify.7
mtk
Replace tables with .TP macros.