Authors of version 3.34
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.34 ====================Released: 2011-09-23, Munich
Contributors
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The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
in the changelog below) reports, notes and ideas that have been
incorporated in changes in this release:
Alan Curry <pacman@kosh.dhis.org>
Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com>
Stephen Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
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rt_sigqueueinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk [Stephan Mueller]
New page for rt_sigqueueinfo(2) and rt_tgsigqueueinfo(2)
This replaces the previous '.so' man page link file for
rt_sigqueueinfo.2, which linked to this sigqueue() man page.
cciss.4
Stephen M. Cameron
New man page for cciss driver
I obtained the information in this man page as a consequence
of having worked on the cciss driver for the past several years,
and having written considerable portions of it.
Michael Kerrisk
Copyedit by mtk
hpsa.4
Stephen M. Cameron
New man page for the hpsa driver
I obtained the information in this man page as a consequence
of being the main author of the hpsa driver
Michael Kerrisk
Copyedits my mtk
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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fstatat.2
Michael Kerrisk [David Howells]
Document AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT
lseek.2
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake, Sunil Mushran]
Document SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA
These flags, designed for discovering holes in a file,
were added in Linux 3.1. Included comments from Eric
Blake and Sunil Mushran.
madvise.2
Doug Goldstein
Add MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE
Document the MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE flags added to
madvise() in Linux 2.6.38.
New and changed links
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rt_tgsigqueueinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new rt_sigqueueinfo.2 page
sigqueue.2
Michael Kerrisk
Create link to page that was relocated to section 3
Global changes
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Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Change reference to "sigqueue(2)" to "sigqueue(3)"
Changes to individual pages
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fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: Add EPERM and ESPIPE errors
lseek.2
Michael Kerrisk [Alan Curry, Reuben Thomas]
Remove suspect note about 'whence' being incorrect English.
prctl.2
Paul Pluzhnikov
PR_SET_DUMPABLE makes process non-ptrace-attachable
readlink.2
Guillem Jover
Document using st_size to allocate the buffer
Michael Kerrisk
Added copyright text + changelog note for Guillem Jover's patch
sched_setscheduler.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document 2.6.39 changes to rules governing changes from SCHED_IDLE policy
Since Linux 2.6.39, unprivileged processes under the
SCHED_IDLE policy can switch to another nonrealtime
policy if their nice value falls within the range
permitted by their RLIMIT_NICE limit.
tkill.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add rt_sigqueueinfo (2)
btowc.3, wctob.3
Michael Kerrisk [Brian M. Carlson]
Add pointers to better, thread-safe alternative functions
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606899
fwide.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add _ISOC95_SOURCE to feature test macro requirements
Since glibc 2.12, _ISOC95_SOURCE can also be used to expose
prototype of this function.
index.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Fix text mentioning terminating null
pthread_sigqueue.3
Michael Kerrisk
Replace explicit mention of rt_tgsigqueueinfo() with SEE ALSO reference
sigqueue.3
Michael Kerrisk
Move this page to section 3
Now that the underlying system call rt_sigqueueinfo(2) is
properly documented, move sigqueue() to Section 3, since
it is really a library function.
Michael Kerrisk
Update text in line with existence of new rt_sigqueueinfo.2 page
wcsnlen.3
Jon Grant
Improve description of 'maxlen' argument
It's worth clarifying 'maxlen' is in wide-char units, not bytes.
wprintf.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add _ISOC95_SOURCE to feature test macro requirements
Since glibc 2.12, _ISOC95_SOURCE can also be used to expose
prototype of these functions.
feature_test_macros.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document _ISOC95_SOURCE
_ISOC95_SOURCE was added in glibc 2.12 as a means
to expose C90 Amendment 1 definitions.
ip.7
Benjamin Poirier [Neil Horman]
Improve description of IP_MTU_DISCOVER
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add rt_sigqueueinfo(2)