Authors of version 3.35
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.35 ====================Released: 2011-10-04, 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:
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Kevin Lyda <kevin@ie.suberic.net>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
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recvmmsg.2
Andi Kleen, Michael Kerrisk
New man page for recvmmsg(2)
setns.2
Eric W. Biederman
New manual page for setns(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Various improvements
Global changes
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Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: remove spaces around em-dash
Normal English typographical convention is not to have
spaces around em dashes.
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/null pointer/NULL pointer/
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: use ORing
Use "ORing", not "OR'ing", nor an italic ".IR OR ing".
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: consistent use of "null wide character"
Bring more consistency to the discussion of
"[terminating] null wide character"
by writing (at least in the initial use in a page)
"[terminating] null wide character (L'\0')".
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: consistent use of "null byte"
Bring more consistency to the discussion of
"[terminating] null byte"
by writing (at least in the initial use in a page)
"[terminating] null byte ('\0')".
mount.2, prctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
s/task/thread/ for consistency with other pages
Changes to individual pages
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lseek.2
Guillem Jover
CONFORMING TO: Note other systems that have SEEK_HOLE+SEEK_DATA
recv.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add mention of recvmmsg(2)
recvmmsg.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add sendmmsg(2)
send.2
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 adds MSG_NOSIGNAL
sigwaitinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that attempts to wait for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP are silently ignored
stat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008 requirements for lstat()
Michael Kerrisk
Regarding automounter action, add a reference to fstatat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Clean up text describing which POSIX describes S_IF* constants
aio_cancel.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Clarify meaning of "return status" and "error status"
gets.3
Michael Kerrisk
POSIX.1-2008 marks gets() obsolescent
The page formerly erroneously stated that POSIX.1-2008
removed the specification of this function.
mbsnrtowcs.3
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008
This function is specified in the POSIX.1-2008 revision.
regex.3
Michael Kerrisk [Reuben Thomas]
Change "terminating null" to "terminating null byte"
stpcpy.3
stpncpy.3
Mike Frysinger
Note that these functions are in POSIX.1-2008
Update the "CONFORMING TO" sections of these functions to
note that they are now part of the POSIX.1-2008 standard.
stpncpy.3
Michael Kerrisk
Change "terminating null" to "terminating null byte"
strcpy.3
Mike Frysinger
SEE ALSO: Add stpncpy(3)
strdup.3
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: strndup() is in POSIX.1-2008
wcpcpy.3
wcpncpy.3
wcsnlen.3
wcsnrtombs.3
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008
These functions are specified in the POSIX.1-2008 revision.
proc.5
Eric W. Biederman
Document /proc/[pid]/ns/
Michael Kerrisk
Some edit's to Eric Biederman's /proc/[pid]/ns/ additions
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
List setns(2) as an operation allowed by CAP_SYS_ADMIN