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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-09-21 13:26:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2005-09-21 13:26:50 +0000 |
| commit | 6859d357ee3875127362449a4dc0485bcae3a28a (patch) | |
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| parent | 644e22fd0d6503058e8249db51b2bdcb2a8846e0 (diff) | |
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Start of 2.08 release.
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -==================== Changes in man-pages-2.08 ==================== +==================== Changes in man-pages-2.09 ==================== -Released: 2005-09-21 +Released: 2005-??-?? Contributors ------------ @@ -8,36 +8,13 @@ Contributors The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: -Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> -Alain PORTAL <aportal@univ-montp2.fr> -Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net> -Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> -Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net> -Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org> -Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser.fujitsu-siemens.com> -David N. Welton <davidw@eidetix.com> -Dov Murik <dov@dv-networks.com> -Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi> -Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee> -Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org> -Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> -Ludovic Courtes <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr> -Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> -Nicolas Francois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net> -Norbert Buchmuller <norbi.spam@nix.hu> -Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org> -Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@gmail.com> -Tommy Pettersson <ptp@lysator.liu.se> -Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de> +##### Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- -RFC references are now always written as "RFC\ nnn" (not "RFC nnn" or -"RFCnnn"). - Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. @@ -45,284 +22,3 @@ places. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- -du.1 - Mike Frysinger - To get an effect like "-h", BLOCKSIZE must start with "human", - not "HUMAN". - -time.1 - Mike Frysinger - s/standard output/standard error/ - -clone.2 - Paul Brook / mtk - Fix small error in description of CLONE_PARENT_SETTID - -connect.2 - Heikki Orsila - Add EINTR error - See http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/12/254 - -getpriority.2 - mtk - Expanded discussion of relationship between user and kernel - representations of the nice value. - - Added discussion of RLIMIT_NICE and a cross reference to - getrlimit.2 under the description of the EACCES error. - - Noted 2.6.12 change in credentials checking for setpriority(). - -getrlimit.2 - mtk - Added description of RLIMIT_RTPRIO - - Added description of RLIMIT_NICE - -mmap.2 - mtk - Noted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7. - -mremap.2 - mtk - Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype. - Rewrote description of MREMAP_MAYMOVE. - Rewrote description of EAGAIN error. - Added discussion of resizing of memory locks. - Added entries to SEE ALSO. - Some formatting fixes. - -msgctl.2 - mtk - Added IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO, MSG_STAT descriptions. - -nanosleep.2 - Baurzhan Ismagulov - Add to prototype: define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309 - As per Debian bug 314435 - -nice.2 - mtk - Added sentence noting that range of the nice value is described - in getpriority.2. - Added cross-reference to setrlimit(2) for discussion on - RLIMIT_NICE. - -outb.2 - David N. Welton / Justin Pryzby / mtk - Clarified the order of value and port arguments; - As per Debian bug 263756 - -pause.2 - mtk - Added SEE ALSO for sigsuspend.2 - Some formatting fixes. - -poll.2 - Tommy Pettersson - nfds should be prototyped as nfds_t - As per Debian bug 322934 - - mtk - Some wording and formatting improvements. - -prctl.2 - mtk - Since kernel 2.6.13 PR_SET_DUMPABLE can also have the value 2. - -rand.3 - Hrvoje Niksic / mtk - Remove misleading text describing FreeBSD's sranddev() function. - As per debian bug 328629 - -readv.2 - mtk / Walter harms - Added LINUX NOTES on trickery performed by glibc when - vector size exceeds IOV_MAX. - - Formatting clean-ups. - -remap_file_pages.2 - mtk - Added text to note that start and size are both rounded downwards. - -sched_setparam.2 - mtk - Modified discussion of privileges; added pointer to - sched_setscheduler.2 for a discussion of privileges and - resource limits. - -sched_setscheduler.2 - mtk - Modified discussion of privileges; added discussion of RLIMIT_RTPRIO. - -semctl.2 - mtk - Added IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT descriptions. - -shmctl.2 - mtk - Added IPC_INFO, SHM_INFO, SHM_STAT descriptions. - -sigaction.2 - mtk - Split sigpending(), sigprocmask(), and sigsuspend() out - into separate new pages. - - Other minor changes - - mtk - NOTES: described SA_NODER / sa_mask bug which was present in - all kernels up to and including 2.6.13. - See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112360948603171&w=2 - and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112362164911432&w=2 - List: linux-kernel - Subject: Signal handling possibly wrong - From: Bodo Stroesser - Date: 2005-08-09 17:44:06 - -signal.2 - mtk - Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into - sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2 - -sigpending.2 - mtk - New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2 - Changed CONFORMING TO. - -sigprocmask.2 - mtk - New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2 - Added text on effect of NULL for 'set' argument. - Added text noting effect of ignoring SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL, - and SIGSEGV. - Noted that sigprocmask() can't be used in multithreaded process. - Fixed EINVAL error diagnostic. - Changed CONFORMING TO. - -sigsuspend.2 - mtk - New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2 - Added NOTES on usage. - Added new text to DESCRIPTION. - Changed CONFORMING TO. - -stat.2 - Mike Frysinger - Improve st_blocks description. - -carg.3 - Ramiro Aceves / aeb - Change: - One has carg(z) = atan(creal(z) / cimag(z)) - to: - One has tan(carg(z)) = cimag(z) / creal(z) - - As per Debian bug 326720 - -cmsg.3 - mtk - s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/ (POSIX standard name) - -dlopen.3 - Alain Portal - s/-nostartupfiles/-nostartfiles/ - -getaddrinfo.3 - mtk - Nowadays (since 2.3.4) glibc only sets the first ai_canonname - field if AI_CANONNAME was specified (the current behavior - is all that SUSv3 requires). - - 1,$s/PF_/AF_/g - - Added descriptions of AI_ALL, AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_V4MAPPED, - and AI_NUMERICSERV. - - Some wording and formatting fixes. - -getpwnam.3 - Bernhard R. Link / mtk - Add NOTES text describing relationship of pw_dir and HOME and - pointing out that applications should preferentially - inspect HOME - -inet.3 - Mike Frysinger - Mention "little endian" and "big endian". - Added note about octal and hex interpretation of - numbers-and-dots notation. - -rpc.3 - mtk / Ludovic Courtes - Commented out references to rpc_secure(3) -- we don't currently - have such a page in the man-pages set. - In response to Debian bug report 325115 - -setenv.3 - mtk - glibc 2.3.4 fixed the "name contains '='" bug - -strnlen.3 - Mike Frysinger - Added "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to prototype. - -initrd.4 - Norbert Buchmuller / mtk - Added text noting that the use or real-root-dev for changing - the root device is obsolete, in favour of pivot root. - (However, the page still needs to be rewritten to actually - describe the pivot_root method...) - As per Debian bug 323621. - -proc.5 - mtk - Improve text describing /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files - - Describe /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (new in 2.6.13) - - Added placeholder mention of /proc/zoneinfo (new in 2.6.13) - More needs to be said about this file - - Repaired earlier cut and paste mistake which resulted - in part of the text of this page being duplicated. - -utmp.5 - Mike Frysinger - Added text on biarch details for ut_session and ut_tv. - -capabilities.7 - mtk - Added CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE. - -ip.7 - mtk / Andrew Pimlott - Add a couple of words to make it clear that port is a 16-bit number. - Reformat long source lines (no text changed). - - s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name) - - Hasso Tepper - Fix discussion of IPC_RECVTTL / IP_TTL - -signal.7 - mtk - Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into - sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2 - -socket.7 - mtk - Clarified details of use of SO_PEERCRED. - -tcp.7 - mtk - s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/ (POSIX standard name) - s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name) - -udp.7 - mtk - Added description of UDP_CORK socket option - - s/SOL_UDP/IPPROTO_UDP/ (POSIX standard name) - s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name) diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index 3f2d37bbf0..c56ac3ae70 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -1363,3 +1363,333 @@ stat.2 truncate.2 mtk Some formatting fixes + + +==================== Changes in man-pages-2.08 ==================== + +Released: 2005-09-21 + +Contributors +------------ + +The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have +been incorporated in changes in this release: + +Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> +Alain PORTAL <aportal@univ-montp2.fr> +Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net> +Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> +Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net> +Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org> +Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser.fujitsu-siemens.com> +David N. Welton <davidw@eidetix.com> +Dov Murik <dov@dv-networks.com> +Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi> +Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee> +Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org> +Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> +Ludovic Courtes <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr> +Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> +Nicolas Francois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net> +Norbert Buchmuller <norbi.spam@nix.hu> +Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org> +Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@gmail.com> +Tommy Pettersson <ptp@lysator.liu.se> +Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de> + +Apologies if I missed anyone! + +Global changes +-------------- + +RFC references are now always written as "RFC\ nnn" (not "RFC nnn" or +"RFCnnn"). + +Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several +places. + + +Changes to individual pages +--------------------------- + +du.1 + Mike Frysinger + To get an effect like "-h", BLOCKSIZE must start with "human", + not "HUMAN". + +time.1 + Mike Frysinger + s/standard output/standard error/ + +clone.2 + Paul Brook / mtk + Fix small error in description of CLONE_PARENT_SETTID + +connect.2 + Heikki Orsila + Add EINTR error + See http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/12/254 + +getpriority.2 + mtk + Expanded discussion of relationship between user and kernel + representations of the nice value. + + Added discussion of RLIMIT_NICE and a cross reference to + getrlimit.2 under the description of the EACCES error. + + Noted 2.6.12 change in credentials checking for setpriority(). + +getrlimit.2 + mtk + Added description of RLIMIT_RTPRIO + + Added description of RLIMIT_NICE + +mmap.2 + mtk + Noted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7. + +mremap.2 + mtk + Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype. + Rewrote description of MREMAP_MAYMOVE. + Rewrote description of EAGAIN error. + Added discussion of resizing of memory locks. + Added entries to SEE ALSO. + Some formatting fixes. + +msgctl.2 + mtk + Added IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO, MSG_STAT descriptions. + +nanosleep.2 + Baurzhan Ismagulov + Add to prototype: define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309 + As per Debian bug 314435 + +nice.2 + mtk + Added sentence noting that range of the nice value is described + in getpriority.2. + Added cross-reference to setrlimit(2) for discussion on + RLIMIT_NICE. + +outb.2 + David N. Welton / Justin Pryzby / mtk + Clarified the order of value and port arguments; + As per Debian bug 263756 + +pause.2 + mtk + Added SEE ALSO for sigsuspend.2 + Some formatting fixes. + +poll.2 + Tommy Pettersson + nfds should be prototyped as nfds_t + As per Debian bug 322934 + + mtk + Some wording and formatting improvements. + +prctl.2 + mtk + Since kernel 2.6.13 PR_SET_DUMPABLE can also have the value 2. + +rand.3 + Hrvoje Niksic / mtk + Remove misleading text describing FreeBSD's sranddev() function. + As per debian bug 328629 + +readv.2 + mtk / Walter harms + Added LINUX NOTES on trickery performed by glibc when + vector size exceeds IOV_MAX. + + Formatting clean-ups. + +remap_file_pages.2 + mtk + Added text to note that start and size are both rounded downwards. + +sched_setparam.2 + mtk + Modified discussion of privileges; added pointer to + sched_setscheduler.2 for a discussion of privileges and + resource limits. + +sched_setscheduler.2 + mtk + Modified discussion of privileges; added discussion of RLIMIT_RTPRIO. + +semctl.2 + mtk + Added IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT descriptions. + +shmctl.2 + mtk + Added IPC_INFO, SHM_INFO, SHM_STAT descriptions. + +sigaction.2 + mtk + Split sigpending(), sigprocmask(), and sigsuspend() out + into separate new pages. + + Other minor changes + + mtk + NOTES: described SA_NODER / sa_mask bug which was present in + all kernels up to and including 2.6.13. + See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112360948603171&w=2 + and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112362164911432&w=2 + List: linux-kernel + Subject: Signal handling possibly wrong + From: Bodo Stroesser + Date: 2005-08-09 17:44:06 + +signal.2 + mtk + Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into + sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2 + +sigpending.2 + mtk + New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2 + Changed CONFORMING TO. + +sigprocmask.2 + mtk + New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2 + Added text on effect of NULL for 'set' argument. + Added text noting effect of ignoring SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL, + and SIGSEGV. + Noted that sigprocmask() can't be used in multithreaded process. + Fixed EINVAL error diagnostic. + Changed CONFORMING TO. + +sigsuspend.2 + mtk + New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2 + Added NOTES on usage. + Added new text to DESCRIPTION. + Changed CONFORMING TO. + +stat.2 + Mike Frysinger + Improve st_blocks description. + +carg.3 + Ramiro Aceves / aeb + Change: + One has carg(z) = atan(creal(z) / cimag(z)) + to: + One has tan(carg(z)) = cimag(z) / creal(z) + + As per Debian bug 326720 + +cmsg.3 + mtk + s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/ (POSIX standard name) + +dlopen.3 + Alain Portal + s/-nostartupfiles/-nostartfiles/ + +getaddrinfo.3 + mtk + Nowadays (since 2.3.4) glibc only sets the first ai_canonname + field if AI_CANONNAME was specified (the current behavior + is all that SUSv3 requires). + + 1,$s/PF_/AF_/g + + Added descriptions of AI_ALL, AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_V4MAPPED, + and AI_NUMERICSERV. + + Some wording and formatting fixes. + +getpwnam.3 + Bernhard R. Link / mtk + Add NOTES text describing relationship of pw_dir and HOME and + pointing out that applications should preferentially + inspect HOME + +inet.3 + Mike Frysinger + Mention "little endian" and "big endian". + Added note about octal and hex interpretation of + numbers-and-dots notation. + +rpc.3 + mtk / Ludovic Courtes + Commented out references to rpc_secure(3) -- we don't currently + have such a page in the man-pages set. + In response to Debian bug report 325115 + +setenv.3 + mtk + glibc 2.3.4 fixed the "name contains '='" bug + +strnlen.3 + Mike Frysinger + Added "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to prototype. + +initrd.4 + Norbert Buchmuller / mtk + Added text noting that the use or real-root-dev for changing + the root device is obsolete, in favour of pivot root. + (However, the page still needs to be rewritten to actually + describe the pivot_root method...) + As per Debian bug 323621. + +proc.5 + mtk + Improve text describing /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files + + Describe /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (new in 2.6.13) + + Added placeholder mention of /proc/zoneinfo (new in 2.6.13) + More needs to be said about this file + + Repaired earlier cut and paste mistake which resulted + in part of the text of this page being duplicated. + +utmp.5 + Mike Frysinger + Added text on biarch details for ut_session and ut_tv. + +capabilities.7 + mtk + Added CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE. + +ip.7 + mtk / Andrew Pimlott + Add a couple of words to make it clear that port is a 16-bit number. + Reformat long source lines (no text changed). + + s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name) + + Hasso Tepper + Fix discussion of IPC_RECVTTL / IP_TTL + +signal.7 + mtk + Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into + sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2 + +socket.7 + mtk + Clarified details of use of SO_PEERCRED. + +tcp.7 + mtk + s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/ (POSIX standard name) + s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name) + +udp.7 + mtk + Added description of UDP_CORK socket option + + s/SOL_UDP/IPPROTO_UDP/ (POSIX standard name) + s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name) diff --git a/man-pages-2.09.Announce b/man-pages-2.09.Announce index cd1d409c9b..a64082e121 100644 --- a/man-pages-2.09.Announce +++ b/man-pages-2.09.Announce @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ RELEASE The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . . - man-pages-2.08.tar.gz - man pages for Linux + man-pages-2.09.tar.gz - man pages for Linux Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in the file "Changes". diff --git a/man-pages-2.09.lsm b/man-pages-2.09.lsm index 071d753637..ffabcb898a 100644 --- a/man-pages-2.09.lsm +++ b/man-pages-2.09.lsm @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ Begin3 Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux -Version: 2.08 -Entered-date: 2005-09-21 +Version: 2.09 +Entered-date: 2005-??-?? Description: Linux and POSIX manual pages Keywords: man pages Author: several Maintained-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Primary-site: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages - 2460k man-pages-2.08.tar.gz + ????k man-pages-2.09.tar.gz Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages Copying-policy: several; for the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT; the other pages are all freely distributable provided |