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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2009-09-30 03:25:50 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2009-09-30 03:25:50 +0200 |
| commit | a63a7bcd8cfdb8e4eddd512fdaf9cf9cc0c097d9 (patch) | |
| tree | 68f9ada0833603b7b9f757cdfff78e2c039c942a | |
| parent | 576b0bccd1d120880c5d3bbf252c8ac66245103a (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-a63a7bcd8cfdb8e4eddd512fdaf9cf9cc0c097d9.tar.gz | |
Changes: Update for 3.23 release
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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1 files changed, 167 insertions, 16 deletions
@@ -9,26 +9,177 @@ Contributors The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: +Aaron Gardner <aaron.j.gardner@gmail.com> +Andrey Vihrov <vihrov@gmail.com> +Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> +Georg Sauthoff <gsauthof@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> +Leslie P. Polzer <sky@viridian-project.de> +Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de> +Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk> +Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> +Nicolas Fran�ois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net> +Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> +Siward de Groot <siward@ziggo.nl> +rui rlex <rui.rlex@gmail.com> Apologies if I missed anyone! -New and rewritten pages ------------------------ - - -Newly documented interfaces in existing pages ---------------------------------------------- - - -New and changed links ---------------------- - - -Global changes --------------- - - Changes to individual pages --------------------------- +execve.2 +pipe.2 +tee.2 +fmemopen.3 +mq_notify.3 +qsort.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Replace use of assert() by code that checks argc + See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13569 + + As noted by Andrey: + The purpose of the assert macro, defined in <assert.h>, + is to provide a tool to check for programming mistakes + or program logic errors. However, the assert macro must + never be used to perform checks for run time errors, + since, with the NDEBUG macro defined, expressions within + the assert macro invocations are not evaluated/checked + for, resulting in behavior that was not originally intended. + ... + The pages affected in the core package are + + execve(2) + pipe(2) + tee(2) + fmemopen(3) + mq_notify(3) + qsort(3) + +getrusage.2 + Michael Kerrisk + ru_inblock and ru_oublock are now implemented + These fields of the rusage structure are filled in since + Linux 2.6.22. + +mmap.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Add brief documentation of MAP_HUGETLB + This flag is new in 2.6.32, and serves a similar + purpose to the shmget() SHM_HUGETLB flag. + +open.2 + Christoph Hellwig + add some comments on O_SYNC and friends + +poll.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Clarify wording describing of 'nfds' argument. + reported by: rui rlex <rui.rlex@gmail.com> + +semctl.2 + Nicolas Fran�ois + Remove some redundant words + +setpgid.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Add an explanation of orphaned process groups + +splice.2 +tee.2 +vmsplice.2 + Mark Hills + Fix return type + Since glibc 2.7, the return type for these functions + is ssize_t (formerly it was long). + +stat.2 + Nicolas Fran�ois + Fix small bug in example program + Since it is a failure, EXIT_FAILURE looks more appropriate + than EXIT_SUCCESS. + +umount.2 + Michael Kerrisk + glibc only exposes MNT_DETACH and MNT_EXPIRE since version 2.11 + See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10092 + +exit.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Add a pointer to explanation of orphaned process groups in setpgid(2) + +fflush.3 + Michael Kerrisk + fflush() discards buffered input + +ffs.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Clarify that ffsl() and ffsll() are GNU extensions + +getaddrinfo.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Note nonstandard assumed hints.ai_flags value when hints is NULL + When hints is NULL, glibc assumes hints.ai_flags is + AI_V4MAPPED|AI_ADDRCONFIG whereas POSIX says 0. + According to Ulrich Drepper, glibc's behavior is better. + +getmntent.3 + Mike Frysinger + setmntent() argument is 'filename' not 'fp' + The description of setmntent() formerly used the wrong + argument name. + +posix_fallocate.3 + Nicolas Fran�ois + Fix reference to POSIX.1-2008 + The sentence mentions twice POSIX.1-2001. + I guess the second one should be POSIX.1-2008. + This should be checked in the standard. + +setenv.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Improve ERRORS section + Add ENOMEM error; improve EINVAL description. Also, make + RETURN VALUE section a little more accurate in its mention + of errno. + +strftime.3 + Nicolas Fran�ois + Fix error in description: s/Monday/Thursday/ + +proc.5 + Nicolas Fran�ois + Fix page cross reference + max_user_watches is better explained in epoll(7) than inotify(7). + +proc.5 + Michael Kerrisk + dmesg is in section 1, not section 8 + +capabilities.7 + Michael Kerrisk + FS UID manipulations affect CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE and CAP_MKNOD + Nowadays, file system UID manipulations also affect + CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE (since 2.6.3) and CAP_MKNOD (since 2.6.29). + +capabilities.7 + Michael Kerrisk + Fix version number for CAP_MKNOD in DS UID manipulations + A recent patch said "since 2.6.29". It should have + been "since 2.6.30". + +capabilities.7 + Nicolas Fran�ois + Reword a bad sentence in description of capability bounding set. + +mq_overview.7 + Michael Kerrisk + Change documented ranges for msg_max and msgsize_max + Linux 2.6.28 changed the permissible ranges for + these /proc files. + +tcp.7 +udp.7 + Nicolas Fran�ois + Replace references to syctl interfaces with /proc |