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@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Marty Leisner <leisner@rochester.rr.com>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
+Tim Stoakes <tim@stoakes.net>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
@@ -36,6 +37,22 @@ packet.7
mtk
Replace "(il)legal" by "permitted" or "valid".
+read.2
+utime.2
+filesystems.5
+packet.7
+ mtk
+ s/time stamp/timestamp/, for consistency with majority use
+ in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
+
+Various pages
+ mtk
+ Various pages that I wrote carried a slightly modified version
+ of the "verbatim" license. In the interests of minimizing
+ lincense proliferation, I've reverted the modified form
+ so that the license is exactly the same as on other pages
+ carrying the verbatim license.
+
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
@@ -49,20 +66,91 @@ random_r.3
random(3), srandom(3), initstate(3), and setstate(3).
+New links
+---------
+
+lutimes.3
+ mtk
+ Link to futimes.3.
+
+initstate_r.3
+setstate_r.3
+srandom_r.3
+ mtk
+ Links to random_r.3.
+
+daylight.3
+timezone.3
+tzname.3
+ mtk
+ Links to tzset.3.
+
+isnanf.3
+isnanl.3
+ mtk
+ Links to finite.3.
+
+encrypt_r.3
+setkey_r.3
+ mtk
+ Links to encrypt.3.
+
+
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
+epoll_ctl.2
+ mtk
+ Added portability note to BUGS text for EPOLL_CTL_DEL.
+
+mount.2
+ mtk
+ Minor wording change.
+
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk, with input from Ingo Molnar
Add description of SCHED_IDLE policy (new in 2.6.23).
Tweak description of SCHED_BATCH.
setpriority.2
- mtk, after a note from Info Molnar
+ mtk, after a note from Ingo Molnar
Add text in NOTES about the punchier effect of nice values in
kernel 2.6.23 and later.
Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-nice-design.txt to SEE ALSO list.
+stat.2
+ mtk
+ Minor wording change.
+
+utime.2
+ mtk
+ Change description in NAME line ("or" is not correct: these calls
+ always change *both* timestamps).
+
+futimes.3
+ mtk
+ Add documentation of lutimes(), which appeared in glibc 2.6.
+ mtk
+ Change description in NAME line ("or" is not correct: these calls
+ always change *both* timestamps).
+ futimes() did not come from 4.2BSD. (It came from FreeBSD; see
+ the FreeBSD man page.)
+getenv.3
+ mtk
+ Noted that caller must not modify returned value string.
+ Noted that getenv() is not reentrant: the buffer may be statically
+ allocated and overwritten by later calls to getenv(), putenv(),
+ setenv(), or unsettenv().
+ Other minor rewrites.
+
+gethostbyname.3
+ mtk
+ Add 'h_errno' to NAME list.
+
+getopt.3
+ mtk
+ Add 'optarg', 'optind', 'opterr', and 'optopt' to NAME section.
+
mq_open.3
mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
@@ -100,63 +188,18 @@ sem_wait.3
Add text to SYNOPSIS noting the need to link with "-lrt" or
"-pthread".
+setenv.3
+ mtk
+ setenv() copies 'name' and 'value' (contrat with putenv()).
+ unsetenv() of a nonexistent variable does nothing and is
+ considered successful.
+ Noted that setenv() and unsetenv() need not be reentrant.
+
shm_open.3
mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
needed for 'mode' constants.
-rand.3
- Tolga Dalman / aeb / mtk
- Remove outdated warning in NOTES; encourage the use of
- random(3) instead.
-
-random.3
- aeb / mtk / Tolga Dalman
- Recommend use or random_r(3) for multithreaded applications
- that need independent, reproducible sequences of random numbers.
-
- Move references to "The Art of Computer Programming" and
- "Numerical Recipes", formerly in rand(3), to this page.
-
- Add drand48(93) to SEE ALSO list.
-
-sem_close.3
-sem_destroy.3
-sem_getvalue.3
-sem_init.3
-sem_open.3
-sem_post.3
-sem_unlink.3
-sem_wait.3
- mtk, after a note from Marty Leisner
- Add text to SYNOPSIS noting the need to link with "-lrt" or
- "-pthread".
-
-shm_open.3
-
-rand.3
- Tolga Dalman / aeb / mtk
- Remove outdated warning in NOTES; encourage the use of
- random(3) instead.
-
-random.3
- aeb / mtk / Tolga Dalman
- Recommend use or random_r(3) for multithreaded applications
- that need independent, reproducible sequences of random numbers.
-
- Move references to "The Art of Computer Programming" and
- "Numerical Recipes", formerly in rand(3), to this page.
-
- Add drand48(93) to SEE ALSO list.
-
-sem_close.3
-sem_destroy.3
-sem_getvalue.3
-sem_init.3
-sem_open.3
-sem_post.3
-sem_unlink.3
-sem_wait.3
- mtk, after a note from Marty Leisner
- Add text to SYNOPSIS noting the need to link with "-lrt" or
- "-pthread".
+undocumented.3
+ mtk
+ initstate_r(3), setkey_r(3), setstate_r(3) are now documented.