| ==================== Changes in man-pages-4.04 ==================== |
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| Released: 2015-12-29, Munich |
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| 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: |
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| Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru> |
| Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl> |
| Archie Cobbs <archie.cobbs@gmail.com> |
| Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> |
| Colin Rice <colin@daedrum.net> |
| Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> |
| Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> |
| Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> |
| Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> |
| Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> |
| H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> |
| Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> |
| Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com> |
| Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org> |
| Laurent Georget <laurent.georget@supelec.fr> |
| Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> |
| Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> |
| Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> |
| Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> |
| Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> |
| Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> |
| Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> |
| Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> |
| Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net> |
| Richard Voigt <richardvoigt@gmail.com> |
| Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> |
| Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
| Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
| Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> |
| Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> |
| Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> |
| Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> |
| Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de> |
| Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> |
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| Apologies if I missed anyone! |
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| New and rewritten pages |
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| futex.2 |
| Michael Kerrisk, Thomas Gleixner, Torvald Riegel [Davidlohr Bueso, Heinrich Schuchardt, Darren Hart, Rusty Russell, Pavel Machek, Rich Felker] |
| Rewrite and massively expand page |
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| membarrier.2 |
| Mathieu Desnoyers [Michael Kerrisk] |
| New page documenting membarrier() system call |
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| Newly documented interfaces in existing pages |
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| mlock.2 |
| Eric B Munson [Michal Hocko, Vlastimil Babka, Michael Kerrisk] |
| Document mlock2(2) and MCL_ONFAULT |
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| New and changed links |
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| mlock2.2 |
| Eric B Munson |
| New link to mlock.2 |
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| Global changes |
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| Various pages |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| ERRORS: standardize text for EMFILE error |
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| Various pages |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| ERRORS: standardize error text for ENOTSOCK error |
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| Various pages |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| ERRORS: standardize text for ENFILE error |
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| Changes to individual pages |
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| clock_getres.2 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| SEE ALSO: add vdso(7) |
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| epoll_create.2 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| ERRORS: add another EMFILE error case |
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| fanotify_init.2 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| ERRORS: add an EMFILE error case |
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| fork.2 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Child of MT-process is restricted to async-signal-safe functions |
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| getcpu.2 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| SEE ALSO: add vdso(7) |
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| getrlimit.2 |
| Michael Kerrisk [Lennart Poettering] |
| The init of measurement for RLIMIT_RSS is bytes, not pages |
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| get_robust_list.2 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Reword EINVAL error text |
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| gettimeofday.2 |
| Carlos O'Donell |
| Expand on the historical meaning of tz_dsttime |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| SEE ALSO: add vdso(7) |
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| inotify_init.2 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| ERRORS: add an EMFILE error case |
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| personality.2 |
| Dmitry V. Levin |
| Note kernel and glibc versions that introduced this system call |
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| poll.2 |
| Richard Voigt |
| timeout_ts is a pointer, so use -> not . for member access |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Shorten name of timeout argument for ppoll() |
| The name is overly long, and does not hint at the fact |
| that this argument is a pointer. Fix this by renaming: |
| s/timeout_ts/tmo_p/ |
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| sendfile.2 |
| Laurent Georget |
| Document more ERRORS |
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| sigreturn.2 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| SEE ALSO: add vdso(7) |
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| socketcall.2 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Since Linux 4.3, x86-32 provides direct system calls for the sockets API |
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| time.2 |
| Zack Weinberg |
| Explain why the glibc time() wrapper never sets 'errno' |
| Michael Kerrisk [H.J. Lu] |
| Where time() is provided by vDSO, an invalid address may give SIGSEGV |
| Michael Kerrisk [Paul Eggert] |
| Describe EOVERFLOW details |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| SEE ALSO: add vdso(7) |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Rename 't' argument to 'tloc' |
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| dlerror.3 |
| Michael Kerrisk [Jonny Grant] |
| Clarify that the string returned by dlerror() is null terminated |
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| dlopen.3 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Include a shell session showing build/run in EXAMPLE |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Change arguments to main() to "void" in EXAMPLE |
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| drand48.3 |
| Michael Kerrisk [Vincent Lefevre] |
| Correct descriptions of ranges returned by these functions |
| See http://bugs.debian.org/803459 |
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| errno.3 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Note probable cause of ENFILE error |
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| fnmatch.3 |
| Pádraig Brady |
| Describe the FNM_EXTMATCH flag and pattern syntax |
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| iconv.3 |
| Andries E. Brouwer |
| NOTES: describe correct usage for flushing partially buffered input |
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| random_r.3 |
| Michael Kerrisk [Archie Cobbs] |
| Clarify need to use initstate_r() |
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| tzset.3 |
| Carlos O'Donell |
| Clarify "daylight" and remove erroneous note |
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| random.4 |
| Michael Kerrisk [Tom Gundersen] |
| Rework example scripts to assume 'poolsize' unit is bits, not bytes |
| Michael Kerrisk [Walter Harms] |
| Use modern command substitution syntax in shell session log |
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| proc.5 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Reaching /proc/sys/fs/file-max limit normally produces an ENFILE error |
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| futex.7 |
| Heinrich Schuchardt |
| SEE ALSO updates |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Note some other locking primitives that are built with futexes |
| Heinrich Schuchardt |
| NPTL, avoid abbreviation |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Note that a futex is 4 bytes on all platforms |
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| vdso.7 |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Add note on strace(1) and vDSO |
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| ld.so.8 |
| H.J. Lu [Michael Kerrisk] |
| Document LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Clarify setting of LD_BIND_NOT |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Clarify setting of LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Clarify setting of LD_TRACE_PRELINKING |
| Michael Kerrisk |
| Clarify some details for LD_SHOW_AUXV |
