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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.78 ====================
Released: 2008-02-15
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Greg Banks <gnb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
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sigaction.2
signal.2
sigwaitinfo.2
signal.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO entry referring to new signalfd.2 page.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
New pages
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eventfd.2
mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
Documents the eventfd() system call, new in 2.6.22.
signalfd.2
mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
Documents the signalfd() system call, new in 2.6.22.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
futex.2
mtk / Phil Endecott
Improve wording describing error returns.
open.2
Greg Banks
Greatly expand the detail on O_DIRECT.
reboot.2
mtk / Michael Tokarev
Fix RETURN VALUE description: in some cases reboot() does not
return.
mtk
Rename the 'flag' argument to 'cmd', since that is more meaningful,
and also what is used in the kernel source.
Other minor wording changes.
--
Michael Kerrisk
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http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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