Gidday
I've released man-pages-3.09.
This release is now available for download at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
This release is now available for download at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
The online changelog is available at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html
(an overview of the changes in this release is blogged at
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2008/09/man-pages-309-is-released.html)
and the current version of the pages is browsable at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
An abridged version of the changes in this release that may be of
interest to readers of this list is provided below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.09 ====================
Released: 2008-09-10, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Bernd Eckenfels <be-mail2006@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Bruno Haible <bruno@xxxxxxxxx>
Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@xxxxxxxxx>
Christopher Head <chead@xxxxxxxxx>
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Joe Korty <joe.korty@xxxxxxxx>
Marko Kreen <markokr@xxxxxxxxx>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Michael Schurter <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Mike Bianchi <MBianchi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suka <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Timothy S. Nelson <wayland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Török Edwin <edwintorok@xxxxxxxxx>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
fopencookie.3
mtk
Document fopencookie(3), a library function that allows
custom implementation of a stdio stream.
networks.5
Martin (Joey) Schulze, with a few light edits by mtk
Documents the /etc/networks file.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
s/time zone/timezone/ for consistency across pages and
with POSIX.1.
kill.2
sigaction.2
sigpending.2
sigprocmask.2
sigsuspend.2
confstr.3
ctermid.3
ctime.3
ferror.3
flockfile.3
fopen.3
getaddrinfo.3
getgrnam.3
getnameinfo.3
getopt.3
getpwnam.3
longjmp.3
popen.3
rand.3
readdir.3
setjmp.3
sigsetops.3
sigwait.3
strtok.3
tzset.3
unlocked_stdio.3
mtk
Add/fix feature test macro requirements.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fcntl.2
mtk, after a note by Mike Bianchi
More clearly and consistently describe whether
or not the third argument to fcntl() is required,
and what its type should be.
mtk
Move description of negative l_len from NOTES, integrating
it into the discussion of file locking.
Minor rewrites of the text on file locking.
getrusage.2
Bernd Eckenfels
SEE ALSO: Add clock(3), clock_gettime(3).
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353475
ioctl_list.2
mtk
Remove old sentence about where to send updates for this page.
Add more detail on mount options that prevent updates to atime.
sched_setscheduler.2
Carsten Emde
Update kernel version numbers relating to real-time support.
stat.2
H. Peter Anvin
Note that lstat() will generally not trigger automounter
action, whereas stat() will.
clock.3
Bernd Eckenfels
SEE ALSO: Add clock_gettime(3).
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353475
clock_getres.3
Tolga Dalman / mtk
Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS; remove now redundant
sentence mentioning librt from NOTES.
getdate.3
mtk
Rewrite description of getdate_r() and integrate into main text
(rather than describing in NOTES).
Other parts rewritten for greater clarity.
Make it clearer in the main text that glibc does not implement %Z;
remove discussion of that point from NOTES.
Added an example program.
hsearch.3
mtk
Noted that table size as specified by 'nel' is immutable.
Described differences between hsearch() and hsearch_r().
Added missing pieces to RETURN VALUE.
Added a number of new entries under ERRORS.
NOTES: added some basic advice on sizing the hash table;
noted that when a table is destroyed, the caller is responsible
for freeing the buffers pointed to by 'key' and 'data' fields.
One of the BUGS was fixed in glibc 2.3.
Rewrote and clarified various other pieces.
Rename arguments for reentrant functions, using same name as
glibc headers: s/ret/retval/; s/tab/htab/.
mtk, after a suggestion by Timothy S. Wayland
Integrate discussion of reentrant functions into main discussion
(rather than as a short paragraph at the end).
iconv.3
Bruno Haible
Describe "shift sequence" input.
ptsname.3
sukadev
Fix return type of ptsname_r() in SYNOPSIS.
readdir.3
H. Peter Anvin
s/stat(2)/lstat(2)/ when discussing d_type (since we
are talking about a case where we might be interested to
whether the file itself is a symbolic link).
sigsetops.3
Chris Head, signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Fix typo: s/sigdelset/sigorset/
proc.5
Mats Wichmann / mtk
s/\[number]/[pid]/ in file names for /proc/PID files.
And similar changes for task/[tid] sub-directories.
mtk / Mats Wichmann
In the description if /proc/[pid]/environ, remove reference to
lilo(8)/grub(8) since there seems to be nothing in those pages
that related to this /proc file.
Michael Schurter / mtk
Remove sentence wrongly saying that /proc/meminfo reports
info in bytes;
see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462969
mtk
Note that /proc/meminfo reports system-wide memory usage
statistics.
Joe Korty
Document new fields in /proc/interrupts that were added in
Linux 2.6.24.
unix.7
Marko Kreen
Since glibc 2.8, _GNU_SOURCE must be defined in order to get
the definition of the ucred structure from <sys/socket.h>.
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