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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2006-02-09 19:11:41 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2006-02-09 19:11:41 +0000
commit8bdae7c45ca0fbb0f61ac43b1dc930da34ca8785 (patch)
treea592274b65c04b4f4e118c186ff63e5ca88edb79
parent0b3189d89aceda0c27ae8cd197d44d0e661f1f9e (diff)
ready for 2.23man-pages-2.23
-rw-r--r--Changes122
-rw-r--r--HOWTOHELP6
-rw-r--r--man-pages-2.23.lsm4
3 files changed, 124 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 8ac31555..a905f351 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.23 ====================
-Released: 2006-??-??
+Released: 2006-02-10
Contributors
------------
@@ -8,7 +8,19 @@ Contributors
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
+Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
+Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>
+Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Luc Van Oostenryck <lkml@looxix.net>
+Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
+Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
+Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
+Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
+Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
+Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
@@ -20,7 +32,115 @@ places.
New pages
---------
+inotify_init.2
+inotify_add_watch.2
+inotify_rm_watch.2
+ Robert Love, with some additions by mtk.
+ New pages describing the inotify API.
+
+mbind.2
+get_mempolicy.2
+set_mempolicy.2
+ Andi Kleen, with additional work by mtk
+ New pages describing the NUMA memory allocation policy API.
+
+rtc.4
+ Urs Thuermann, with additoonal work by mtk
+ New page describing the real-time clock driver.
+
+inotify.7
+ mtk
+ Overview of the inotify API.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
+clone.2
+ Andi Kleen
+ On x86, clone() should not be called through vsyscall,
+ but directly through "int $0x80".
+
+fcntl.2
+ mtk
+ Small wording changes.
+
+ Added cross-ref to inotify.7 under the description of dnotify.
+
+kill.2
+ mtk / Britton Leo Kerin
+ Small wording change under NOTES to clarify
+ what happens when a process sends a signal to itself.
+ See Debian bug 350236.
+
+mlock.2
+ mtk / Matthias Andree
+ Added BUGS txt on interaction between MCL_FUTURE and
+ RLIMIT_MEMLOCK.
+ See the following LKML thread:
+ http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113801392825023&w=2
+ "Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK"
+
+msgop.2
+ mtk / Samuel Thibault
+ Rewrote declaration of 'msgp' to be "void *" in response
+ to Debian bug report 350884.
+ Various other wording fixes.
+
+open.2
+ mtk
+ Clarify distinction between "file creation flags" and
+ "file status flags".
+
+read.2
+ Justin Pryzby
+ Add SEE ALSO for pread(2).
+ As per Debian bug 351873.
+
+sched_setaffinity.2
+ mtk
+ Major rewrite.
+
+select.2
+ mtk
+ Added return types to prototypes for FD_SET(), FD_CLR(),
+ FD_ZERO, and FD_ISSET().
+ Other minor wording changes.
+
+read.2
+ mtk
+ Add SEE ALSO for pwrite(2).
+ (Analogous with read.2 change above.)
+
+errno.3
+ Kurt Wall / mtk
+ Add Linux specific errors to this page.
+
+localeconv.3
+ mtk
+ Added cross-ref to locale.7 for 'struct lconv' defn.
+ Other minor wording changes.
+ Martin (Joey) Schulze
+ Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
+ As per Debian bug 351831.
+
+scanf.3
+ mtk / Justin Pryzby
+ Minor formatting & wording fixes.
+
+setlocale.3
+ Martin (Joey) Schulze
+ Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
+ As per Debian bug 351831.
+
+proc.5
+ mtk
+ Migrated description of inotify files to the new inotify.7 page.
+
+ascii.7
+ Dan Jacobson / mtk
+ Add text describing characters 001 to 037.
+ See Debian bug 342173.
+
+locale.7
+ mtk
+ Minor wording and formatting changes.
diff --git a/HOWTOHELP b/HOWTOHELP
index a4a6293b..7edc468b 100644
--- a/HOWTOHELP
+++ b/HOWTOHELP
@@ -246,16 +246,11 @@ add_key(2)
keyctl(2)
request_key(2)
-inotify_add_watch(2)
-inotify_init(2)
-inotify_rm_watch(2)
-
delete_module(2)
init_module(2)
create_module(2) (Present up to and including kernel 2.4, absent in 2.6)
query_module(2) (Present up to and including kernel 2.4, absent in 2.6)
-
ioprio_get(2) (new in kernel 2.6.13)
ioprio_set(2) (new in kernel 2.6.13)
@@ -292,6 +287,7 @@ adjtime(3)
dlinfo(3) (Solaris and FreeBSD have a similar function.)
dladdr1(3)
dlmopen(3) (Since glibc 2.3.4; probably to be documented on dlopen.3 page)
+memmem(3) (GNU extension)
readdir_r(3) (probably as additional text in readdir.3)
sigstack(3)
sigwait(3)
diff --git a/man-pages-2.23.lsm b/man-pages-2.23.lsm
index 799c0410..9d2b5491 100644
--- a/man-pages-2.23.lsm
+++ b/man-pages-2.23.lsm
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
Begin3
Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux
Version: 2.23
-Entered-date: 2005-??-??
+Entered-date: 2005-02-10
Description: Linux and POSIX manual pages
Keywords: man pages
Author: several
Maintained-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Primary-site: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages
- ????k man-pages-2.23.tar.gz
+ 2512k man-pages-2.23.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
Copying-policy: several; for the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT;
the other pages are all freely distributable provided