1 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.38 ====================
3 Released: 2012-03-25, Christchurch
9 The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
10 in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
11 incorporated in changes in this release:
13 Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@gmail.com>
14 Artyom Pervukhin <artyom@evasive.ru>
15 Beňas Petr <xbenas00@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
16 Ben Bacarisse <software@bsb.me.uk>
17 Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
18 David Prévot <david@tilapin.org>
19 Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
20 Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
21 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
22 Iain Fraser <iainkfraser@gmail.com>
23 Justin T Pryzby <justinp@norchemlab.com>
24 Kirill Brilliantov <brilliantov@inbox.ru>
25 Mark R Bannister <mark@proseconsulting.co.uk>
26 Matthew Gregan <kinetik@flim.org>
27 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
28 Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
29 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
30 Sergei Zhirikov <sfzhi@yahoo.com>
32 Apologies if I missed anyone!
35 New and rewritten pages
36 -----------------------
40 New page documenting get_nprocs_conf(3) and get_nprocs(3)
42 Some additions and improvements
46 New page documenting malloc_get_state(3) and malloc_set_state(3)
50 New man page for mallopt(3)
54 Complete rewrite of page, adding much more detail
58 New page for scandirat(3) (new in glibc 2.15)
61 Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
62 ---------------------------------------------
66 Document aligned_alloc(3)
67 aligned_alloc() is new in C11.
73 Add documentation of qsort_r(3)
75 Improvements to Mark R Bannister's qsort_r() patch
77 Add VERSIONS section for qsort_r()
85 New link to posix_memalign.3
89 Link to new get_nprocs_conf.3 page
93 Link to new malloc_get_state.3 page
97 New link to posix_memalign.3
105 Global formatting fix: balance .nf/.fi pairs
109 Global fix: place sections in correct order
112 Michael Kerrisk [Justin T Pryzby]
113 Global fix: Remove duplicated words
114 Remove instances of duplicate words found using Justin's
117 for f in man?/*.[1-9]; do
118 grep -HE ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1' "$f" |
119 grep -Evw '(proc|hugetlbfs|XXX*|root|long) *\1';
120 done | grep -E --colo ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1'
124 Correct order of SEE ALSO entries
127 Changes to individual pages
128 ---------------------------
132 PROTOTYPE: Correct header file and feature test macro requirements
136 Strip trailing tabs from source line
137 See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664688
141 Document PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG for PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC
143 Various fixes to recent updates of this page
146 Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
147 PROTOTYPE: Correct header file
151 Remove unimplemented system calls from main syscall list
152 The unimplemented system calls are in any case noted lower down
153 in the page. Also: rearrange the text describing the unimplemented
156 Note a few system calls that were removed in Linux 2.6
158 Add process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2)
161 Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
162 PROTOTYPE: Correct header file
164 PROTOTYPE: Add <fcntl.h> for AT_* constants
168 PROTOTYPE: Add <fcntl.h> for AT_* constants
171 Michael Kerrisk [Tolga Dalman]
172 DESCRIPTION: Add a couple of examples
176 NOTES: Add a short discussion of arenas
178 Replace discussion of MALLOC_CHECK_ with pointer to mallopt(3)
180 SEE ALSO: Add mtrace(3)
181 SEE ALSO: add malloc_get_state(3)
185 Rename memalign() argument
186 Rename "boundary" to "alignment" for consistency
187 with posix_memalign().
189 Improve discussion of feature test macros and header files for valloc(3)
192 Kirill Brilliantov [Sergei Zhirikov]
193 Fix example code, rta_len assignment should use RTA_LENGTH()
194 See also http://bugs.debian.org/655088
198 SEE ALSO: Add scandirat(3)
202 Remove rt_sigqueueinfo from TH line
203 rt_sigqueueinfo() now has its own manual page, so should not
204 be listed in the .TH line of this page.
208 Correct description for Julian 'n' date format
209 The Julian 'n' date format counts starting from 0, not 1.
211 Add some clarifying remarks to discussion of Julian day formats
214 Michael Kerrisk [Iain Fraser]
215 Fix comment on 'sll_hatype' field
218 Michael Kerrisk [Artyom Pervukhin]
219 Correct RFC for TIME_WAIT assassination hazards