man-pages-2.76 released

man-pages-2.76 released

[Michael Kerrisk]

Gidday,

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    man-pages-2.76.tar.gz - man pages for Linux

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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.76 ====================

Released: 2008-01-14


Contributors
------------

The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:

Alain Portal <aportal-CD6X2pywdrkGaKE8qFNMvg@public.gmane.org>
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas-kLeDWSohozoJb6fo7hG9ng@public.gmane.org>
Jeremy Kerr <jk-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam-W1w4QoW4mIDgLSHwZvcCBg@public.gmane.org>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust-41N18TsMXrtuMpJDpNschA@public.gmane.org>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


Global changes
--------------

longjmp.3
printf.3
scanf.3
setbuf.3
setjmp.3
sk98lin.4
environ.7
    mtk
        Rework/remove use of ".ad" macros.

ioctl_list.2
mlock.2
mprotect.2
mremap.2
syslog.2
cfree.3
mpool.3
offsetof.3
rpc.3
stdin.3
    mtk
        Fix unbalanced quotes in formatting macros.

ftok.3
    mtk
        s/i-node/inode/, for consistency with other pages and POSIX.1-2001.

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.


Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

chown.2
    mtk
        Minor wording change.

dup.2
    mtk
        Reordered text in DESCRIPTION and added some details for dup2().

open.2
    Trond Myklebust / mtk
        Minor fix to O_EXCL changes in previous release.

gettid.2
    mtk
        Rewrote DESCRIPTION; noted that thread ID is not the same
        thing as a POSIX thread ID.

pipe.2
    mtk
        Rewrote DESCRIPTION; minor additions to EXAMPLE text.

umask.2
    mtk
        A few rewrites and additions.

strptime.3
    Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon / mtk
        Add "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" to example program.

initrd.4
    mtk
        Use quotes more consistently in formatting macros.

random.4
    mtk, after a report by Daniel Kahn Gilmor
        Add 2.6 details for /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize.
        as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459232.

pthreads.7
    mtk
        Minor changes.

spufs.7
    mtk / Jeremy Kerr
        s/MultiSource Synchronization/MultiSource Synchronization (MSS)/


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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