[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-pages 3.32-1

Andreas Radke a.radke at arcor.de
Fri Dec 10 11:48:20 EST 2010


New upstream release. Please sign off.

-Andy



==================== Changes in man-pages-3.32 ====================

New and rewritten pages
-----------------------

pthread_sigqueue.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        New page documenting ptrhead_sigqueue()
            pthread_sigqueue() is new in glibc 2.11 (requires a kernel
with rt_tgsigqueinfo(), added in Linux 2.6.31).


Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------

readv.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add documentation of preadv() and pwritev()
            The preadv() and pwritev() system calls were added in
            Linux 2.6.30.


chown.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4

fcntl.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add notes on fcntl64()

fstatat.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add NOTES on fstatat64(), the name of the underlying system call

getdents.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Added notes on getdents64()

getgid.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4

getgroups.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4

getresuid.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4

getrlimit.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add example program for prlimit()

getuid.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4

open.2
    Ivana Hutarova Varekova
        O_EXCL can be used without O_CREAT for block devices
            Since Linux 2.6 there is a possibility to use O_EXCL without
            O_CREAT. See patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/8/10/221.

pread.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add notes on pread64() and pwrite64()
            See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23072
    Michael Kerrisk
        SEE ALSO: add readv(3)

sendfile.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add notes on sendfile64()

setfsgid.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4

setfsuid.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4

setgid.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4

setresuid.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4

setreuid.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4

setuid.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4

statfs.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add notes on statfs64() and fstatfs64()

swapon.2
    Hugh Dickins
        Document SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD and discarding of swap pages

truncate.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add notes on truncate64() and ftruncate64()

memcpy.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        Change "should not overlap" to "must not overlap"
            glibc 2.12 changed things so that applications that use
memcpy() on overlapping regions will encounter problems. (The standards
have long said that the behavious is undefined if the memory areas
            overlap.)

            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603144
            In reference of http://lwn.net/Articles/414467/
            and
            http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/15278

pthreads.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        Added description of async-cancel-safe functions	


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