[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
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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
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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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