[arch-dev-public] [signoff] man-pages 3.26-1

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Wed Sep 8 08:29:07 EDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 7 September 2010 21:31, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
>> Upstream update + include again some section 2 pages that were part of
>> module-init-tools in the past. Fixes #20645.
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>> ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.26 ====================
>>
>> Released: 2010-09-04, Munich
>>
>>
>> Contributors
>> ------------
>>
>> The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
>> been incorporated in changes in this release:
>>
>> Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>
>> Brian Sutin <Brian.Sutin at hs.utc.com>
>> Denis Barbier <bouzim at gmail.com>
>> Guillem Jover <guillem at hadrons.org>
>> Jianhua Li <jhlicc at gmail.com>
>> Linus Nilsson <lajnold at gmail.com>
>> Lenaic Huard <lenaic.huard at laposte.net>
>> mac at mcrowe.com
>> Martin Schulze <joey at infodrom.org>
>> Maxin John <maxin.john at gmail.com>
>> Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages at gmail.com>
>> Nicholas Hunt <nhunt at cs.washington.edu>
>> Peng Haitao <penght at cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>
>> Przemyslaw Szczepaniak <Przemyslaw.Szczepaniak at imgtec.com>
>> Scott Walls <sawalls at umich.edu>
>> TAN Yee Fan <tanyeefa at comp.nus.edu.sg>
>> Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu at intel.com>
>> Yitzchak Gale <gale at sefer.org>
>> Yuri Kozlov <yuray at komyakino.ru>
>>
>> Apologies if I missed anyone!
>>
>> Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
>> ---------------------------------------------
>>
>> eventfd.2
>>    Michael Kerrisk
>>        Document EFD_SEMAPHORE
>>            Document the EFD_SEMAPHORE flag, added in kernel 2.6.30.
>>            Also restructured some parts of the text to fit with the
>>            addition of the EFD_SEMAPHORE text.
>>
>>
>> Global changes
>> --------------
>>
>> getaddrinfo.3
>> getipnodebyname.3
>> st.4
>>    Michael Kerrisk
>>        s/logical OR/bitwise OR/
>>
>>
>> Changes to individual pages
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> clock_nanosleep.2
>>    Michael Kerrisk
>>        Fix discussion of return value when interrupted by a signal
>>
>> epoll_ctl.2
>>    Yuri Kozlov
>>        Small fix to types in data structures
>>
>> eventfd.2
>>    Alexander Shishkin
>>        Clarified close-on-exec behavior
>>
>> madvise.2
>>    Michael Kerrisk
>>        Improve discussion of MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE
>>
>> mkdir.2
>>    Michael Kerrisk
>>        Add EMLINK error to ERRORS
>>
>> mq_getsetattr.2
>> mq_close.3
>> mq_getattr.3
>> mq_notify.3
>> mq_send.3
>> mq_unlink.3
>>    Lnac Huard
>>        Fix return type in SYNOPSIS (s/mqd_t/int/)
>>
>> recv.2
>> send.2
>>    Michael Kerrisk
>>        Remove obsolete reference to glibc version in NOTES
>>
>> recv.2
>> send.2
>>    Nicholas Hunt
>>        Adjust type shown for msg_controllen to glibc reality
>>            This patch fixes the type of msg_controllen in the struct
>> msghdr definition given in send.2 and recv.2 to match the definition in
>>            glibc and the kernel.
>>
>> select.2
>>    Michael Kerrisk
>>        Update NOTES on old glibc pselect()
>>            Make it clear that modern glibc uses the kernel pselect()
>>            on systems where it is available.
>>            See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14411
>>
>> statfs.2
>>    Guillem Jover
>>        Fix copy & paste error for __SWORD_TYPE definition
>>
>> sysfs.2
>>    Michael Kerrisk
>>        Clarify that this syscall is obsolete.
>>            And strengthen recommendation to use /proc/filesystems
>> instead.
>>
>> write.2
>>    Michael Kerrisk
>>        Add EDESTADDRREQ error
>>
>> a64l.3
>>    Peng Haitao
>>        Fix error in NOTES, s/a64l/l64a/
>>
>> error.3
>>    Linus Nilsson
>>        Change "perror" to "strerror" in DESCRIPTION of error()
>>
>> mq_send.3
>>    Michael Kerrisk
>>        Fix EAGAIN description (s/empty/full)
>>
>> initrd.4
>>    Yuri Kozlov
>>        Fix IP address in explanation of NFS example
>>
>> tzfile.5
>>    Michael Kerrisk
>>        Add information on version 2 format timezone files
>>            Updated using information from the tzcode 2010l release at
>>            ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub.
>>            (It's an open question whether or not a version of tzfile.5
>>            should live independently in man-pages. It was added to the
>>            man-pages set many years ago. For now, I'll follow a
>>            conservative course that causes least pain to downstream,
>>            by continuing to maintain a separate copy in man-pages.)
>>
>>            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594219
>>
>
> Signoff i686
> I also confirm #20645 is fixed here

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