==================== Changes in man-pages-2.74 ====================

Released: 2007-12-20


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

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

Alain PORTAL <alain.portal@free.fr>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
David Brown <lkml@davidb.org>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


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

Various pages
    Alain PORTAL
        Formatting fixes.

Various pages
    mtk / Alain Portal
        s/``...''/"..."/

Various pages
    mtk
        s/epoch/Epoch/

Various pages
    mtk
        Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session
        logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.


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

_syscall.2
    mtk
      Nowadays there is _syscall6() also.

chroot.2
    mtk
        Various minor formatting changes.

epoll_wait.2
    mtk
        Fix types in structs.
        Formatting fixes.

mount.2
    mtk, after a note by Sam Morris
        Clarify that MS_NODIRATIME provides a subset of the
        functionality provided by MS_NOATIME.

sched_setaffinity.2
    mtk
        Minor rearrangement of text.

select_tut.2
    mtk
        Fix (my) typos in argument names.
        Formatting fixes.

spu_create.2
    Jeremy Kerr
        We can use context FDs for the dirfd argument to the *at() syscalls.

times.2
    mtk, after a note from David Brown and Andrew Morton
        http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119447727031225&w=2
        Rework the text describing the return value to be closer
        to the requirements of POSIX.1; move Linux details
        to NOTES and add a warning not to rely on those details.
        Add a warning about the -1 to -4095 bug which results
        in a 41 second window where the glibc wrapper will wrongly
        return -1 indicating an error.
    mtk
        Remove cruft HZ text.
        Clarify text describing return value of clock(3).

getw.3
    Mats Wichmann
        CONFORMING TO: getw() and putw() were in SUSv2, but are not
        in POSIX.1-2001.

hash.3
    mtk / Alain Portal
        Minor rewordings + formatting fixes.

st.4
    Alain Portal / mtk
        Many formatting fixes.
    mtk
        Place ERRORS in alphabetical order.

vcs.4
    Samuel Thibault
        Document VT_GETHIFONTMASK (new in 2.6.18) and add to example program;
        attribute/text characters are in the host byte order.
        as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456437
    mtk
        Minor edits.

bootparam.7
    Alain PORTAL
        Formatting fixes.

inotify.7
    mtk
       Minor heading changes and reformattings.

man-pages.7
    mtk
        Note that code segments, structure definitions, shell session
        logs, should be indented by 4 spaces.

spufs.7
    Jeremy Kerr
        Add a little information about the differences to mbox.
