==================== Changes in man-pages-3.02 ====================

Released: 2008-07-02, Konolfingen


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

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

Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


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

clock_nanosleep.2
    mtk
        A description of the clock_nanosleep() system call,
        which was added in kernel 2.6.

getgrouplist.3
    mtk
        A near complete rewrite, including additional information and
        a new example program.

getutmp.3
    mtk
        Documents getutmp(3) and getutmpx(3).

gnu_get_libc_version.3
    mtk
        Documents gnu_get_libc_version(3) and gnu_get_libc_release(3).

sigwait.3
    mtk
        Documents sigwait(3).

shm_overview.7
    mtk
        An overview of the POSIX shared memory API.


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

updwtmp.3
    mtk
        Document updwtmpx(3).


New links
---------

getutmpx.3
    mtk
        Link to getutmp.3.

gnu_get_libc_release.3
    mtk
        Link to gnu_get_libc_version.3

updwtmpx.3
    mtk
        Link to updwtmp.3

utmpxname.3
    mtk
        Link to getutent.3.

utmpx.5
    mtk
        Link to utmp.5.


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

Various pages
    mtk
        s/user name/username/

Various pages
    mtk
        s/host name/hostname/


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

fchmodat.2
    Alain Portal
        SEE ALSO: add symlink.7.  (3.01 changelog wrongly said this
        had been done.)

io_setup.2
    Alain Portal
        Remove superfluous text from RETURN VALUE.

mmap.2
    mtk
        SEE ALSO: Add mmap(2), shm_overview(7).

shmget.2
shmop.2
    mtk
        SEE ALSO: add shm_overview(7).

sigreturn.2
    mtk
        Added a bit more detail on what sigreturn() actually does.

signalfd.2
sigsuspend.2
    mtk
        SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3).

sigwaitinfo.2
    mtk
        Describe behavior when multiple threads are blocked in
        sigwaitinfo()/sigtimedwait().
        SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3).

dirfd.3
    mtk
        RETURN VALUE: describe return value on success.
        Add an ERRORS section documenting POSIX.1-specified errors.

getaddrinfo.3
    mtk, after a note by Stephane Chazelas
        getaddrinfo() supports specifying IPv6 scope-IDs.

getlogin.3
    mtk
        ERRORS: add ENOTTY.
        SEE ALSO: add utmp(5).

getutent.3
    WANG Cong
        utmpname() does return a value.
    mtk
        Add paragraph to start of DESCRIPTION recommending
        use of POSIX.1 "utmpx" functions.
        CONFORMING TO: mention utmpxname().
        Add an ERRORS section.
        There are no utmpx equivalents of the _r reentrant functions.
        Clarify discussion of return values.
        Add pointer to definition of utmp structure in utmp(5).
        Clarify discussion of utmpx file on other systems (versus
        Linux situation).

getutent.3
    mtk
        SEE ALSO: add getutmp(3)

inet_pton.3
    Stephane Chazelas
        Fix error in description of IPv6 presentation format:
        s/x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x/x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x/.

setbuf.3
    Reuben Thomas / mtk
        Fix confused wording for return value of setvbuf().
        Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488104.
    mtk
        Other minor rewordings.

shm_open.3
    mtk
        SEE ALSO: add shm_overview(7).

random.4
    mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
        Slight rewording to make life easier for non-native English
        speakers.

utmp.5
    mtk
        Add discussion of POSIX.1 utmpx specification.
        Provide a little more detail on fields of utmp structure.
        Added comments to macros for ut_type field.
        Correct the description of the ut_id field.
    mtk
        Consolidate duplicated information about ut_tv and ut_session
        on biarch platforms.
    mtk
        Move some text from CONFORMING TO to NOTES.
        Removed some crufty text.
        SEE ALSO: add login(3), logout(3), logwtmp(3).
        UT_LINESIZE is 32 (not 12).
    mtk
        SEE ALSO: add getutmp(3)

man-pages.7
    mtk
        Enhanced the discussion of font conventions.

signal.7
    mtk
        Note that the delivery order of multiple pending standard
        signals is unspecified.
        SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3).
