==================== Changes in man-pages-3.35 ====================

Released: 2011-10-04, Munich


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

The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
in the changelog below) reports, notes and ideas that have been
incorporated in changes in this release:

Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Kevin Lyda <kevin@ie.suberic.net>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


New and rewritten pages
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recvmmsg.2
    Andi Kleen, Michael Kerrisk
        New man page for recvmmsg(2)

setns.2
    Eric W. Biederman
        New manual page for setns(2)
    Michael Kerrisk
        Various improvements


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

Various pages
    Michael Kerrisk
        Global fix: remove spaces around em-dash
            Normal English typographical convention is not to have
            spaces around em dashes.

Various pages
    Michael Kerrisk
        Global fix: s/null pointer/NULL pointer/

Various pages
    Michael Kerrisk
        Global fix: use ORing
            Use "ORing", not "OR'ing", nor an italic ".IR OR ing".

Various pages
    Michael Kerrisk
        Global fix: consistent use of "null wide character"
            Bring more consistency to the discussion of
            "[terminating] null wide character"
            by writing (at least in the initial use in a page)
            "[terminating] null wide character (L'\0')".

Various pages
    Michael Kerrisk
        Global fix: consistent use of "null byte"
            Bring more consistency to the discussion of
            "[terminating] null byte"
            by writing (at least in the initial use in a page)
            "[terminating] null byte ('\0')".

mount.2, prctl.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        s/task/thread/ for consistency with other pages


Changes to individual pages
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lseek.2
    Guillem Jover
        CONFORMING TO: Note other systems that have SEEK_HOLE+SEEK_DATA

recv.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add mention of recvmmsg(2)

recvmmsg.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        SEE ALSO: add sendmmsg(2)

send.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 adds MSG_NOSIGNAL

sigwaitinfo.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Note that attempts to wait for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP are silently ignored

stat.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Note POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008 requirements for lstat()
    Michael Kerrisk
        Regarding automounter action, add a reference to fstatat(2)
    Michael Kerrisk
        Clean up text describing which POSIX describes S_IF* constants

aio_cancel.3
    Michael Kerrisk  [Jon Grant]
        Clarify meaning of "return status" and "error status"

gets.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks gets() obsolescent
            The page formerly erroneously stated that POSIX.1-2008
            removed the specification of this function.

mbsnrtowcs.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008
            This function is specified in the POSIX.1-2008 revision.
regex.3
    Michael Kerrisk  [Reuben Thomas]
        Change "terminating null" to "terminating null byte"

stpcpy.3
stpncpy.3
    Mike Frysinger
        Note that these functions are in POSIX.1-2008
            Update the "CONFORMING TO" sections of these functions to
            note that they are now part of the POSIX.1-2008 standard.

stpncpy.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        Change "terminating null" to "terminating null byte"

strcpy.3
    Mike Frysinger
        SEE ALSO: Add stpncpy(3)

strdup.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        CONFORMING TO: strndup() is in POSIX.1-2008

wcpcpy.3
wcpncpy.3
wcsnlen.3
wcsnrtombs.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008
            These functions are specified in the POSIX.1-2008 revision.

proc.5
    Eric W. Biederman
        Document /proc/[pid]/ns/
    Michael Kerrisk
        Some edit's to Eric Biederman's /proc/[pid]/ns/ additions

capabilities.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        List setns(2) as an operation allowed by CAP_SYS_ADMIN
