man-pages-2.76 released

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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.76 ====================

Released: 2008-01-14

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

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

Alain Portal <[email protected]> Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <[email protected]> Jeremy Kerr <[email protected]>
Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>

Apologies if I missed anyone!

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

longjmp.3
printf.3
scanf.3
setbuf.3
setjmp.3
sk98lin.4
environ.7
mtk
Rework/remove use of ".ad" macros.

ioctl_list.2
mlock.2
mprotect.2
mremap.2
syslog.2
cfree.3
mpool.3
offsetof.3
rpc.3
stdin.3
mtk
Fix unbalanced quotes in formatting macros.

ftok.3
mtk
s/i-node/inode/, for consistency with other pages and POSIX.1-2001.

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.

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

chown.2
mtk
Minor wording change.

dup.2
mtk
Reordered text in DESCRIPTION and added some details for dup2().

open.2
Trond Myklebust / mtk
Minor fix to O_EXCL changes in previous release.

gettid.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; noted that thread ID is not the same thing as a POSIX thread ID.

pipe.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; minor additions to EXAMPLE text.

umask.2
mtk
A few rewrites and additions.

strptime.3
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon / mtk
Add "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" to example program.

initrd.4
mtk
Use quotes more consistently in formatting macros.

random.4
mtk, after a report by Daniel Kahn Gilmor
Add 2.6 details for /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize. as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459232.

pthreads.7
mtk
Minor changes.

spufs.7
mtk / Jeremy Kerr
s/MultiSource Synchronization/MultiSource Synchronization (MSS)/

Michael Kerrisk
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