man-pages-2.77 released

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man-pages-2.77.tar.gz - man pages for Linux

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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.77 ====================

Released: 2008-01-31

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

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

Pavel Heimlich <[email protected]> Phil Endecott <[email protected]> Thomas Huriaux <[email protected]> Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> WANG Cong <[email protected]>

Apologies if I missed anyone!

Global changes
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stdarg.3
bootparam.7
Thomas Huriaux
Fix broken use of single quotes at start of line,
as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462636

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.

New pages
---------

remove_COLOPHON.sh
mtk
Script to remove the COLOPHON section from the man pages provided as command-line arguments. This is useful to remove the COLOPHON sections from all of the man pages in two different release trees in order to do a "diff -ruN" to see the "real" differences between the trees.

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

fcntl.2
mtk
Replace tables with .TP macros.

fork.2
mtk
Added discussion of directory streams. Removed "#include <sys/types>" from SYNOPSIS. Changed authorship notice.

futex.2
mtk
Add ENOSYS error to errors.
Phil Endecott
Explicitly describe return value in the event of an error.

inotify_add_watch.2
mtk
Minor wording changes.

splice.2
WANG Cong
Fix types for 2 and 4 arguments in splice prototype.

wait.2
Phil Endecott
Clarify description of return value for WNOHANG.

tkill.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by tgkill().

alloca.3
mtk
Change description in NAME section.
Various rewrites and additions (including notes on longjmp() and SIGSEGV).
mtk / Vincent Lefevre
Weaken warning against use of alloca(), and
point out some cases where it can be useful;
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461100.

bootparam.7
Pavel Heimlich
Remove junk line.

inotify.7
mtk
Replace tables with .TP macros.

Michael Kerrisk
Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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