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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.05 ====================

Released: 2008-07-23, 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>
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
Franck Jousseaume <franck.jousseaume@gmail.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Uli Schlacter <psychon@znc.in>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


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

matherr.3
    mtk, with review by Andries Brouwer
        A description of the SVID-specified mechanism for reporting
        math exceptions.
        See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/266.

math_error.7
    mtk, with review and suggested input from Andries Brouwer
        A description of how math functions report errors.
        See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/249.


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

Various pages
    mtk
        s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively.

Various pages
    mtk
        For consistency with majority usage:
        s/plus infinity/positive infinity/
        s/minus infinity/negative infinity/

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.


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

brk.2
    mtk
        SEE ALSO: add end(3).

open.2
    Brian M. Carlson / mtk
        Remove ambiguity in description of support for O_EXCL on NFS.
        As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491791.

prctl.2
    mtk
        Place options in some semblance of alphabetical order.
        (No content or formatting changes were made.)

cerf.3
    mtk
        Bump version number: these functions are still missing in
        glibc 2.8.

fenv.3
    mtk
         SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).

INFINITY.3
    mtk
         SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).

nan.3
    mtk
         Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece in SYNOPSIS.
         SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).

rpc.3
    mtk / Franck Jousseaume
       Fix errors introduced into a few prototypes when converting
       function declarations to use modern C prototypes in man-pages-2.75.

ipv6
    mtk, after a report from Uli Schlacter
        Document the IPV6_V6ONLY flag.