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1.116. man-pages
1.116.1. RHBA-2009:1574: bug fix update
Note
This update has already been released (prior to the GA of this release) as FASTRACK
RHBA-2009:1574
errata
An updated man-pages package that corrects numerous documentation errors and omissions is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
The man-pages package provides man (manual) pages from the Linux Documentation Project.
This updated man-pages package addresses the following issues:
* some shells (including bash, the default Red Hat Enterprise Linux shell) have a built-in "time"
command. The time man page, however, documents /usr/bin/time, which provides options not
available using the shell keyword equivalent. Previously, the time man page did not note this
distinction. The time manual's DESCRIPTION section now notes both the existence of built-in time
commands and that the man page documents /usr/bin/time and not these built-in shell keywords.
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(BZ#443059
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* the proc pseudo file system includes a series of process status information directories at /proc/
[number]/stat (where [number] is the Process ID or PID). There are 42 status parameters but the
proc man page did not document the 42nd, delayacct_blkio_ticks. This parameter, which returns
aggregated block I/O delays, is now documented.
* the proc man page referenced two external files incorrectly. In the Description section, Memory Type
Range Registers (/proc/mtrr) details were referenced to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/mtrr.txt. The
See Also section, referenced proc.txt to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/. The referenced
files are in /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/ and the proc man page now reflects this.
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(BZ#456219
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* the POSIX man pages -- in /usr/share/man/man0p/, /usr/share/man/man1p/ and /usr/share/man/
man3p/ -- document applications that are not necessarily included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux but
the documentation did not note this. These pages now have a boilerplate PROLOG section added that
notes this explicitly.
(BZ#468897
* the syslog facility, LOG_KERN, specified the kernel as the message source but did not note that this
facility can be generated only by the kernel. The syslog man page now notes the LOG_KERN facility
cannot be generated from user processes.
* the pthread_setaffinity_np (part of pthread.h) man page was not included in the man-pages package.
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It now is.
(BZ#474238
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=443059
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=452290
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=456219
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=468897
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=471176
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=474238
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1426
)
(BZ#471176
)
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(BZ#452290
)
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