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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@sourceware.org> To: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: [glibc] NEWS: Fix typos, grammar, and missing words Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 20:49:03 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview] Message-ID: <20210801204903.BFECC3855010@sourceware.org> (raw) https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=cfdaa29f6678f57cda554e3dffb2c25e6d174489 commit cfdaa29f6678f57cda554e3dffb2c25e6d174489 Author: Mark Harris <mark.hsj@gmail.com> Date: Sat Jul 31 16:25:57 2021 -0700 NEWS: Fix typos, grammar, and missing words Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> Diff: --- NEWS | 25 +++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ea54518142..ee391c9271 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -41,9 +41,10 @@ Major new features: * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on these configurations, this default may change in future versions. - This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor set to 64 and only - supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is only - enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum version of 5.1. + This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is + only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is + only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel + version of 5.1. * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary @@ -68,13 +69,13 @@ Major new features: closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9). * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors - greater than given integer. This function is a GNU extension, although it - also present in other systems. + greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension, + although it is also present in other systems. -* The posix_spawn_file_actions_closefrom_np function has been added, enabling - posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors great than or - equal to a giver integer. This function is a GNU extension, although - Solaris also provides a similar function. +* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added, + enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater + than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension, + although Solaris also provides a similar function. Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: @@ -109,11 +110,11 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation - request. It should not be visible to application since the cancellation + request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are - buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS version) that could still - see spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall. + buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still + see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall. * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
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