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8.112. man-pages-overrides

Updated man-pages-overrides packages that fix several bugs and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The man-pages-overrides packages provide a collection of manual (man) pages to complement other packages or update those contained therein.

Bug Fixes

BZ#988125
The madvise(2) manual page did not contain the "MADV_DODUMP" and "MADV_DONTDUMP" arguments. This update adds a description of these arguments to the madvise(2) manual page.
BZ#833868
Previously, the manual page for the dig utility contained upstream-specific options for an Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) library. Consequently, these options did not function as expected and users were incapable of disabling IDN support in dig following the steps from the manual page. The dig(1) manual page has been modified to include the options of the IDN library used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and users can now successfully disable IDN support in dig following the steps from the manual page.
BZ#978981
Previously, no manual page for the getent utility was available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This update adds the missing getent(1) manual page and the documentation of the utility is now complete.
BZ#872144
Prior to this update, the top(1) manual page did not describe calculation of resident memory size properly. The incorrect calculation of resident memory size has been removed from this manual page.
BZ#1018622
Previously, the description of the "new station" message in the arpwatch(8) manual page was not accurate, which could cause confusion. This update adds a correct description of the "new station" message to the arpwatch(8) manual page.
BZ#896700
Previously, the auditd.conf(5) manual page contained an incomplete sentence. The incomplete sentence has been fixed with this update.
BZ#974697
The ld.so(8) manual page contained an incorrect description of the "LD_PRELOAD" variable. With this update, the description of the variable has been corrected in the ld.so(8) manual page.
BZ#1002071
The bash(1) manual page did not reflect the behavior changes in the "extglob" option introduced in Bash version 4.1. This update adds a correct description of "extglob" behavior to the bash(1) man page.
BZ#903258
The manual page for the fallocate utility did not contain description of the "FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE" flag. This update adds a description of "FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE" to the fallocate(2) manual page.
BZ#979318
Previously, the manual page for the netstat utility did not mention IPv6 in the description of the command's "-A" option. With this update, the description of the IPv6 functionality has been added to the netstat(8) manual page.
BZ#905066
Previously, loading Certification Authority (CA) certificates by nickname when using the curl utility with Network Security Services (NSS) was described incorrectly in the curl documentation. This update adds correct documentation of the above mentioned process.
BZ#957010
Prior to this update, the strtoul(3) manual page contained incorrect return values of the "strtoul()" and "strtoull()" functions. This update fixes the strtoul(3) manual page and it now contains correct information.
BZ#960281
Previously, the clock_getres(2) manual page did not contain the "CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE" and "CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE" clk_id values. With this update, the above mentioned values have been added to the clock_getres(2) manual page.
BZ#974685
Previously, the sched_setaffinity(2) manual page contained an incorrect example, which could cause confusion. The incorrect example has been removed from the sched_setaffinity(2) manual page.
BZ#951826
Previously, the manual page for the postconf utility contained incorrect information about the default configuration of a postfix server. This update fixes the default configuration description in the postconf(5) manual page.
BZ#979460
The mailx(1) manual page contained an incomplete entry about setting variables with the "-S" option. This update provides a better description of setting variables with the "-S" option and adds an example of the syntax using "from=" to the mailx(1) manual page.
BZ#913191
Prior to this update, the selinux(8) manual page contained outdated information. This manual page has been updated, and SELinux is now documented correctly.
BZ#907837
The useradd(8) manual page contained an incorrect description of the "-u, --uid UID" option, which could cause confusion. The description has been fixed with this update.
BZ#807323
Previously, a manual page for the byzanz-record utility did not mention the possibility to use the "webm" output format and the manual page was thus incomplete. This update adds "webm" to the byzanz-record(1) manual page.
BZ#1020417
The ssh_config(5) manual page contained an incorrect default value for the "KexAlgorithms" option. This bug has been fixed and the default value for "KexAlgorithms" in the ssh_config(5) manual page is now correct.
BZ#1020432
The "-n" option in the ssh-keygen utility was renamed to "-Z", but the ssh-keygen(1) manual page was not updated. This bug has been fixed and the ssh-keygen(1) manual page now describes the correct option.

Enhancement

BZ#928917
Previously, the "O_DIRECT" flag was not described in the open(2) manual page. This update adds this description and the documentation is now complete.
Users of man-pages-overrides are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add this enhancement.