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+==================== Changes in man-pages-3.44 ====================
+
+Released: 2012-11-07, Barcelona
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
+in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
+incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Bert Hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
+David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
+James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
+Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
+Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
+Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
+Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
+Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
+Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.se>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+New and rewritten pages
+-----------------------
+
+delete_module.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Rewrite to Linux 2.6+ reality
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Change license and copyright
+            There is now nothing left of the original FSF-copyrighted
+            page. So, change the copyright and license.
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Lucas De Marchi, Rusty Russell]
+        Substantial reorganization after comments from Rusty Russell
+            Rusty notes that O_NONBLOCK is almost always used in
+            practice. Therefore, it would be better to reorganize
+            the page to consider that "the default".
+
+init_module.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Rewrite to Linux 2.6+ reality
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Change copyright and license
+            Little of the original page now remains. Change
+            copyright and license
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Rusty Russell]
+        Changes after review comments from Rusty Russell
+    Kees Cook
+        Add various pieces describing Linux 2.6+ behavior
+            Pieces take from, or inspired by, a patch sent by Kees.
+
+getauxval.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document getauxval() function added in glibc 2.16
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Global fix: Use consistent capitalization in NAME section
+            The line(s) in the NAME section should only use capitals
+            where English usage dictates that. Otherwise, use
+            lowercase throughout.
+
+Various pages
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Global fix: "userspace" ==> "user space" or "user-space"
+            Existing pages variously use "userspace or "user space".
+            But, "userspace" is not quite an English word.
+            So change "userspace" to "user space" or, when used
+            attributively, "user-space".
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+clock_getres.2
+clock_nanosleep.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Linking with -lrt is no longer needed from glibc 2.17 onward
+
+create_module.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note that this system call is present only in kernels before 2.6
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note that ENOSYS probably indicates kernel 2.6+
+
+execve.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document treatment of PR_SET_PDEATHSIG on execve()
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document treatment of SECBIT_KEEP_CAPS securebits flag on execve()
+
+fork.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note treatment of default timer slack value on fork()
+
+getdomainname.2
+    Simon Paillard  [Lars Wirzenius]
+        Point out that these calls relate to NIS, not DNS
+            See http://bugs.debian.org/295635
+
+get_kernel_syms.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note that this system call is present only in kernels before 2.6
+
+ipc.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Update note on architectures that don't have ipc()
+            Replace mention of ia64 with x86-64 and ARM.
+
+link.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add EPERM error triggered by /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlink
+
+prctl.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Mention Documentation/prctl/no_new_privs.txt for PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS
+    Kees Cook
+        update seccomp sections for mode 2 (BPF)
+            This adds a short summary of the arguments used
+            for "mode 2" (BPF) seccomp.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Small improvements to PR_SET_SECCOMP discussion
+            Note type of 'arg3' for SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER.
+            Add pointer to Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note 'seccomp' semantics with respect to fork(), execve(), and prctl()
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document PR_SET_TIMERSLACK and PR_GET_TIMERSLACK
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Reword PR_SET_NAME and PR_GET_NAME in terms of threads
+            Plus tfix
+    Kees Cook
+        document PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, PR_GET_NO_NEW_PRIVS
+            This adds a short description of the no_new_privs bit,
+            as described in Documentation/prctl/no_new_privs.txt.
+
+ptrace.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Clarify that some operations are not present on all architectures
+            PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETGREFS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS,
+            and PTRACE_GETSPREGS are not present on all architectures.
+            PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP are present only
+            on x86.
+
+            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=122383
+
+query_module.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add a few words clarifying reference to /sys/module
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note that this system call is present only in kernels before 2.6
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note that ENOSYS probably indicates kernel 2.6+
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        SEE ALSO: Add modinfo(8) and lsinfo(8)
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Move some information in NOTES to VERSIONS
+
+socketcall.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Update note on architectures that don't have socketcall()
+            Replace mention of ia64 with x86-64 and ARM.
+
+times.2
+    Thomas Habets
+        Recommend clock_gettime(2) as alternative to times(2)
+
+clock_getcpuclockid.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Linking with -lrt is no longer needed from glibc 2.17 onward
+
+fts.3
+    Simon Paillard  [James Youngman]
+        Improve description of physical vs. logical tree walking
+            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633505
+
+getenv.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        SEE ALSO: add getauxval(3)
+
+proc.5
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document /proc/meminfo
+            Info mostly taken from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+            and Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Default for /proc/sys/fs/protected_{hardlinks,symlinks} is now 0
+            The default setting of 1 in/proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks
+            and /proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks caused one too many
+            breakages for Linus's taste, so commit 561ec64ae67e changed
+            the default for both files to 0.
+        Note system call error yielded by /proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks
+            Note that violating 'protected_symlinks' restrictions
+            causes system calls to fail with the error EACCES.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Since Linux 2.6.27, /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe depends on CONFIG_MODULES
+
+ipv6.7
+    Bert Hubert
+        Document IPV6_RECVPKTINFO
+
+man-pages.7
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note rules for capitalization in NAME section
+
+time.7
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add a subsection on timer slack
+
+ld.so.8
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        SEE ALSO: add getauxval(3)