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     Kyle McMartin
         Correction: tcp_window_scaling is ENabled by default.
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+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.37 ====================
+
+Released: 2006-08-02
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
+Dean Gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
+Frank van Viegen <F.C.vanViegen@UTwente.nl>
+Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
+Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
+Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
+Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Thomas Huriaux / mtk
+
+        Various formatting found as a result of reviewing the following
+        command were fixed.
+
+        for a in  $(wc man?/*.?| awk '$1 > 2 ' | grep -v total); do 
+            echo $a; groff -Tascii -wmac -mman $a > /dev/null; 
+        done 2>&1 | less
+
+        See Debian Bug# 378544.
+                
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+readlinkat.2
+    mtk (after prompting from Ivana Varekova)
+        New page for readlinkat(2), new in kernel 2.6.16.
+        
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+ldd.1
+    Ville Skyttä
+        Document "-u" option.
+
+chdir.2
+    mtk
+        Noted effect of fork() and execve() on current working directory.
+
+chroot.2
+    mtk
+        Noted effect of fork() and execve() on root directory.
+
+epoll_ctl.2
+    Frank van Viegen / mtk
+        Fix description of EBADF error.
+
+exevce.2
+    mtk
+        Add text noting that effective IDs are copied to 
+        saved set-IDs during execve().
+        See Debian bug 379297.
+
+getitimer.2
+    mtk
+        Noted effect of fork() and execve() on interval tiemrs.
+         
+getrlimit.2
+    mtk
+        Noted effect of fork() and execve() on resource limits.
+
+getpriority.2
+    mtk
+        Noted effect of fork() and execve().
+
+inotify_add_watch.2
+    mtk
+        Some rewording; included text describing required file 
+        permissions.
+
+intro.2
+    mtk
+        Revised description of standards under CONFORMING TO.
+
+makecontext.3
+    Helmut Grohne / mtk
+        Point out that args following 'argc' are int.
+    mtk
+        Added an example program.
+        Various minor wording fixes.
+
+mmap.2
+    mtk
+        Expand description of MAP_POPULATE.
+    mtk, after prompting by Dan Gaudet
+        Expand description MAP_NONBLOCK.
+    mtk
+        Various minor formatting fixes.
+        
+openat.2
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.
+
+nanosleep.2
+    mtk
+        Noted buggy behaviour in Linux 2.4 and earlier when
+        nanosleep() is restarted after receiving stop+SIGCONT signals.
+nice.2
+    mtk
+        Very minor rewording.
+        
+readlink.2
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.
+
+sched_setscheduler.2
+     mtk
+         Noted preservation of scheduling parameters across execve().
+         
+setpgid.2
+     mtk
+         Noted effect of fork() and execve() on process group ID.
+         
+setsid.2
+     mtk
+         Noted effect of fork() and execve() on session ID.
+         
+umask.2
+    mtk
+        Noted effect of fork() and execve() on umask.
+
+atexit.3
+    mtk
+        Noted inheritance of registrations across fork().
+
+capabilities.7
+    mtk
+        Added material on privileges required for move_pages().
+        CLONE_NEWNS needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
+        keyctl(KEYCTL_CHOWN) and keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM) require
+        CAP_SYS_ADMIN.