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     Justin Pryzby / Colin Watson / mtk
         .SH doesn't require quotes.
         See Debian bug 411303.
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+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.49 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-05-20
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@dd.iij4u.or.jp>
+Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+bsd_signal.3
+    mtk
+        Documentation of bsd_signal().
+
+euidaccess.3
+    mtk
+        Manual page for euidaccess() and eaccess().
+
+getsubopt.3
+    mtk / Justin Pryzby
+         Documentation of getsubopt().
+
+sysv_signal.3
+    mtk
+        Documentation of sysv_signal().
+
+
+New links
+---------
+
+epoll_pwait.2
+    mtk
+        New link to epoll_wait.2.
+
+eaccess.3
+    mtk
+        New link to new euidaccess.3,
+
+sem_timedwait.3
+    mtk
+        New link to sem_wait.3.
+
+sem_trywait.3
+    mtk
+        New link to sem_wait.3.
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+access.3
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page.
+
+epoll_pwait.2
+    mtk
+        Added description of epoll_pwait(), new in kernel 2.6.19.
+
+execve.2
+    mtk
+        Add text noting that Linux allows 'argv' and 'envp' to be
+        NULL, but warning that this is non-standard and non-portable,
+        and should be avoided in portable programs.
+        Bug filed (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408)
+        to get this changed, but maybe that won't be done because it
+        is an ABI change.
+    mtk
+        Added an example program.
+    mtk
+        Expanded the discussion of interpreter scripts and the
+        'optional-arg' argument of an interpreter script.
+        For further info, see
+        http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/std/hashexclam-1.html
+        http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/
+    mtk
+        Added text noting that FD_CLOEXEC causes record locks to be
+        released.
+    mtk
+        Mention effect of MS_NOSUID mount(2) flag for set-user-ID
+        programs.
+    mtk
+        Expanded description of handling of file descriptors during
+        execve(), adding text to note that descriptors 0, 1, and 2
+        may be treated specially.
+
+faccessat.3
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page.
+
+mmap.2
+    mtk
+        Place MAP_* flags list in alphabetical order.
+
+readv.2
+    mtk
+        A fairly substantial rewrite, which among other things
+        fixes the problem reported by Kyle Sluder in
+        http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8399
+        And added some example code.
+
+sigaction.2
+    mtk
+        Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
+        functions in signal(7).
+        A few other minor formatting and wording changes.
+
+signal.2
+    mtk
+        Moved the discussion of async-signal-safe functions to signal(7).
+        Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
+        functions in signal(7).
+        Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and
+        sysv_signal.3 pages.
+
+copysign.3
+    Bruno Haible
+        Clarify discussion of negative zero.
+
+iconv_open.3
+    Bruno Haible
+        Describe the glibc/libiconv //TRANSLIT and //IGNORE extensions
+        for 'tocode'.
+
+iswblank.3
+    Bruno Haible
+        Update CONFORMING TO; iswblank() is in POSIX.1-2001.
+
+subopt.3
+    mtk
+        Add SEE ALSO ref to new getsubopt.3.
+
+inotify.7
+    mtk
+        Defintions for IN_DONT_FOLLOW, IN_MASK_ADD, and IN_ONLYDIR
+        were added to glibc in version 2.5.
+
+signal.7
+    mtk
+        Incorporated (and slightly modified) the text on
+        async-signal-safe functions that was formerly in signal(2).
+        Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and
+        sysv_signal.3 pages.