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     Andi Kleen
         Describe the correct default for UDP/RAW path MTU discovery.
 
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.44 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-04-04
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Andre Majorel <aym-naideb@teaser.fr>
+Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@cs.cmu.edu>
+Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
+Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
+Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
+Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
+John Ward <jward@idealcorp.com>
+Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com>
+Julien Blache <jblache@debian.org>
+Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
+Nick Pollitt <npollitt@mvista.com>
+Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.ne>
+Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
+Premysl Hruby <dfenze@gmail.com>
+Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
+Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
+Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
+Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
+Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
+Val Henson <val_henson@linux.interl.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+termio.7
+    mtk, after a bit of prodding by Reuben Thomas
+        A brief discussion of the old System V termio interface,
+        with pointers to pages that will contain the information
+        that the reader probably wants.
+
+scripts/find_repeated_words.sh
+    mtk
+        Find consecutive duplicate words in a man page, some of
+        which may me grammar errors.
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+mtk
+    Justin Pryzby / mtk
+        Add "#define _ATFILE_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS in following pages:
+            faccessat.2
+            fchmodat.2
+            fchownat.2
+            fstatat.2
+            futimesat.2
+            linkat.2
+            mkdirat.2
+            mknodat.2
+            openat.2
+            readlinkat.2
+            renameat.2
+            symlinkat.2
+            unlinkat.2
+            mkfifoat.3
+
+mtk 
+    Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
+    that is the manual page more likely to be found on current systems.
+
+mtk, after a suggestion by Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
+    Updated various header pages to accurately reflect which functions 
+    are and are not part of C89.  Also fixed/improved a few other 
+    CONFORMING TO entries.
+
+mtk
+    s/Unices/Unix systems/ on the 5 pages where it appears.
+
+mtk
+    Wrapped long source lines in the following files
+        man2/getsockopt.2
+        man2/mknodat.2
+        man2/io_setup.2
+        man2/select_tut.2
+        man2/select.2
+        man2/readlinkat.2
+        man2/io_cancel.2
+        man2/syslog.2
+        man3/wcsncat.3
+        man3/getipnodebyname.3
+        man3/cmsg.3
+        man3/wcpncpy.3
+        man3/wcsrtombs.3
+        man3/wcstok.3
+        man3/fgetwc.3
+        man3/wmemcmp.3
+        man3/wcsspn.3
+        man3/div.3
+        man3/modf.3
+        man3/stdio_ext.3
+        man3/ctermid.3
+        man3/des_crypt.3
+        man3/wcsncmp.3
+        man3/wmemchr.3
+        man3/wcsstr.3
+        man3/wmemcpy.3
+        man3/wprintf.3
+        man3/wcsnrtombs.3
+        man3/termios.3
+        man3/erf.3
+        man3/ceil.3
+        man3/lround.3
+        man3/nextafter.3
+        man3/wcsncpy.3
+        man3/wmemset.3
+        man3/getw.3
+        man4/console_ioctl.4
+        man4/sk98lin.4
+        man7/environ.7
+        man7/unix.7
+        man7/time.7
+
+mtk
+    Added a SEE ALSO reference for feature_test_macros(7) to all
+    pages where a feature test macro appears in the SYNOPSIS.
+
+mtk
+    Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to time.7
+       alarm.2
+       nanosleep.2
+       ualarm.3
+       usleep.3
+
+Justin Pryzby / mtk
+    Fixed consecutive duplicate word typos on a number of pages.
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.  (Special thanks to Nicolas François!)
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+access.2
+    mtk
+        Since 2.6.20, access() honours the MS_NOEXEC mount flag.
+    Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto / mtk
+        Improve ENOENT description.
+
+clone.2
+    mtk
+        Added some detail to the prototype.
+        Added some notes on IA-64's clone2().
+
+epoll_ctl.2
+    mtk
+        Add text to note that EPOLLRDHUP appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
+
+faccessat.2
+    Justin Pryzby
+        Various fixes as per Debian bug 411177.
+        * s/effective/real/ in description test.
+        * added <fcntl.h> to synopsis.
+        * various other changes.
+
+getrlimit.2
+    mtk / Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+        Added a few words to note that RLIMIT_NPROC is really a limit on
+        threads.
+
+io_cancel.2
+io_destroy.2
+io_getevents.2
+io_setup.2
+io_submit.2
+    Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+        s%linux/aio.h%libaio.h% in SYNOPSIS.
+        Changed return type from "long" to "int".
+
+mbind.2
+    Samuel Thibault / mtk
+        Fix EINVAL description.
+        See Debian bug 411777.
+       
+mincore.2
+    Nick Piggin
+        Kernel 2.6.21 fixes several earlier bugs in mincore().
+    Nick Pollitt
+        Remove words "of a file" -- mincore() is describing
+        memory residence information, not properties of a file.
+    mtk
+        Rewrote various parts to make the page clearer.
+
+mmap.2
+    mtk
+        Rewrote and reorganised various parts to be clearer.
+    Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+        Removed text stating that mmap() never returns 0; that's 
+        not true.
+
+mount.2
+    mtk / Val Henson
+        Document MS_RELATIME, new in Linux 2.6.20.
+    
+open.2
+    Andre Majorel / mtk
+        On Linux, the error returned when opening a large file on a 
+        32-bit system is actually EFBIG, not EOVERFLOW.
+
+posix_fadvise.2
+    Pádraig Brady
+        Fix RETURN VALUE description: returns error number of failure.
+
+rename.2
+    mtk / Timo Sirainen
+        Various improvements to DESCRIPTION.
+        See Debian bug 416012.
+
+semop.2
+    mtk
+        If sops contains multiple operations, then these are performed
+        in array order.  All Unix systems that I know of do this,
+        and some Linux applications depend on this behaviour.  SUSv3
+        made no explicit statement here, but SUSv3 will explicitly 
+        require this behaviour.
+        Small rewording of explanation of "atomically".
+
+signal.2
+    Nicolas François
+        Fix incorrect argument name in DESCRIPTION.
+    mtk
+        Small wording improvement.
+        
+socket.2
+    Nicolas François
+        Add reference to ipv6.7 page.
+        
+socketcall.2
+    Nicolas François
+        Fix .TH line.
+
+splice.2
+    Benjamin Gilbert
+        Fix inconsistent argument names in SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION.
+
+statvfs.2
+    mtk
+        Small wording clarification.
+
+symlink.2
+    mtk / Nicolas François
+        Removed cryptic text under CONFORMING to referring to 
+        "open(2) and NFS".  There is no relevant text in open.2 as 
+        far as I (mtk) can see.
+
+time.2
+    mtk / Reuben Thomas
+        Remove sentence "gettimeofday() obsoleting time() on 4.3BSD".
+        This information is old, and probably no longer relevant.
+        See Debian bug 403888.
+
+write.2
+    mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
+        Clarified discussion of /count == 0/ case.
+
+ptrace.2
+    Chuck Ebbert
+        When the parent receives an event with PTRACE_EVENT_* set, 
+        the child is not in the normal signal delivery path.  This 
+        means the parent cannot do ptrace(PTRACE_CONT) with a signal 
+        or ptrace(PTRACE_KILL).  kill() with a SIGKILL signal can be 
+        used instead to kill the child process after receiving one 
+        of these messages.
+        
+sched_setaffinity.2
+    mtk
+        Fix glibc version number in description of cpusetsize argument.
+   
+vfork.2
+    mtk
+        Stripped some excess/outdated text from the BUGS section.
+        
+basename.3
+    mtk / Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
+        Add text to clarify that the pointer returned by these
+        functions may be into some part of 'path'.
+
+dlopen.3
+    Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+    + Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
+        Add "#include <stdlib.h>" to example program.
+
+fclose.3
+    mtk
+        Complete rewrite.  The existing page was hard to read,
+        and the RETURN VALUE description seems to be wrong.
+
+getopt.3
+    mtk
+        Added getopt() example program.
+    mtk
+        Add a few words to clarify the operation of the GNU-specific double-colon
+        feature, which allows options to have optional arguments.
+        See Debian bug352139.
+
+glob.3
+    Nicolas François
+        Fix PROTOTYPE.
+
+inet_network.3
+    mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
+        Clarified description of inet_network().
+
+log.3
+    Nicolas François
+        Fix .TH line.
+
+log10.3
+    Nicolas François
+        Fix .TH line.
+
+malloc.3
+    Nicolas François
+        Small rewording to mention calloc().
+        
+posix_openpt.3
+    Martín Ferrari
+        Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; as per Debian bug 400971.
+        Needs _XOPEN_SOURCE == 600; as per Debian bug 400975.
+    Julien BLACHE
+        s/ptsname/posix_openpt/ in RETURN VALUE
+        
+re_comp.3
+    Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+        Add "#define _REGEX_RE_COMP" to SYNOPSIS.
+        
+regex.3
+    Nicolas François
+        Fix .TH line.
+
+termios.3
+    mtk
+        Added .SS headers to give some structure to this page; and a small
+        amount of reordering.
+    mtk
+        Added a section on canonical and non-canonical mode.
+    mtk
+        Enhanced the discussion of "raw" mode for cfmakeraw().
+    mtk
+        Document CMSPAR.
+    mtk
+        Make description of PARODD a little clearer.
+    Reuben Thomas
+        Add SEE ALSO link to tty_ioctl.4
+    mtk
+        Add SEE ALSO link to console_ioctl.4
+
+ualarm.3
+    mtk
+        Removed BSD prototype from synopsis.
+        Various rewordings.
+
+usleep.3
+    mtk
+        Removed BSD prototype from synopsis.
+        Various rewordings.
+
+termcap.5
+    Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+        s/curses/ncurses/ under SEE ALSO
+
+bootparam.7
+    Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+        Documented "mem=nopentium".
+
+feature_test_macros.7
+    mtk
+        The default treatment of _POSIX_C_SOURCE changed in glibc 2.4.
+    mtk, after a suggestion by Justin Pryzby
+        Added some text warning that the "__" macros the
+        <features.h> defines internally should never be
+        directly defined by programs.
+    mtk, based on notes by Jakub Jelinek
+        Document _FORTIFY_SOURCE
+        (See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg02055.html )
+    mtk
+        Document _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE.
+
+mdoc.7
+    mtk / Nicolas François
+        Remove CONFIGURATION section, since this does not seem to be
+        true for Linux.
+        
+svipc.7
+    Nicolas François
+        Fix data types in associated data structures; 
+        remove non-existent semzcnt and semncnt fields.
+
+time.7
+    mtk
+        Since kernel 2.6.20, the software clock can also be 300 HZ.