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+==================== Changes in man-pages-3.38 ====================
+
+Released: 2012-03-25, Christchurch
+
+
+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:
+
+Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@gmail.com>
+Artyom Pervukhin <artyom@evasive.ru>
+Beňas Petr <xbenas00@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
+Ben Bacarisse <software@bsb.me.uk>
+Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
+David Prévot <david@tilapin.org>
+Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
+Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
+Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
+Iain Fraser <iainkfraser@gmail.com>
+Justin T Pryzby <justinp@norchemlab.com>
+Kirill Brilliantov <brilliantov@inbox.ru>
+Mark R Bannister <mark@proseconsulting.co.uk>
+Matthew Gregan <kinetik@flim.org>
+Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
+Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
+Sergei Zhirikov <sfzhi@yahoo.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+New and rewritten pages
+-----------------------
+
+get_nprocs_conf.3
+    Beňas Petr
+        New page documenting get_nprocs_conf(3) and get_nprocs(3)
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Some additions and improvements
+
+malloc_get_state.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        New page documenting malloc_get_state(3) and malloc_set_state(3)
+
+mallopt.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        New man page for mallopt(3)
+
+mtrace.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Complete rewrite of page, adding much more detail
+
+scandirat.3
+    Mark R Bannister
+        New page for scandirat(3) (new in glibc 2.15)
+
+
+Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
+---------------------------------------------
+
+posix_memalign.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document aligned_alloc(3)
+            aligned_alloc() is new in C11.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document pvalloc(3)
+
+qsort.3
+    Mark R Bannister
+        Add documentation of qsort_r(3)
+    Ben Bacarisse
+        Improvements to Mark R Bannister's qsort_r() patch
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add VERSIONS section for qsort_r()
+
+
+New and changed links
+---------------------
+
+aligned_alloc.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        New link to posix_memalign.3
+
+get_nprocs.3
+    Beňas Petr
+        Link to new get_nprocs_conf.3 page
+
+malloc_set_state.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Link to new malloc_get_state.3 page
+
+pvalloc.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        New link to posix_memalign.3
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Global formatting fix: balance .nf/.fi pairs
+
+Various pages
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Global fix: place sections in correct order
+
+Various pages
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Justin T Pryzby]
+        Global fix: Remove duplicated words
+            Remove instances of duplicate words found using Justin's
+            grep-fu:
+
+                for f in man?/*.[1-9]; do
+                    grep -HE ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1' "$f" |
+                        grep -Evw '(proc|hugetlbfs|XXX*|root|long) *\1';
+                done | grep -E --colo ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1'
+
+Various pages
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Correct order of SEE ALSO entries
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+futimesat.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        PROTOTYPE: Correct header file and feature test macro requirements
+
+keyctl.2
+    Bjarni Ingi Gislason
+        Strip trailing tabs from source line
+            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664688
+
+ptrace.2
+    Denys Vlasenko
+        Document PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG for PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC
+    Denys Vlasenko
+        Various fixes to recent updates of this page
+
+symlinkat.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Eric Blake]
+        PROTOTYPE: Correct header file
+
+syscalls.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Remove unimplemented system calls from main syscall list
+            The unimplemented system calls are in any case noted lower down
+            in the page. Also: rearrange the text describing the unimplemented
+            system calls.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note a few system calls that were removed in Linux 2.6
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2)
+
+unlinkat.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Eric Blake]
+        PROTOTYPE: Correct header file
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        PROTOTYPE: Add <fcntl.h> for AT_* constants
+
+utimensat.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        PROTOTYPE: Add <fcntl.h> for AT_* constants
+
+copysign.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Tolga Dalman]
+        DESCRIPTION: Add a couple of examples
+
+malloc.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        NOTES: Add a short discussion of arenas
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Replace discussion of MALLOC_CHECK_ with pointer to mallopt(3)
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        SEE ALSO: Add mtrace(3)
+        SEE ALSO: add malloc_get_state(3)
+
+posix_memalign.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Rename memalign() argument
+            Rename "boundary" to "alignment" for consistency
+            with posix_memalign().
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Improve discussion of feature test macros and header files for valloc(3)
+
+rtnetlink.3
+    Kirill Brilliantov  [Sergei Zhirikov]
+        Fix example code, rta_len assignment should use RTA_LENGTH()
+            See also http://bugs.debian.org/655088
+
+scandir.3
+    Mark R Bannister
+        SEE ALSO: Add scandirat(3)
+
+sigqueue.3
+    Nix
+        Remove rt_sigqueueinfo from TH line
+            rt_sigqueueinfo() now has its own manual page, so should not
+            be listed in the .TH line of this page.
+
+tzset.3
+    Peter Schiffer
+        Correct description for Julian 'n' date format
+            The Julian 'n' date format counts starting from 0, not 1.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add some clarifying remarks to discussion of Julian day formats
+
+packet.7
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Iain Fraser]
+        Fix comment on 'sll_hatype' field
+
+tcp.7
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Artyom Pervukhin]
+        Correct RFC for TIME_WAIT assassination hazards