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+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.08 ====================
+
+Released: 2005-09-21
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
+Alain PORTAL <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
+Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net>
+Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
+Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
+Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>
+Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser.fujitsu-siemens.com>
+David N. Welton <davidw@eidetix.com>
+Dov Murik <dov@dv-networks.com>
+Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
+Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
+Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Ludovic Courtes <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Nicolas Francois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
+Norbert Buchmuller <norbi.spam@nix.hu>
+Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
+Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@gmail.com>
+Tommy Pettersson <ptp@lysator.liu.se>
+Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+RFC references are now always written as "RFC\ nnn" (not "RFC nnn" or 
+"RFCnnn").
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+du.1
+    Mike Frysinger
+        To get an effect like "-h", BLOCKSIZE must start with "human", 
+            not "HUMAN".
+
+time.1
+    Mike Frysinger
+        s/standard output/standard error/
+    
+clone.2
+    Paul Brook / mtk
+        Fix small error in description of CLONE_PARENT_SETTID
+
+connect.2
+    Heikki Orsila
+        Add EINTR error
+        See http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/12/254
+
+getpriority.2
+    mtk
+        Expanded discussion of relationship between user and kernel 
+            representations of the nice value.
+
+        Added discussion of RLIMIT_NICE and a cross reference to 
+            getrlimit.2 under the description of the EACCES error.
+
+        Noted 2.6.12 change in credentials checking for setpriority().
+
+getrlimit.2
+    mtk
+        Added description of RLIMIT_RTPRIO
+
+        Added description of RLIMIT_NICE
+
+mmap.2
+    mtk
+        Noted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7.
+        
+mremap.2
+   mtk
+        Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype.
+        Rewrote description of MREMAP_MAYMOVE.
+        Rewrote description of EAGAIN error.
+        Added discussion of resizing of memory locks.
+        Added entries to SEE ALSO.
+        Some formatting fixes.
+
+msgctl.2
+    mtk
+        Added IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO, MSG_STAT descriptions.
+
+nanosleep.2
+    Baurzhan Ismagulov
+        Add to prototype: define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309
+        As per Debian bug 314435
+
+nice.2
+    mtk
+        Added sentence noting that range of the nice value is described 
+            in getpriority.2.
+        Added cross-reference to setrlimit(2) for discussion on 
+            RLIMIT_NICE.
+    
+outb.2
+    David N. Welton / Justin Pryzby / mtk
+        Clarified the order of value and port arguments;
+        As per Debian bug 263756
+
+pause.2
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO for sigsuspend.2
+        Some formatting fixes.
+
+poll.2
+    Tommy Pettersson
+        nfds should be prototyped as nfds_t
+        As per Debian bug 322934
+
+    mtk
+        Some wording and formatting improvements.
+
+prctl.2
+    mtk
+        Since kernel 2.6.13 PR_SET_DUMPABLE can also have the value 2.
+
+rand.3
+    Hrvoje Niksic / mtk
+        Remove misleading text describing FreeBSD's sranddev() function.
+        As per debian bug 328629
+        
+readv.2
+    mtk / Walter harms
+        Added LINUX NOTES on trickery performed by glibc when
+        vector size exceeds IOV_MAX.
+
+        Formatting clean-ups.
+        
+remap_file_pages.2
+    mtk
+        Added text to note that start and size are both rounded downwards.
+
+sched_setparam.2
+    mtk
+       Modified discussion of privileges; added pointer to 
+           sched_setscheduler.2 for a discussion of privileges and 
+           resource limits.
+
+sched_setscheduler.2
+   mtk
+       Modified discussion of privileges; added discussion of RLIMIT_RTPRIO.
+
+semctl.2
+    mtk
+        Added IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT descriptions.
+
+shmctl.2
+    mtk
+        Added IPC_INFO, SHM_INFO, SHM_STAT descriptions.
+
+sigaction.2
+    mtk
+        Split sigpending(), sigprocmask(), and sigsuspend() out
+        into separate new pages.
+
+        Other minor changes
+
+    mtk
+        NOTES: described SA_NODER / sa_mask bug which was present in 
+                all kernels up to and including 2.6.13.
+        See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112360948603171&w=2
+        and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112362164911432&w=2
+        List:       linux-kernel
+        Subject:    Signal handling possibly wrong
+        From:       Bodo Stroesser
+        Date:       2005-08-09 17:44:06
+
+signal.2
+    mtk
+        Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into
+        sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2
+
+sigpending.2
+    mtk
+        New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
+        Changed CONFORMING TO.
+
+sigprocmask.2
+    mtk
+        New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
+        Added text on effect of NULL for 'set' argument.
+        Added text noting effect of ignoring SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL, 
+                and SIGSEGV.
+        Noted that sigprocmask() can't be used in multithreaded process.
+        Fixed EINVAL error diagnostic.
+        Changed CONFORMING TO.
+
+sigsuspend.2
+    mtk
+        New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
+        Added NOTES on usage.
+        Added new text to DESCRIPTION.
+        Changed CONFORMING TO.
+
+stat.2
+    Mike Frysinger
+        Improve st_blocks description.
+
+carg.3 
+    Ramiro Aceves / aeb
+        Change:
+                One has carg(z) = atan(creal(z) / cimag(z))
+        to:
+                One has tan(carg(z)) = cimag(z) / creal(z)
+
+        As per Debian bug 326720
+    
+cmsg.3
+    mtk
+        s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/          (POSIX standard name)
+
+dlopen.3
+    Alain Portal
+        s/-nostartupfiles/-nostartfiles/
+
+getaddrinfo.3
+    mtk
+        Nowadays (since 2.3.4) glibc only sets the first ai_canonname 
+        field if AI_CANONNAME was specified (the current behavior
+        is all that SUSv3 requires).
+
+        1,$s/PF_/AF_/g
+
+        Added descriptions of AI_ALL, AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_V4MAPPED, 
+        and AI_NUMERICSERV.
+
+        Some wording and formatting fixes.
+
+getpwnam.3
+    Bernhard R. Link / mtk
+        Add NOTES text describing relationship of pw_dir and HOME and 
+            pointing out that applications should preferentially 
+            inspect HOME
+
+inet.3
+    Mike Frysinger
+        Mention "little endian" and "big endian".
+        Added note about octal and hex interpretation of 
+             numbers-and-dots notation.
+
+rpc.3
+    mtk / Ludovic Courtes 
+        Commented out references to rpc_secure(3) -- we don't currently 
+            have such a page in the man-pages set.
+        In response to Debian bug report 325115
+
+setenv.3
+    mtk
+        glibc 2.3.4 fixed the "name contains '='" bug
+
+strnlen.3
+    Mike Frysinger
+        Added "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to prototype.
+        
+initrd.4
+    Norbert Buchmuller / mtk
+        Added text noting that the use or real-root-dev for changing 
+        the root device is obsolete, in favour of pivot root.  
+        (However, the page still needs to be rewritten to actually 
+        describe the pivot_root method...)
+        As per Debian bug 323621.
+
+proc.5
+    mtk
+        Improve text describing /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files 
+                                                      
+        Describe /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (new in 2.6.13)
+
+        Added placeholder mention of /proc/zoneinfo (new in 2.6.13)
+            More needs to be said about this file
+
+        Repaired earlier cut and paste mistake which resulted 
+            in part of the text of this page being duplicated.
+
+utmp.5
+    Mike Frysinger
+        Added text on biarch details for ut_session and ut_tv.
+
+capabilities.7
+    mtk
+        Added CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE.
+
+ip.7
+    mtk / Andrew Pimlott
+        Add a couple of words to make it clear that port is a 16-bit number.
+        Reformat long source lines (no text changed).
+        
+        s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/            (POSIX standard name)
+
+    Hasso Tepper
+        Fix discussion of IPC_RECVTTL / IP_TTL
+
+signal.7
+    mtk
+        Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into
+        sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2
+
+socket.7
+    mtk
+        Clarified details of use of SO_PEERCRED.
+
+tcp.7
+    mtk
+        s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/          (POSIX standard name)
+        s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/            (POSIX standard name)
+
+udp.7
+    mtk
+        Added description of UDP_CORK socket option
+
+        s/SOL_UDP/IPPROTO_UDP/          (POSIX standard name)
+        s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/            (POSIX standard name)