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             See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26280738/what-is-the-equivalent-of-loader-path-for-rpath-specification-on-linux/26281226#26281226
 
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+==================== Changes in man-pages-3.77 ====================
+
+Released: 2015-01-10, Munich
+
+
+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>
+Alexandre Bique <bique.alexandre@gmail.com>
+Andre Majorel <aym-xunil@teaser.fr>
+Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
+Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
+Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
+Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
+Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
+Ignat Loskutov <ignat.loskutov@gmail.com>
+Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net>
+Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org>
+Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
+Laurent Georget <laurent.georget@supelec.fr>
+Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
+Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
+Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
+Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com>
+Troy Davis <troy@yort.com>
+Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
+Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+New and rewritten pages
+-----------------------
+
+seccomp.2
+    Kees Cook, Michael Kerrisk, Will Drewry  [Andy Lutomirski]
+        New page documenting seccomp(2)
+            Combines documentation from prctl, in-kernel seccomp_filter.txt
+            and dropper.c, along with details specific to the new system call.
+
+
+Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
+---------------------------------------------
+
+netlink.7
+    Stephan Mueller  [Michael Kerrisk]
+        Add NETLINK_CRYPTO
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+adjtimex.2
+    Laurent Georget  [Richard Cochran, Jeff Epler]
+        Clarify the 'ppm scaling' used in struct timex
+            This patch makes explicit and clarifies the unit used for
+            the fields "freq", "ppsfreq" and "stabil" in struct timex.
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Masanari Iida]
+        Note that TIME_ERROR is the modern synonym for TIME_BAD
+
+perf_event_open.2
+    Vince Weaver
+        Clarify the PERF_FLAG_FD_* flags
+            This change clarifies the behavior of the PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT and
+            PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP flags to perf_event_open(), and removes
+            the related FIXME comments.
+
+            While writing tests to validate the behavior of these flags I
+            discovered that PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT has been broken since the
+            2.6.35 kernel release.
+
+prctl.2
+    Dave Hansen [Michael Kerrisk]
+        Add description of Intel MPX calls
+            The 3.19 kernel will have support for Intel MPX, including
+            a pair of new prctl() calls (PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT and
+            PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT) for enabling and disabling the
+            kernel's management of the "bounds tables".  Add a
+            descriptions of the interface.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add mention of seccomp(2) under PR_SET_SECCOMP
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Suggest /proc/PID/status "Seccomp" as alternative to PRCTL_GET_SECCOMP
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        SIGKILL can also occur PRCTL_GET_SECCOMP in SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER mode
+    Kees Cook  [Andy Lutomirski]
+        Document SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER vs EFAULT
+            This notes the distinction made between EINVAL and EFAULT when
+            attempting to use SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER with PR_SET_SECCOMP.
+
+setns.2
+pid_namespaces.7
+    Mike Frysinger
+        Elaborate discussion of the PID namespace descendant limitation
+            The setns(2) man page already mentions that CLONE_NEWPID may only
+            be used with descendant namespaces, but this nuance could be
+            listed in a few more places so it is not missed.
+
+shmget.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Akihiro Motoki]
+        Make wording of SHMALL description a little clearer
+
+sigaction.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add siginfo_t fields for SECCOMP_RET_TRAP
+
+memchr.3
+strstr.3
+    Alexandre Bique
+        Reference memmem(3) in SEE ALSO section
+
+memcmp.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Michael Haardt]
+        NOTES: add some detail on avoiding memcmp() of cryptographic data
+            Wording largely based on comments from Michael Haardt.
+
+pthread_tryjoin_np.3
+    Jérôme Pouiller  [Michael Kerrisk]
+        Document EINVAL error for pthread_timedjoin_np()
+
+mem.4
+    Elie De Brauwer
+        /dev/kmem depends on CONFIG_DEVKMEM
+    Elie De Brauwer
+        Correct /dev/port group in example
+            mem.4 mentions that group for /dev/port should be set to 'mem'
+            However, all other files (/dev/mem and /dev/kmem) use the kmem
+            group in their examples and on my system /dev/port belongs to
+            kmem. Hence the 'mem' group was probably a typo:
+    Elie De Brauwer
+        Add CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
+            Since 2.6.26 the CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM options limits the
+            physical addresses which can be accessed through /dev/mem.
+
+random.4
+    Heinrich Schuchardt
+        Describe handling of O_NONBLOCK
+            /dev/random and /dev/urandom treat O_NONBLOCK differently.
+            This should be described in the manpage.
+    Heinrich Schuchardt
+        Mention PRNG used by urandom
+            /dev/urandom uses a pseudo-random number generator to replace
+            missing entropy.
+
+proc.5
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document "Seccomp" field of /proc/PID/status
+
+epoll.7
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Ignat Loskutov]
+        Use epoll_create1() rather than epoll_create() in the code example
+            epoll_create1() is more or less the preferred API for new
+            applications, since it allows for some flags and avoids the
+            misdesigned epoll_create() argument, and so it seems sensible
+            to use that in the example, rather than epoll_create().
+
+tcp.7
+    Troy Davis
+        Clarify tcp_tw_recycle on Internet-facing hosts
+            Clarify that tcp_tw_recycle will break communication with many
+            general-purpose remote Internet hosts (namely, remote NAT devices)
+            even when the Linux device itself is not behind NAT.