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               documented tool to create the whatis database is called mandb.
             * The description on .SH NAME in man(7) should either copy the
               relevant paragraph of lexgrog(1) or refer to it.
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+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-3.37 ====================
+
+Released: 2012-03-06, 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:
+
+Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
+Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
+Mark R. Bannister <cambridge@users.sourceforge.net>
+Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
+Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+New and rewritten pages
+-----------------------
+
+getent.1
+    Mark R. Bannister
+        New page to document 'getent' binary provided by glibc
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+bdflush.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note that bdflush() is deprecated, and does nothing
+
+nfsservctl.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note that this system call was removed in Linux 3.1
+
+ptrace.2
+    Denys Vlasenko  [Oleg Nesterov, Tejun Heo]
+        add extended description of various ptrace quirks
+            Changes include:
+
+            s/parent/tracer/g, s/child/tracee/g - ptrace interface now
+            is sufficiently cleaned up to not treat tracing process
+            as parent.
+
+            Deleted several outright false statements:
+            - pid 1 can be traced
+            - tracer is not shown as parent in ps output
+            - PTRACE_ATTACH is not "the same behavior as if tracee had done
+              a PTRACE_TRACEME": PTRACE_ATTACH delivers a SIGSTOP.
+            - SIGSTOP _can_ be injected.
+            - Removed mentions of SunOS and Solaris as irrelevant.
+            - Added a few more known bugs.
+
+            Added a large block of text in DESCRIPTION which doesn't focus
+            on mechanical description of each flag and operation, but rather
+            tries to describe a bigger picture. The targeted audience is
+            a person which is reasonably knowledgeable in Unix but did not
+            spend years working with ptrace, and thus may be unaware of its
+            quirks. This text went through several iterations of review by
+            Oleg Nesterov and Tejun Heo.
+            This block of text intentionally uses as little markup as possible,
+            otherwise future modifications to it will be very hard to make.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Global clean-up of page
+            * Wording and formatting fixes to existing text and
+              Denys Vlasenko's new text.
+            * Various technical amendments and improvements to
+              Denys Vlasenko's new text.
+            * Added FIXME for various problems with the current text.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Integrated changes after further review from Denys Vlasenko
+
+syscalls.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note that nfsservctl(2) was removed in Linux 3.1
+        Note that bdflush(2) is deprecated
+
+capabilities.7
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add CAP_WAKE_ALARM
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add various operations under CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+        Add perf_event_open(2) to CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+        Add VM86_REQUEST_IRQ vm86(2) command to CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+        Update CAP_NET_ADMIN with notes from include/linux/capability.h
+        Add nfsservctl(2) to CAP_SYS_ADMIN
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add ioctl(FIBMAP) under CAP_SYS_RAWIO
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add virtual terminal ioctl()s under CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Update CAP_NET_RAW with notes from include/linux/capability.h
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add F_SETPIPE_SZ case to CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
+        Add POSIX messages queues queues_max case to CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
+        Update CAP_SYS_RESOURCE with notes from include/linux/capability.h
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        SEE ALSO: Add libcap(3)
+
+ld.so.8
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add --adit command-line option