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         Rename the 'flag' argument to 'cmd', since that is more meaningful,
         and also what is used in the kernel source.
         Other minor wording changes.
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+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.79 ====================
+
+Released: 2008-03-07
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
+Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
+Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
+Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
+Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
+Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Lasse Kärkkäinen <tronic@trn.iki.fi>
+Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Ron Burk <ronburk@gmail.com>
+Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
+Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
+Walter Harms <WHarms@bfs.de>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+timerfd_create.2
+    mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
+        Documents the timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and
+        timerfd_gettime() system calls, which are new in 2.6.25.
+
+
+New links
+---------
+
+timerfd_gettime.2
+timerfd_settime.2
+    mtk
+        Links to new timerfd_create.2 page.
+
+eventfd_read.3
+eventfd_write.3
+    mtk
+        Links to eventfd.2.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+Makefile
+    aeb
+        Remove code relating to man1/README, which no longer exists.
+
+execve.2
+    mtk
+        Clarify detail of RLIMIT_STACK/4 limit for argv+environ.
+
+getitimer.2
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.
+
+getrusage.2
+    mtk
+        Minor rewordings.
+
+open.2
+    Michael Haardt
+        Move discussion of 'mode' argument under description of O_CREAT.
+
+signalfd.2
+    mtk
+        Fix type for 'ssi_ptr' field.
+        See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2008-01/msg00002.html.
+
+syscalls.2
+    mtk
+        Add timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime()
+        to list.
+
+syslog.2
+    Jeremy Kerr
+        Add info on command type 10.
+        Add details on types 6, 7, 8, and 9.
+        Minor grammar fix.
+    mtk
+        Update LOG_BUF_LEN details.
+        Update RETURN VALUE section.
+        Notes capability requirements under EPERM error.
+        Minor fix to description of type==3 and type==4.
+        Other minor edits.
+
+ctime.3
+    Walter Harms
+        Note that POSIX requires localtime() to act as though tzset()
+        was called, but localtime_r() does not have the same requirement.
+        See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2034/
+
+getaddrinfo.3
+    mtk
+        Clarify discussion of NULL 'hints' argument; other minor rewrites.
+    mtk / Sam Varshavchik
+        Remove some duplicated text.
+
+malloc.3
+    Lasse Kärkkäinen / Mike Frysinger / mtk
+        Clarify description of realloc() behavior for
+        ((size == 0) && (ptr != NULL)).
+
+posix_fallocate.3
+    Samuel Thibault
+        s/stdlib.h/fcntl.h/ in SYNOPSIS.
+
+proc.5
+    Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
+        Update /proc/[number]/cmdline description.
+        It used to be true that the command line arguments were
+        not accessible when the process had been swapped out.
+        In ancient kernels (circa 2.0.*) the problem was that the
+        kernel relied on get_phys_addr to access the user space buffer,
+        which stopped working as soon as the process was swapped out.
+        Recent kernels use get_user_pages for the same purpose and thus
+        they should not have that limitation.
+
+epoll.7
+    Davide Libenzi / mtk
+        Clarify the somewhat unintuitive behavior that occurs if a file
+        descriptor in an epoll set is closed while other file descriptors
+        referring to the same underlying open file description remain
+        open.
+        See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/596462/.
+    mtk
+        Clarify error that occurs if we add an epoll fd to its own set.
+    mtk
+        A few minor rewordings.
+    mtk, after a note by Chris Heath
+        Rework Q1/A1, describing what happens when adding the same
+        file descriptor twice to an epoll set, and when adding duplicate
+        file descriptors to the same epoll set.
+    Heikki Orsila / mtk / Davide Libenzi
+        Clarify Q9/A9 to discuss packet/token-oriented files.
+    mtk, after comments by Devide Libenzi and Chris Heath
+        Added Q0/A0, making explicit that the key for items in an epoll
+        set is [file descriptor, open file description].
+    mtk, after a note by Ron Burk
+        Change A3, to note that when events are available,
+        the epoll file descriptor will indicate as being readable.
+    mtk
+        Add some further explanation to Q5/A5 about why an epoll file
+        descriptor cannot be passed across a Unix domain socket.
+
+posixoptions.7
+    mtk
+        Add SEE ALSO entry for standards(7).
+
+regex.7
+    mtk
+        Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO.
+        See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348552.
+
+standards.7
+    mtk
+        Add SEE ALSO entry for posixoptions(7).
+
+time.7
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.