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         Remove "-*- nroff -*-" comment at top of source
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+==================== Changes in man-pages-3.50 ====================
+
+Released: 2013-03-15, 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:
+
+Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
+Bernhard Kuemel <bernhard@bksys.at>
+Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
+Erik Saule <erik.saule@bmi.osu.edu>
+Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
+Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org>
+Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
+Jose Luis Domingo Lopez <debian@24x7linux.com>
+Mark R Bannister <mark@proseconsulting.co.uk>
+Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
+Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+New and rewritten pages
+-----------------------
+
+canonicalize_file_name.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Rewrite page, adding much more detail
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Global fix: s/END_LICENSE/LICENSE_END/
+
+Various pages
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Global fix: s/bitmask/bit mask/
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+getent.1
+    Mark R Bannister
+        netgroup description incorrectly refers to initgroups
+
+capget.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Update URL for libcap
+
+fork.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Port access permission bits (ioperm()) are turned off in the child
+
+futex.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        'timeout' is a minimum duration that the call will wait, not a maximum
+
+ioperm.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Note that iopl() level of 3 is needed to access ports
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        'num' is *bits* not bytes!
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Linux 2.6.8 lifted the port limit to 65,536
+            See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/202624/
+            From: Stas Sergeev <stsp <at> aknet.ru>
+            Subject: [patch][rfc] Larger IO bitmap
+            Date: 2004-05-07 19:55:03 GMT
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        ioperm() operates on the calling *thread* (not process)
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Clarify meaning of 'turn_on' argument
+            Plus form formatting fixes.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Clarify that default state of permission bits in child is off
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        NOTES: add mention of /proc/ioports
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        SEE ALSO: add outb(2)
+
+iopl.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        CAP_SYS_RAWIO is required to *raise* the I/O privilege level
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Clarify that the two least significant bits of 'level' are what matter
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        SEE ALSO: add outb(2)
+
+syscalls.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add version information for all (other) syscalls
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add perfmonctl(2)
+
+futimes.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Jonathan Nieder]
+        ERRORS: Add ENOSYS for lutimes()
+            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620746
+
+getpass.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Erik Saule]
+        Suggest use of the ECHO flag as an alternative
+            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644261
+
+realpath.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document GNU extensions for EACCES and ENOENT errors
+
+stdarg.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs]
+        Describe va_copy()
+            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575077
+
+termios.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Bernhard Kuemel]
+        Mention that noncanonical mode does not do input processing
+            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=643854
+
+random.4
+    Elie De Brauwer
+        Document write and document the ioctl interface of /dev/random
+            The update consists out of two parts:
+             - a minor thing which just documents what happens if a write to
+               /dev/(u)random is performed, which is used in the example
+               script but not explicitly mentioned.
+             - the other (biggest) part is the documentation of the ioctl()
+               interface which /dev/(u)random exposes. This ioctl() lives in
+               drivers/char/random.c and the primitives can be found in
+               include/linux/random.h
+
+            One comment remains, there used to be an RNDGETPOOL ioctl() which
+            disappeared in v2.6.9. I found two patches on the net:
+            - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8.1/2.6.8.1-mm4/broken-out/dev-random-remove-rndgetpool-ioctl.patch
+            - https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/3/25/168
+
+            But as far as I can tell the first one got applied but the 2nd
+            one seems more correct. The result is that even today one can
+            still find traces of the RNDGETPOOL ioctl() in the header files.
+            Is this there for historical reasons or because it might break
+            userspace, even though using it will just give an EINVAL.
+
+bootparam.7
+    Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
+        Document 'rootfstype' option
+            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182014
+
+capabilities.7
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add various pieces under CAP_SYS_RAWIO
+            Info obtained by grepping the kernel source.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add CAP_SYS_RESOURCE /proc/PID/oom_score_adj case
+
+netlink.7
+    Andrey Vagin
+        Add a note about broadcast messages to multiple groups
+
+socket.7
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Florian Weimer]
+        Define _GNU_SOURCE to obtain the definition of 'struct ucred'
+            See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572210