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     Michael Kerrisk  [Artyom Pervukhin]
         Correct RFC for TIME_WAIT assassination hazards
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+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-3.39 ====================
+
+Released: 2012-04-17, 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:
+
+Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
+Alexander Kruppa <akruppa@gmail.com>
+Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com>
+Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>
+Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
+Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
+Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
+Felix <fkater@googlemail.com>
+Jak <jak@gmx.ca>
+Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
+Jesus Otero <jesus.otero@rysg.es>
+Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
+Kevin O'Gorman <kevinogorman4@gmail.com>
+Mark R Bannister <mark@proseconsulting.co.uk>
+Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@cert.org>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
+Regid Ichira <regid23@yahoo.com>
+Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
+Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez <jimenezrick@gmail.com>
+Simone Piccardi <piccardi@truelite.it>
+Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
+<who@connect.carleton.ca>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+New and rewritten pages
+-----------------------
+
+malloc_trim.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        New man page for malloc_trim(3)
+
+malloc_usable_size.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        New man page for malloc_usable_size(3)
+
+
+Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
+---------------------------------------------
+
+prctl.2
+    Cyrill Gorcunov
+        Document PR_SET_MM (new in Linux 3.3)
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Various edits and improvements to Cyrill's patch
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+epoll_create.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Rework discussion of 'size' argument
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add .SS for description of epoll_create1()
+
+epoll_wait.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Armin Rigo]
+        Another thread can add to epoll instance while epoll_wait is blocked
+            See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43072
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Clarify that epoll_pwait() blocks calling *thread*
+        A few wording improvements
+
+fchmodat.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Mike Frysinger]
+        Note difference between glibc wrapper and underlying system call
+            The wrapper function has a 'flags' argument (which currently
+            serves no purpose), while the underlying system call does not.
+
+fcntl.2
+    Abhijith Das
+        Explain behaviour of F_GETLEASE during lease break
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Eric Blake]
+        Change type of arg from "long" to "int"
+            Various fcntl(2) commands require an integral 'arg'.
+            The man page said it must be "long" in all such cases.
+            However, for the cases covered by POSIX, there is an
+            explicit requirement that these arguments be "int".
+            Update the man page to reflect. Probably, all of the
+            other "long" cases (not specified in POSIX) should
+            be "int", and this patch makes them so. Based on a
+            note fromEric Blake, relating to F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC.
+
+gettimeofday.2
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Reorganize content
+            The main change is to move the historical information about
+            the 'tz_dsttime' to NOTES.
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Felix]
+        Note that compiler issues warnings if 'tv' is NULL
+
+mmap.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Kevin O'Gorman]
+        Clarify that this system call should not be invoked directly
+            See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42892
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Clarify NOTES discussion of mmap() versus mmap2()
+
+poll.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Michael Welsh Duggan]
+        Document negative value in 'fd' field
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document semantics of passing zero in 'events' field
+
+ptrace.2
+    Denys Vlasenko
+        Various fixes
+            For some reason, the PTRACE_TRACEME paragraph talks about some
+            general aspects of ptraced process behavior. It repeats the
+            "tracee stops on every signal" information even though that was
+            already explained just a few paragraphs before. Then it describes
+            legacy SIGTRAP on execve().
+
+            This patch deletes the first part, and moves the second part up,
+            into the general ptrace description. It also adds
+            "If PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC option is not in effect" to the description
+            of the legacy SIGTRAP on execve().
+
+            The patch also amends the part which says "For requests other
+            than PTRACE_KILL, the tracee must be stopped." - PTRACE_ATTACH
+            also doesn't require that.
+
+sigaction.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Andreas Jaeger, ]
+        Clarify that the use of SI_SIGIO is for Linux 2.2 only
+            See also http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6745
+
+sigprocmask.2
+    Mike Frysinger
+        ERRORS: add EFAULT
+
+times.2
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Simone Piccardi]
+        ERRORS: Add EFAULT
+
+div.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Reuben Thomas]
+        CONFORMING TO: Add C99
+
+fread.3
+    Regid Ichira
+        Clarify further that return value is number of items, not bytes
+            See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665780
+
+getaddrinfo.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Jak]
+        Correct type of ai_addrlen field
+
+malloc.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        SEE ALSO: add malloc_usable_size(3)
+        SEE ALSO: Add malloc_trim(3)
+
+mallopt.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Fix text describing M_PERTURB and free()
+        SEE ALSO: Add malloc_trim(3)
+
+memchr.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Reuben Thomas]
+        Remove mention of terminating null in description of rawmemchr()
+
+perror.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Jesus Otero]
+        Note that use of 'sys_errlist' is deprecated
+
+rcmd.3
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        glibc eventually added a declaration of iruserok() in version 2.12
+
+sysconf.3
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez]
+        Add mention of _SC_SYMLOOP_MAX
+
+nologin.5
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Tetsuo Handa]
+        nologin must not only exist, but *be readable* to be effective
+
+nsswitch.conf.5
+    Mark R Bannister
+        Significant rewrites and improvements
+            This patch applies to nsswitch.conf.5 in man-pages-3.36.
+
+            My changes almost completely rewrite large sections of the
+            man page. They are needed to add clarity, correct grammar,
+            reduce confusion, and bring up-to-date with the latest glibc.
+            I have checked the man page against the nss source code in
+            glibc 2.14.90.
+
+            Historical notes are demoted to the footer.
+
+            The rewrite makes the man page much clearer to
+            understand, more authoratitive, and easier to read.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Light edits to Mark Bannister's changes
+
+capabilities.7
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Add prctl(PR_SET_MM) to CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
+
+epoll.7
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Some minor clarifications at start of DESCRIPTION
+
+netlink.7
+    Jeff Mahoney  [Petr Gajdos]
+        Note cases where nonprivileged users can use netlink multicast groups
+            See also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754611
+
+unix.7
+    Michael Kerrisk  [Tetsuo Handa]
+        Add a detail on autobind feature
+
+ld.so.8
+    Jonathan Nieder  [Reuben Thomas]
+        Document effect of hwcaps on search path
+            Wording by Aurelien Jarno from Debian glibc's r4701 (2011-06-04).
+
+            Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/622385