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     mtk / Jeremy Kerr
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+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.77 ====================
+
+Released: 2008-01-31
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
+Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@chezphil.org>
+Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
+Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
+WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+stdarg.3
+bootparam.7
+    Thomas Huriaux
+        Fix broken use of single quotes at start of line,
+        as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462636
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+remove_COLOPHON.sh
+    mtk
+        Script to remove the COLOPHON section from the man pages provided
+        as command-line arguments.  This is useful to remove the COLOPHON
+        sections from all of the man pages in two different release trees
+        in order to do a "diff -ruN" to see the "real" differences
+        between the trees.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+fcntl.2
+    mtk
+        Replace tables with .TP macros.
+
+fork.2
+    mtk
+        Added discussion of directory streams.
+        Removed "#include <sys/types>" from SYNOPSIS.
+        Changed authorship notice.
+
+futex.2
+    mtk
+        Add ENOSYS error to errors.
+    Phil Endecott
+        Explicitly describe return value in the event of an error.
+
+inotify_add_watch.2
+    mtk
+        Minor wording changes.
+
+splice.2
+    WANG Cong
+        Fix types for 2 and 4 arguments in splice prototype.
+
+wait.2
+    Phil Endecott
+        Clarify description of return value for WNOHANG.
+
+tkill.2
+    mtk
+        Rewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by
+        tgkill().
+
+alloca.3
+    mtk
+        Change description in NAME section.
+        Various rewrites and additions (including notes on longjmp() and
+        SIGSEGV).
+    mtk / Vincent Lefevre
+        Weaken warning against use of alloca(), and
+        point out some cases where it can be useful;
+        as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461100.
+
+bootparam.7
+    Pavel Heimlich
+        Remove junk line.
+
+inotify.7
+    mtk
+        Replace tables with .TP macros.
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