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     mtk / Alain Portal
         Change references to "1003.2" to "POSIX.2".
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+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.41 ====================
+
+Released: 2006-10-12
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
+Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
+Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
+Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>
+Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
+Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
+Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
+Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
+Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
+Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
+Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
+Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@connecttech.com>
+Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+splice.2
+tee.2
+vmsplice.2
+    Jens Axboe / Michael Kerrisk
+        See also:
+            http://lwn.net/Articles/118760/
+            http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/
+            http://lwn.net/Articles/179492/
+            http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505
+            http://lwn.net/Articles/179434/
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+ldd.1
+    Stefan Puiu
+        Note glibc version where "ldd -u" appeared.
+
+execve.2
+    mtk
+        The PR_SET_NAME setting is not preserved across an execve().
+
+fork.2
+    mtk
+        Mappings marked with madvise(MADV_DONTFORK) are not inherited 
+        by child.
+
+getdtablesize.2
+    mtk
+        Noted that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) is preferred in portable 
+        applications.
+        
+getpagesize.2
+    mtk
+        Noted that sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) is preferred in portable 
+        applications.
+        _SC_PAGE_SIZE is available on most systems.
+        
+madvise.2
+    mtk
+        Document MADV_REMOVE, new in 2.6.16.
+        Document MADV_DONTFORK / MADV_DOFORK, new in 2.6.16.
+
+mount.2
+    mtk / Trond Myklebust
+        MNT_FORCE can cause data loss.
+        
+mmap.2
+    mtk
+        Added note on Linux's old (pre-2.6.12) buggy treatment of 
+        length==0.
+    Justin Pryzby / mtk
+        Added some EINVAL errors.
+
+mremap.2
+    mtk
+        Remove superfluous "#include <unistd.h>" from SYNOPSIS.
+
+msync.2
+    mtk
+        Added EBUSY error for case where MS_INVALIDATE is applied to 
+        a locked region.
+
+posix_fadvise.2
+    Andrew Morton
+        Since 2.6.18, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE is a no-op.
+
+prctl.2
+    Marcel Holtmann / mtk
+        Since kernel 2.6.18, setting 2 for PR_SET_DUMPABLE is no longer
+        possible.
+    Guillem Jover
+        Updated Linux versions where the options where introduced.
+        Added PR_SET_TIMING, PR_GET_TIMING, PR_SET_NAME, PR_GET_NAME,
+        PR_SET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_SET_FPEMU, PR_GET_FPEMU,
+        PR_SET_FPEXC, PR_GET_FPEXC.
+    Michael Kerrisk
+        Document PR_GET_ENDIAN and PR_SET_ENDIAN.
+    
+remap_file_pages.2
+    mtk
+        Add "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS.
+
+sync_file_range.2
+    mtk
+        Noted that sync_file_range() appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
+
+vfork.2
+    mtk
+        Noted interactions with fork handlers in multithreaded programs.
+        
+wait4.2
+    mtk
+        Added feature test macros to SYNOPSIS.
+        
+clog2.3
+    mtk / aeb / Kevin Ryde
+        Fix broken text in description.
+        See Debian bug 386214.
+
+clog10.3
+    Kevin Ryde
+        Fix broken text in description.
+        See Debian bug 386214.
+
+mq_receive.3
+    Britton Leo Kerin
+        Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; should be "ssize_t" not "mqd_t".
+        See Debian bug 387551.
+
+qsort.2
+    Hrvoje Niksic
+        Fix wording referring to the use of strcmp() in 'compar' 
+        function.
+        See Debian bug 391402.
+        
+sendfile.2
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO referring to new splice.2 page.
+
+termios.3
+    mtk
+        Documented IUTF8 (which was new in kernel 2.6.4).
+        
+tzset.3
+    mtk
+        Added some TZ examples.
+        See Debian bug 386087.
+
+proc.5
+    mtk
+        Added delayacct_blkio_ticks (new in 2.6.18) to /proc/PID/statm.
+
+ip.7
+    Stuart MacDonald / Andi Kleen
+        Fix discussion for TCP error queue /IP_RECVERR on TCP.
+
+pthreads.7
+    mtk
+        Noted effect of RLIMIT_STACK resource limit for NPTL.
+
+socket.7
+    Senthil Kumar
+        Place socket options in alphabetical order.
+