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+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.27 ====================
+
+Released: 2006-??-??
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
+Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
+Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
+Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
+Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
+Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
+Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
+Nicolas Francois <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
+Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
+Siward de Groot <siward@wanadoo.nl>
+Steve Beattie <sbeattie@suse.de>
+Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+clone.2
+getdents.2
+gettid.2
+llseek.2
+mmap2.2
+modify_ldt.2
+pivot_root.2
+quotactl.2
+readdir.2
+sysctl.2
+syslog.2
+tkill.2
+    mtk, aeb, Steve Beattie
+        Added comment in SYNOPSIS to note that syscall(2) may be 
+        preferable over _syscallN (see intro(2)).
+
+Various minor formatting changes were done on a range of 
+pages in Section 7.  (No content was changed.)
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+intro.2
+    mtk, aeb, Steve Beattie
+        Added some notes on syscall(2) versus _syscall.
+    
+openat.2
+    mtk
+        New page describing openat(2), added in kernel 2.6.16,
+        and some notes on rationale for the at*(2) system calls.
+
+mbind.2
+    Andi Kleen, Christoph Lameter, mtk
+       Added MPOL_MF_MOVE and MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL descriptions,
+       from numactl-0.9.2 man page.
+       Plus a few other smaller fixes.
+
+ushare.2
+    mtk
+        New page describing unshare(2), added in kernel 2.6.16.
+
+fexecve.3
+    mtk
+        New page describing fexecve(3).
+
+futimes.3
+    mtk
+        New page describing futimes(3).
+
+undocumented.3
+    mtk
+        Updated to remove a few function names that are now documented.
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+clone.2
+fork.2
+vfork.2
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO pointing to new unshare.2.
+
+execve.2
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3.
+
+msgctl.2
+msgget.2
+msgop.2
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO pointing to mq_overview.7.
+
+open.2
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO pointing to new openat.2.
+        
+        Split out part of the RETURN VALUE text into separate 
+        NOTES section.
+
+        Modified wording referring that refers to raw(8) to
+        indicate that this interface is deprecated.
+
+poll.2
+    mtk
+        Added discussion of ppoll(2), which is new in 2.6.16.
+    
+ppoll.2
+    mtk
+        New link to poll.2.
+
+recvmsg.2
+sendmsg.2
+    mtk / Paul Brook
+        Added text to note that although POSIX says msg_controllen 
+        should be socklen_t, glibc actually uses size_t.
+        See Debian bug 356502 and the associated glibc bug report.
+        http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2448.
+    mtk
+        Various formatting fixes.
+
+select.2
+    mtk
+        Updated to reflect the fact that pselect() has been implemented
+        in the kernel in 2.6.16; various other minor wording changes.
+
+        pselect() prototype needs "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600".
+
+tempnam.3
+    Justin Pryzby
+        Clean up description of EEXIST error.
+        Debian bug 357893
+
+unlink.2
+    mtk
+        Added a little extra text to clarify EISDIR vs EPERM.
+
+utime.2
+    mtk
+        Added new SEE ALSO entry pointing to new futimes.3 page.
+
+exec.3
+    mtk
+        Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3.
+
+shm_unlink.3
+    mtk
+        New link to shm_open.3 (should have been made when page
+        was originally written).
+
+swab.3
+    Walter Harms
+        Add needed "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE".
+        
+capabilities.7
+    mtk
+        Various changes to bring this page closer to
+        current kernel versions.
+
+inotify.7
+    mtk
+        Noted that glibc 2.4 is required to get glibc support
+        for inotify.
+
+mq_overview.7
+    mtk
+        Some rewording and added a few words about System V 
+        message queues.
+
+netlink.7
+    Hasso Tepper
+        Substantial updates to various parts of this page.
+    mtk, Alain Portal
+        Minor fixes
+
+pthreads.7
+    mtk
+        Updated to reflect that the NPTL limitation that only the main 
+        thread could call setsid() and setpgid() was removed in 2.6.16.
+
+raw.7
+    Hasso Tepper
+        Removed text implying that only in kernel 2.2 does IP_HDRINCL 
+        prevent datagrams from being fragmented.
+
+socket.7
+    mtk
+        Documented SO_SNDBUFFORCE and SO_RCVBUFFORCE socket options,
+        new in 2.6.14.
+
+        Placed socket options in alphabetical order.
+
+