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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-09-19 21:40:03 +0000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2007-09-19 21:40:03 +0000
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+==================== Changes in man-pages-2.66 ====================
+
+Released: 2007-??-??
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Amit K. Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
+Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
+Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
+Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
+Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
+Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
+places.
+
+
+New pages
+---------
+
+fallocate.2
+ David Chinner, with some input from Amit Amora and mtk
+ Describes the fallocate() system call, new in 2.6.23.
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+close.2
+ Fredrik Noring
+ Add text cautioning about use of close() in
+ multithreaded programs.
+
+execve.2
+ Ollie Wild / mtk
+ Add text describing limit on total size of argv + envp,
+ and changes that occurred with 2.6.23.
+ mtk
+ Add getopt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
+
+open.2
+ mtk, Acked by Ulrich Drepper
+ Added description of O_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23) + other
+ minor fixes for O_DIRECT.
+
+recv.2
+ mtk
+ Added description of MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23).
+
+sysctl.2
+ mtk
+ Strengthened the warning against using this system call
+ and note that it may disappear in a future kernel version.
+
+rpc.3
+ Mats Wichmann
+ Fix type definition for 'protocol' in prototypes of pmap_set()
+ and pmap_getport().