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-==================== Changes in man-pages-5.10 ====================
+==================== Changes in man-pages-5.11 ====================
 
-Released: 2020-12-21, Munich
+Released: ????-??-??, Munich
 
 
 Contributors
@@ -10,341 +10,26 @@ 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:
 
-Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
-Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
-Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
-Arusekk <arek_koz@o2.pl>
-Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
-Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
-Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
-Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
-Davide Giorgio <davide@giorgiodavide.it>
-Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
-Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
-Jing Peng <pj.hades@gmail.com>
-John A. Leuenhagen <john@zlima12.com>
-Mathias Rav <m@git.strova.dk>
-Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>
-Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
-Peter Oskolkov <posk@google.com>
-Philip Rowlands <linux-kernel@dimebar.com>
-Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
-Ross Zwisler <zwisler@chromium.org>
-Sebastian Kirmayer <sebastian@kirmayer.de>
-наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
 
 Apologies if I missed anyone!
 
 
-Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
----------------------------------------------
+New and rewritten pages
+-----------------------
 
-access.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Document faccessat2()
-            faccessat2() was added in Linux 5.8 and enables a fix to
-            longstanding bugs in the faccessat() wrapper function.
 
-membarrier.2
-    Peter Oskolkov  [Alejandro Colomar]
-        Update for Linux 5.10
-            Linux kernel commit 2a36ab717e8fe678d98f81c14a0b124712719840
-            (part of 5.10 release) changed sys_membarrier prototype/parameters
-            and added two new commands [MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ
-            and MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ].
+Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
+---------------------------------------------
 
 
 New and changed links
 ---------------------
 
-faccessat2.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        New link to access.2
-
-CIRCLEQ_EMPTY.3
-CIRCLEQ_FIRST.3
-CIRCLEQ_FOREACH.3
-CIRCLEQ_FOREACH_REVERSE.3
-CIRCLEQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER.3
-CIRCLEQ_LAST.3
-CIRCLEQ_LOOP_NEXT.3
-CIRCLEQ_LOOP_PREV.3
-CIRCLEQ_NEXT.3
-CIRCLEQ_PREV.3
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Add missing links to circleq.3
-
-pthread_attr_getsigmask_np.3
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        New link to pthread_attr_setsigmask_np.3
-
 
 Global changes
 --------------
 
-Various pages
-    Alejandro Colomar
-        Use Oxford comma
-
 
 Changes to individual pages
 ---------------------------
 
-access.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        BUGS: note that faccessat() wrapper function emulation ignores ACLs
-
-bpf.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Place EXAMPLES section in correct location
-
-cacheflush.2
-    Alejandro Colomar
-        Document Architecture-specific variants
-    Alejandro Colomar  [Heinrich Schuchardt]
-        Document __builtin___clear_cache() as a more portable alternative
-
-chroot.2
-memfd_create.2
-tailq.3
-    Michael Kerrisk  [Alejandro Colomar]
-        Fix unbalanced .nf/.fi
-
-clock_getres.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Place ERRORS in alphabetical order
-
-clone.2
-sigaltstack.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        clone(CLONE_VM) disables the alternate signal stack
-
-getrlimit.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        State more precisely the range of kernel versions that had RLIMIT_LOCKS
-
-getrusage.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Note that the 'vtimes' symbol exists only up to glibc 2.32
-
-io_cancel.2
-io_destroy.2
-io_getevents.2
-io_setup.2
-io_submit.2
-    Alejandro Colomar
-        SYNOPSIS: s/io_context_t/aio_context_t/
-            Linux uses aio_context_t for these syscalls,
-            and it's the type provided by <linux/aio_abi.h>.
-            Use it in the SYNOPSIS.
-
-            libaio uses 'io_context_t', but that difference is already noted
-            in NOTES.
-
-io_setup.2
-    Alejandro Colomar
-        SYNOPSIS: return long
-
-link.2
-    Mathias Rav
-        ERRORS: add ENOENT when target is deleted
-            Linux kernel commit aae8a97d3ec30788790d1720b71d76fd8eb44b73 (part
-            of kernel release v2.6.39) added a check to disallow creating a
-            hard link to an unlinked file.
-
-llseek.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Note size of 'loff_t' type
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Point the reader to lseek64(3) for info about llseek(3)
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Some mild rewriting to ease reading of the info in this page
-
-mmap.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Clarify SIGBUS text and treatment of partial page at end of a mapping
-
-mount.2
-statfs.2
-    Ross Zwisler
-        Add NOSYMFOLLOW flags to mount(2) and statfs(2)
-
-msgctl.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Make comments in 'msqid_ds' definition more compact
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Place list of field descriptions in same order as structure definition
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Use field name "msg_cbytes" rather than "__msg_cbytes"
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Add description of 'msg_cbytes' field
-
-openat.2
-    Colin Ian King
-        Fix include path, should be linux/openat2.h
-
-perf_event_open.2
-    Namhyung Kim  [Alejandro Colomar]
-        Update man page with recent kernel changes
-    Alejandro Colomar
-        Assign calculated value explicitly to 'config'
-
-restart_syscall.2
-    Alejandro Colomar
-        SYNOPSIS: Fix restart_syscall() return type
-
-set_tid_address.2
-    Alejandro Colomar
-        SYNOPSIS: Fix set_tid_address() return type
-
-shmctl.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Place list of field descriptions in same order as structure definition
-
-sigaction.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Clarify description of SA_NODEFER
-            Clarify description of SA_NODEFER, and note interaction with
-            act.sa_mask.
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Add a cross-reference to signal(7) for further info on 'ucontext_t'
-
-sigaltstack.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Clarify that the alternate signal stack is per-thread
-            Clarify that the alternate signal stack is per-thread (rather
-            than process-wide).
-
-spu_create.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Add kernel version numbers for SPU_CREATE_AFFINITY_SPU/_MEM
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Relocate paragraph on 'mode' argument
-    Michael Kerrisk  [Alejandro Colomar]
-        Clarify that spu_create() now has 4 arguments but once had only 3
-
-subpage_prot.2
-    Alejandro Colomar
-        SYNOPSIS: Fix return type: s/long/int/
-
-syscalls.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Add process_madvise()
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Note that sysctl() was removed in Linux 5.5
-
-timer_getoverrun.2
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        timer_getoverrun() now clamps the overrun count to DELAYTIMER_MAX
-            See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12665.
-
-uselib.2
-posix_memalign.3
-profil.3
-rtime.3
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Remove some text about libc/libc5
-            With this change, there remain almost no vestiges of information
-            about the long defunct Linux libc.
-
-errno.3
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Note another possible cause of the EMFILE error
-
-getcontext.3
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Mention SA_SIGINFO flag when talking about 3-argument signal handler
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        SEE ALSO: add signal(7)
-
-list.3
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        NAME: remove LIST_PREV, which is not documented in this page
-
-lseek64.3
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Remove section numbers from interface list
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Remove sentence saying lseek64() is an alias for llseek()
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        NOTES: describe the origin of lseek64() in LFS
-
-nextafter.3
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Remove duplicate "BUGS" section heading
-
-pthread_tryjoin_np.3
-    Michael Kerrisk  [Mike Crowe]
-        Note that pthread_timedjoin_np() uses CLOCK_REALTIME, but there's a bug
-
-rcmd.3
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        SEE ALSO: remove intro(2)
-
-strnlen.3
-    Michael Kerrisk  [Heinrich Schuchardt]
-        Fix a small inconsistency in the text
-
-elf.5
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        SEE ALSO: add objcopy(1)
-
-filesystems.5
-    Ahelenia Ziemiańska  [Alejandro Colomar]
-        Fix link to user space tooling for ncpfs
-    Ahelenia Ziemiańska  [Alejandro Colomar]
-        Note ncpfs removal from kernel
-
-attributes.7
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        SEE ALSO: add signal-safety(7)
-
-fanotify.7
-    Amir Goldstein  [Jan Kara]
-        fix outdated description
-
-kernel_lockdown.7
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Remove unneeded quotes
-
-packet.7
-    Baruch Siach  [Alejandro Colomar]
-        Update references to kernel documentation
-
-pthreads.7
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Rephrase function list in terms of POSIX rather than SUS
-            The list was using an inconsistent mixture of "POSIX" and "SUS".
-
-signal.7
-    Michael Kerrisk  [Heinrich Schuchardt, Dave Martin]
-        Add some details on the execution of signal handlers
-            Add a "big picture" of what happens when a signal handler
-            is invoked.
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Add pidfd_send_signal() to list of APIs for sending signals
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Mention 'ucontext_t' in the discussion of signal handler execution
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        SEE ALSO: add swapcontext(3)
-
-signal-safety.7
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Note async-signal-safety details for errno
-
-standards.7
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Add URL for POSIX.1-2008/SUSv4
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Add LFS (Large File Summit)
-    Michael Kerrisk  [Rob Landley]
-        Fix some URLs for locations of the standards
-    Michael Kerrisk
-        Relocate the discussion on POSIX manual pages
-
-tcp.7
-    Alejandro Colomar  [Philip Rowlands]
-        tcp_syncookies: It is now an integer [0, 2]
-            Since Linux kernel 3.12, tcp_syncookies can have the value 2,
-            which sends out cookies unconditionally.