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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.71 ====================

Released: 2007-12-17


Contributors
------------

The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:

Alain PORTAL <alain.portal@free.fr>
John Sigler <linux.kernel@free.fr>
Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


Global changes
--------------

err.3
fts.3
getloadavg.3
queue.3
rcmd.3
rexec.3
stdin.3
elf.5
operator.7
    mtk
        Replaced the use of mdoc macros on these pagess with man
        macros.  The only pages in man-pages that still use
        mdoc macros are mdoc.7 and mdoc.samples.7.

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.


Deleted pages
-------------

TODO
    mtk
        This information is now on the website.


Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

Changes.old
    mtk
        Reformat various change log entries to use a consistent format.
        Expand Debian bug report numbers to be URLs.
        Other minor tidy-ups.

fcntl.2
    mtk
        Document the F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC operation, which is
        new in kernel 2.6.24.

listen.2
    Josh Triplett
        Fix incorrect path for somaxconn.

getpw.3
    Alain PORTAL
        Add ENOENT error to ERRORS.

sysconf.3
    Mats Wichmann
        Add documentation of _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN.

tty.4
    John Sigler
        Add tty_ioctl(4) to SEE ALSO list.

regex.7
    Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
        Separate text on back regerences from that describing basic regexps,
        as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379829.
    mtk
        Remove crufty text about word boundaries.