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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.38 ====================

Released: 2006-08-03

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

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

Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Jens Aboe <axboe@suse.de>

Apologies if I missed anyone!

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

There was a major reworking of the CONFORMING TO sections
in most manual pages.
    mtk

    * generally try to rationalise the names used for standards.
      The preferred names are now documented as the head words
      of the list in standards(7).  For the future: there is
      probably no need to talk about anything more than
      C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001 (or later), xBSD, and SVr4.
      (In particular, I've eliminated most references to XPG
      and SVID, replacing them with references to SUS or SVr4.)

    * eliminate discussion of errors that can occur on other
      systems.  This information exists only patchily in the
      manual pages, is probably of limited use, is hard to maintain, 
      and was in some cases simply wrong (and probably always was).

    * Tried to ensure that those interfaces specified in C99 or 
      POSIX.1-2001 are marked as such in their manual pages.

intro.1
intro.2
intro.3
intro.4
intro.5
intro.7
feature_test_macros.7
    mtk
        Added SEE ALSO referring to new standards.7.

Changed instances of "HP UX" to "HP-UX".
    mtk

Changed instances of "DG-UX to "DG/UX"
    mtk

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.

New pages
---------

splice.2
        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/

standards.7
    mtk
        Based on material taken from intro.2, but expanded to
	include discussion of many additional standards.
	
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

bind.2
    mtk
         Minor wording change for ENOTSOCK error.

intro.2
     mtk
         Removed information on standards to new standards.7.