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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.69 ====================

Released: 2007-??-??


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

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

Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Alain PORTAL <alain.portal@free.fr>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


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

*.?p
    mtk
        Many whitespace clean-ups in formatted output.

mprotect.2
bind.2
mq_notify.3
makecontext.3
fmemopen.3
    David Härdeman / mtk
        Rename error handling function in example program
        (s/die/handle_error/).

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.


New pages
---------



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

time.1
    Alain Portal
        Added "Linux User's Manual" to .TH line.

fcntl.2
    J. Bruce Fields
        Add warning that mandatory locking is unreliable.
    J. Bruce Fields
        Clarify details in description of file leases.
    J. Bruce Fields /mtk
        Minor wording edits.
    J. Bruce Fields
        Add F_GETLEASE under RETURN VALUE.

mmap.2
    mtk
        Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.

sched_setscheduler.2
    Mats Wichmann
        Add BUGS text noting that the return value from Linux
	sched_setschuler() does not conform to POSIX.

err.3
    mtk
        Remove HISTORY section.

fopen.3
    Mike Frysinger
        Document 'e' (close-on-exec) option, new in glibc 2.7.
       
getloadavg.3
    Alain Portal / mtk
        Remove HISTORY section.

printf.3
    Andries E. Brouwer / mtk
        Fix the discussion of stdarg macros in the description of
	vprintf() description.

sem_wait.3
    mtk
        Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.

sigsetops.3
    Mats Wichmann
        Note that sigset_t objects must be initialized 
	with sigemptyset() or sigfillset() before the other
	macros are employed.
    
ttyslot.3
    Alain Portal
       Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
       that is the manual page more likely to be found on current
       systems.  (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.)

sk98lin.4
    Maxime Vaudequin
        Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.

elf.5
    mtk
        Renamed HISTORY section to NOTES, and removed BSD specific info.

proc.5
    Maxime Vaudequin
        Mention grub(8) in same sentence as lilo(8).
    Maxime Vaudequin
        Improve description of /proc/sys/abi and
	/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe.

utmp.5
    Alain Portal
       Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
       that is the manual page more likely to be found on current
       systems.  (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.)

iso_8859-2.7
    Adam Borowski
        Reverse the 2.68 change (applied by mtk in response to Debian
	bug 445085) that replaced "Sorbian" with "Serbian".
	(Sorbian is a language of 50000 people in Brandenburg.)

tcp.7
    Maxime Vaudequin
        Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.