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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.38 ====================
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2007-09-19 21:40:03 +00:00
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Released: ????-??-??, Christchurch
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2007-09-19 21:40:03 +00:00
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2007-11-24 13:50:54 +00:00
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Contributors
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2007-10-23 11:33:49 +00:00
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2011-09-16 02:56:20 +00:00
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The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
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2012-03-05 20:07:17 +00:00
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in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
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2011-09-16 02:56:20 +00:00
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incorporated in changes in this release:
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2007-09-20 18:15:23 +00:00
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2012-03-24 18:25:27 +00:00
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Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@gmail.com>
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Artyom Pervukhin <artyom@evasive.ru>
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Beňas Petr <xbenas00@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
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Ben Bacarisse <software@bsb.me.uk>
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Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
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David Prévot <david@tilapin.org>
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Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
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Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
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Iain Fraser <iainkfraser@gmail.com>
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Justin T Pryzby <justinp@norchemlab.com>
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Kirill Brilliantov <brilliantov@inbox.ru>
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Mark R Bannister <mark@proseconsulting.co.uk>
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Matthew Gregan <kinetik@flim.org>
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Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
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Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
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Sergei Zhirikov <sfzhi@yahoo.com>
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2008-10-07 08:54:13 +00:00
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2007-11-24 13:50:54 +00:00
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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2007-11-24 10:49:28 +00:00
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2010-09-05 16:04:17 +00:00
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2011-09-17 04:05:09 +00:00
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New and rewritten pages
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2012-03-24 18:25:27 +00:00
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get_nprocs_conf.3
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Beňas Petr
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New page documenting get_nprocs_conf(3) and get_nprocs(3)
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Michael Kerrisk
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Some additions and improvements
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malloc_get_state.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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New page documenting malloc_get_state(3) and malloc_set_state(3)
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mallopt.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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New man page for mallopt(3)
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mtrace.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Complete rewrite of page, adding much more detail
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scandirat.3
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Mark R Bannister
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New page for scandirat(3) (new in glibc 2.15)
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2012-03-05 20:07:17 +00:00
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Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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2012-03-24 18:25:27 +00:00
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posix_memalign.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document aligned_alloc(3)
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aligned_alloc() is new in C11.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document pvalloc(3)
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qsort.3
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Mark R Bannister
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Add documentation of qsort_r(3)
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Ben Bacarisse
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Improvements to Mark R Bannister's qsort_r() patch
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Michael Kerrisk
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Add VERSIONS section for qsort_r()
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2012-03-05 20:07:17 +00:00
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New and changed links
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2012-03-24 18:25:27 +00:00
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aligned_alloc.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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New link to posix_memalign.3
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get_nprocs.3
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Beňas Petr
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Link to new get_nprocs_conf.3 page
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malloc_set_state.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Link to new malloc_get_state.3 page
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pvalloc.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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New link to posix_memalign.3
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2012-03-05 20:07:17 +00:00
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Global changes
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2010-09-22 16:06:46 +00:00
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2012-03-24 18:25:27 +00:00
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Various pages
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Michael Kerrisk
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Global formatting fix: balance .nf/.fi pairs
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Various pages
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Michael Kerrisk
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Global fix: place sections in correct order
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Various pages
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Michael Kerrisk [Justin T Pryzby]
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Global fix: Remove duplicated words
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Remove instances of duplicate words found using Justin's
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grep-fu:
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for f in man?/*.[1-9]; do
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grep -HE ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1' "$f" |
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grep -Evw '(proc|hugetlbfs|XXX*|root|long) *\1';
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done | grep -E --colo ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1'
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Various pages
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Michael Kerrisk
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Correct order of SEE ALSO entries
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2009-09-30 03:21:56 +00:00
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2007-11-24 13:50:54 +00:00
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Changes to individual pages
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futimesat.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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PROTOTYPE: Correct header file and feature test macro requirements
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keyctl.2
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Bjarni Ingi Gislason
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Strip trailing tabs from source line
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664688
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ptrace.2
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Denys Vlasenko
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Document PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG for PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC
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Denys Vlasenko
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Various fixes to recent updates of this page
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symlinkat.2
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Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
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PROTOTYPE: Correct header file
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syscalls.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Remove unimplemented system calls from main syscall list
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The unimplemented system calls are in any case noted lower down
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in the page. Also: rearrange the text describing the unimplemented
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system calls.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Note a few system calls that were removed in Linux 2.6
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Michael Kerrisk
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Add process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2)
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unlinkat.2
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Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
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PROTOTYPE: Correct header file
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Michael Kerrisk
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PROTOTYPE: Add <fcntl.h> for AT_* constants
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utimensat.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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PROTOTYPE: Add <fcntl.h> for AT_* constants
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copysign.3
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Michael Kerrisk [Tolga Dalman]
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DESCRIPTION: Add a couple of examples
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malloc.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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NOTES: Add a short discussion of arenas
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Michael Kerrisk
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Replace discussion of MALLOC_CHECK_ with pointer to mallopt(3)
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: Add mtrace(3)
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SEE ALSO: add malloc_get_state(3)
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posix_memalign.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Rename memalign() argument
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Rename "boundary" to "alignment" for consistency
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with posix_memalign().
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Michael Kerrisk
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Improve discussion of feature test macros and header files for valloc(3)
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rtnetlink.3
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Kirill Brilliantov [Sergei Zhirikov]
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Fix example code, rta_len assignment should use RTA_LENGTH()
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See also http://bugs.debian.org/655088
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scandir.3
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Mark R Bannister
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SEE ALSO: Add scandirat(3)
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sigqueue.3
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Nix
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Remove rt_sigqueueinfo from TH line
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rt_sigqueueinfo() now has its own manual page, so should not
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be listed in the .TH line of this page.
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tzset.3
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Peter Schiffer
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Correct description for Julian 'n' date format
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The Julian 'n' date format counts starting from 0, not 1.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Add some clarifying remarks to discussion of Julian day formats
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packet.7
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Michael Kerrisk [Iain Fraser]
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Fix comment on 'sll_hatype' field
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tcp.7
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Michael Kerrisk [Artyom Pervukhin]
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Correct RFC for TIME_WAIT assassination hazards
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