==================== Changes in man-pages-3.07 ====================

Released: 2008-08-??, Konolfingen


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


Apologies if I missed anyone!


New and rewritten pages
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New and changed links
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Global changes
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nanosleep.2
inet_ntop.3
inet_pton.3
scanf.3
initrd.4
    mtk
        Fix mis-ordered (.SH) sections.


Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.


Changes to individual pages
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getitimer.2
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks getitimer() and setitimer() obsolete.

setpgid.2
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks setpgrp() obsolete.

utime.2
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks utime() obsolete.
	POSIX.1-2008 removes the POSIX.1-2001 LEGACY marking of utimes(),
	so mention of this point has been removed from the page.

vfork.2
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of vfork().  

bcmp.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bcmp().  

bsd_signal.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bsd_signal().  

bzero.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bzero().  

ctime.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks asctime(), asctime_r(), ctime(), and ctime_r()
    	as obsolete.

dprintf.3
    mtk
       These functions are nowadays in POSIX.1-2008.

ecvt.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of ecvt() and fcvt().

ftime.3
    mtk
         POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of ftime().  

ftw.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks ftw() as obsolete.

gcvt.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of gcvt().

getcwd.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of getwd().

gethostbyname.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of gethostbyname(),
	gethostbyaddr(), and h_errno.

gets.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of gets().

index.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of index() and rindex().

isalpha.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks isalpha() as obsolete.

makecontext.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of makecontext() and
	swapcontext().

mktemp.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of mktemp().

opendir.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 specifies fdopendir().

rand.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks rand_r() as obsolete.

pow.3
    mtk
        BUGS: described buggy NaN return when x is negative and y is large.
	See also: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3866.

scalb.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of scalb().

siginterrupt.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks siginterrupt() as obsolete.

sigset.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks sighold(), sigignore(), sigpause(), sigrelse(),
	and sigset() as obsolete.

tempnam.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks tempnam() as obsolete.

tmpnam.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks tmpnam() as obsolete.

toascii.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks toascii() as obsolete.

ualarm.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of ualarm().

ulimit.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 marks ulimit() as obsolete.

usleep.3
    mtk
        POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of usleep().