==================== Changes in man-pages-2.80 ====================

Released: 2008-??-??


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

Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


Global changes
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.


New pages
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random_r.3
    mtk, after a suggestion by aeb
        Documents random_r(3), srandom_r(3), initstate_r(32), and
	setstate_r(3), which are the reentrant equivalents of
	random(3), srandom(3), initstate(3), and setstate(3).


Changes to individual pages
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sched_setscheduler.2
    mtk, with input from Ingo Molnar
        Add description of SCHED_IDLE policy (new in 2.6.23).
	Tweak description of SCHED_BATCH.

setpriority.2
    mtk, after a note from Info Molnar
        Add text in NOTES about the punchier effect of nice values in 
	kernel 2.6.23 and later.
        Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-nice-design.txt to SEE ALSO list.
rand.3
    Tolga Dalman / aeb / mtk
        Remove outdated warning in NOTES; encourage the use of
	random(3) instead.

random.3
    aeb / mtk / Tolga Dalman
        Recommend use or random_r(3) for multithreaded applications
	that need independent, reproducible sequences of random numbers.

	Move references to "The Art of Computer Programming" and
	"Numerical Recipes", formerly in rand(3), to this page.

        Add drand48(93) to SEE ALSO list.