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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.42 ====================
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Released: 2006-11-24
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Contributors
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------------
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The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
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been incorporated in changes in this release:
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
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Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>
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Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
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Evan Teran <eteran@alum.rit.edu>
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Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
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Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
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Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
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Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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Global changes
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--------------
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Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
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places.
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Changes to individual pages
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brk.2
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Evan Teran / mtk
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Add text describoing behaviour of the Linux brk() system call
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and point out that the glibc brk() wrapper provides different
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behaviour.
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mtk
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Note that sbrk() is implemented as a library function in glibc
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that calls the brk() system call.
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futex.2
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mtk
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FUTEX_FD is scheduled for removal in June 2007.
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getaddrinfo.3
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getnameinfo.3
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Ulrich Drepper, with edits by mtk
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Add text describing Internationalized Domain Name
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extensions.
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open.2
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mtk / Eduard Bloch
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Fix description of O_LARGEFILE to mention required feature test
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macros.
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ptrace.2
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Chuck Ebbert
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Since Linux 2.6.18, the PID of the new process is also available
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for PTRACE_EVENT_VFORKDONE.
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syslog.3
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Doug Goldstein
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Fix header file required for vsyslog() in SYNOPSIS.
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wcwidth.3
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Petr Baudis
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Fix CONFORMING TO.
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core.5
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mtk
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Linux 2.4.21 added core_pattern (which was already in 2.6).
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Noted a few more reasons why a core dump file might not
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be produced.
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