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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.66 ====================
Released: 2007-10-01
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Amit K. Arora <aarora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
David Chinner <dgc@xxxxxxx>
Fredrik Noring <noring@xxxxxxxxxx>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@xxxxxxxxx>
Ollie Wild <aaw@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
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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fallocate.2
David Chinner, with some input from Amit Amora and mtk
Describes the fallocate() system call, new in 2.6.23.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
close.2
Fredrik Noring
Add text cautioning about use of close() in
multithreaded programs.
execve.2
Ollie Wild / mtk
Add text describing limit on total size of argv + envp,
and changes that occurred with 2.6.23.
mtk
Add getopt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
open.2
mtk, Acked by Ulrich Drepper
Added description of O_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23) + other
minor fixes for O_DIRECT.
recv.2
mtk
Added description of MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23).
sysctl.2
mtk
Strengthened the warning against using this system call
and note that it may disappear in a future kernel version.
rpc.3
Mats Wichmann
Fix type definition for 'protocol' in prototypes of pmap_set()
and pmap_getport().
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