==================== Changes in man-pages-2.42 ====================

Released: 2006-11-24

Contributors
------------

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

Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>
Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
Evan Teran <eteran@alum.rit.edu>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


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


Changes to individual pages
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brk.2
    Evan Teran / mtk
        Add text describoing behaviour of the Linux brk() system call
        and point out that the glibc brk() wrapper provides different 
        behaviour.
    mtk
        Note that sbrk() is implemented as a library function in glibc 
        that calls the brk() system call.

futex.2
    mtk
        FUTEX_FD is scheduled for removal in June 2007.

getaddrinfo.3
getnameinfo.3
    Ulrich Drepper, with edits by mtk
        Add text describing Internationalized Domain Name
        extensions.
    
open.2
    mtk / Eduard Bloch
        Fix description of O_LARGEFILE to mention required feature test 
        macros.

ptrace.2
    Chuck Ebbert
        Since Linux 2.6.18, the PID of the new process is also available
        for PTRACE_EVENT_VFORKDONE.

syslog.3
    Doug Goldstein
        Fix header file required for vsyslog() in SYNOPSIS.

wcwidth.3
    Petr Baudis
        Fix CONFORMING TO.

core.5
    mtk
        Linux 2.4.21 added core_pattern (which was already in 2.6).
        Noted a few more reasons why a core dump file might not 
        be produced.
