==================== Changes in man-pages-2.37 ====================

Released: 2006-08-02

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

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

Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Dean Gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Frank van Viegen <F.C.vanViegen@UTwente.nl>
Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Ville Skytt <ville.skytta@iki.fi>

Apologies if I missed anyone!

Global changes
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Thomas Huriaux / mtk

        Various formatting found as a result of reviewing the following
        command were fixed.

        for a in  $(wc man?/*.?| awk '$1 > 2 ' | grep -v total); do 
            echo $a; groff -Tascii -wmac -mman $a > /dev/null; 
        done 2>&1 | less

        See Debian Bug# 378544.
                
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.

New pages
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readlinkat.2
    mtk (after prompting from Ivana Varekova)
        New page for readlinkat(2), new in kernel 2.6.16.
        
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

ldd.1
    Ville Skytt
        Document "-u" option.

chdir.2
    mtk
        Noted effect of fork() and execve() on current working directory.

chroot.2
    mtk
        Noted effect of fork() and execve() on root directory.

epoll_ctl.2
    Frank van Viegen / mtk
        Fix description of EBADF error.

exevce.2
    mtk
        Add text noting that effective IDs are copied to 
        saved set-IDs during execve().
        See Debian bug 379297.

getitimer.2
    mtk
        Noted effect of fork() and execve() on interval tiemrs.
         
getrlimit.2
    mtk
        Noted effect of fork() and execve() on resource limits.

getpriority.2
    mtk
        Noted effect of fork() and execve().

inotify_add_watch.2
    mtk
        Some rewording; included text describing required file 
        permissions.

intro.2
    mtk
        Revised description of standards under CONFORMING TO.

makecontext.3
    Helmut Grohne / mtk
        Point out that args following 'argc' are int.
    mtk
        Added an example program.
        Various minor wording fixes.

mmap.2
    mtk
        Expand description of MAP_POPULATE.
    mtk, after prompting by Dan Gaudet
        Expand description MAP_NONBLOCK.
    mtk
        Various minor formatting fixes.
        
openat.2
    mtk
        Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.

nanosleep.2
    mtk
        Noted buggy behaviour in Linux 2.4 and earlier when
        nanosleep() is restarted after receiving stop+SIGCONT signals.
nice.2
    mtk
        Very minor rewording.
        
readlink.2
    mtk
        Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.

sched_setscheduler.2
     mtk
         Noted preservation of scheduling parameters across execve().
         
setpgid.2
     mtk
         Noted effect of fork() and execve() on process group ID.
         
setsid.2
     mtk
         Noted effect of fork() and execve() on session ID.
         
umask.2
    mtk
        Noted effect of fork() and execve() on umask.

atexit.3
    mtk
        Noted inheritance of registrations across fork().

capabilities.7
    mtk
        Added material on privileges required for move_pages().
        CLONE_NEWNS needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
        keyctl(KEYCTL_CHOWN) and keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM) require
        CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
