nptl: Add tst-robust-fork

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 GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1992-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ Version 2.25
 
   - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
 
-  - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl.
+  - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
+    fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
+    fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
 
   - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
     FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
@@ -137,14 +139,19 @@ Version 2.25
   “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
   “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
 
-* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT
+* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
   flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.  The option relied on a
   backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
   Internet.
 
-* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG defined
-  in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.  They were already
-  unimplemented.
+* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
+  RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
+  They were already unimplemented.
+
+* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
+  _res.flags are deprecated.  The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
+  removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
+  2553.  Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
 
 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
   <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
@@ -177,14 +184,25 @@ Version 2.25
   printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
   using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
 
+* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
+  program.  This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
+  flag.  The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
+  instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
+
 Security related changes:
 
-  On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
+* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
   have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
   missing .cantunwind annotation.  This has been observed to lead to a hang
   (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo.  Reported
   by Andreas Schwab.  (CVE-2016-6323)
 
+* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
+  dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
+  was used internally in the implementation.  The stub resolver now uses a
+  question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
+  (CVE-2015-5180)
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [The release manager will add the list generated by
@@ -3556,7 +3574,7 @@ Version 1.04
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 Copyright information:
 
-Copyright (C) 1992-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1992-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
    of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the