in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
incorporated in changes in this release:
+Alexander Monakov <amonakov@ispras.ru>
+Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
+Archie Cobbs <archie.cobbs@gmail.com>
+Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
+Colin Rice <colin@daedrum.net>
+Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
+Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
+Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
+Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
+Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
+H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
+Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
+Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
+Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
+Laurent Georget <laurent.georget@supelec.fr>
+Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
+Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
+Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
+Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
+Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
+Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
+Phil Blundell <pb@pbcl.net>
+Richard Voigt <richardvoigt@gmail.com>
+Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
+Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
+Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
+Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
+Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>
+Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
+Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
+Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
+Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
+
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
+futex.2
+ Michael Kerrisk, Thomas Gleixner, Torvald Riegel [Davidlohr Bueso, Heinrich Schuchardt, Darren Hart, Rusty Russell, Pavel Machek, Rich Felker]
+ Rewrite and massively expand page
+
+membarrier.2
+ Mathieu Desnoyers [Michael Kerrisk]
+ New page documenting membarrier() system call
+
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
+mlock.2
+ Eric B Munson [Michal Hocko, Vlastimil Babka, Michael Kerrisk]
+ Document mlock2(2) and MCL_ONFAULT
+
New and changed links
---------------------
+mlock2.2
+ Eric B Munson
+ New link to mlock.2
+
Global changes
--------------
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ ERRORS: standardize text for EMFILE error
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ ERRORS: standardize error text for ENOTSOCK error
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ ERRORS: standardize text for ENFILE error
+
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
+clock_getres.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
+
+epoll_create.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ ERRORS: add another EMFILE error case
+
+fanotify_init.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ ERRORS: add an EMFILE error case
+
+fork.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Child of MT-process is restricted to async-signal-safe functions
+
+getcpu.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
+
+getrlimit.2
+ Michael Kerrisk [Lennart Poettering]
+ The init of measurement for RLIMIT_RSS is bytes, not pages
+
+get_robust_list.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Reword EINVAL error text
+
+gettimeofday.2
+ Carlos O'Donell
+ Expand on the historical meaning of tz_dsttime
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
+
+inotify_init.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ ERRORS: add an EMFILE error case
+
+personality.2
+ Dmitry V. Levin
+ Note kernel and glibc versions that introduced this system call
+
+poll.2
+ Richard Voigt
+ timeout_ts is a pointer, so use -> not . for member access
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Shorten name of timeout argument for ppoll()
+ The name is overly long, and does not hint at the fact
+ that this argument is a pointer. Fix this by renaming:
+ s/timeout_ts/tmo_p/
+
+sendfile.2
+ Laurent Georget
+ Document more ERRORS
+
+sigreturn.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
+
+socketcall.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Since Linux 4.3, x86-32 provides direct system calls for the sockets API
+
+time.2
+ Zack Weinberg
+ Explain why the glibc time() wrapper never sets 'errno'
+ Michael Kerrisk [H.J. Lu]
+ Where time() is provided by vDSO, an invalid address may give SIGSEGV
+ Michael Kerrisk [Paul Eggert]
+ Describe EOVERFLOW details
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Rename 't' argument to 'tloc'
+
+dlerror.3
+ Michael Kerrisk [Jonny Grant]
+ Clarify that the string returned by dlerror() is null terminated
+
+dlopen.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Include a shell session showing build/run in EXAMPLE
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Change arguments to main() to "void" in EXAMPLE
+
+drand48.3
+ Michael Kerrisk [Vincent Lefevre]
+ Correct descriptions of ranges returned by these functions
+ See http://bugs.debian.org/803459
+
+errno.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Note probable cause of ENFILE error
+
+fnmatch.3
+ Pádraig Brady
+ Describe the FNM_EXTMATCH flag and pattern syntax
+
+iconv.3
+ Andries E. Brouwer
+ NOTES: describe correct usage for flushing partially buffered input
+
+random_r.3
+ Michael Kerrisk [Archie Cobbs]
+ Clarify need to use initstate_r()
+
+tzset.3
+ Carlos O'Donell
+ Clarify "daylight" and remove erroneous note
+
+random.4
+ Michael Kerrisk [Tom Gundersen]
+ Rework example scripts to assume 'poolsize' unit is bits, not bytes
+ Michael Kerrisk [Walter Harms]
+ Use modern command substitution syntax in shell session log
+
+proc.5
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Reaching /proc/sys/fs/file-max limit normally produces an ENFILE error
+
+futex.7
+ Heinrich Schuchardt
+ SEE ALSO updates
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Note some other locking primitives that are built with futexes
+ Heinrich Schuchardt
+ NPTL, avoid abbreviation
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Note that a futex is 4 bytes on all platforms
+
+vdso.7
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Add note on strace(1) and vDSO
+
+ld.so.8
+ H.J. Lu [Michael Kerrisk]
+ Document LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Clarify setting of LD_BIND_NOT
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Clarify setting of LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Clarify setting of LD_TRACE_PRELINKING
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Clarify some details for LD_SHOW_AUXV
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