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-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2008-5-14
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2008-7-27
Copyright (C) 1992-2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
@@ -22,10 +22,18 @@ Version 2.9
* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
Implemented by Eric Blake.
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+* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, paccept, dup3, epoll_create2, pipe2
+
+* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
+ close-on-exec flag set
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+* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
+ flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
Version 2.8
-* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN.
+* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.