From 35129bc0e34e7fe7d9d129ae6ffc2cdfa25a8df2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland McGrath Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 09:54:57 +0000 Subject: * NEWS: Update 2.4 items. --- NEWS | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 41755c383b..c47a9772c6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2005-12-15 -Copyright (C) 1992-2002,2003,2004,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2006-03-01 +Copyright (C) 1992-2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU C library bug reports via @@ -27,8 +27,22 @@ Version 2.4 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we recommend using the stable 2.3 branch. -* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchownat, futimesat, renameat, - unlinkat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat. +* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream, + but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer. + +* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect. + +* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat, + futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat, + renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat. + +* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare, + inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch. + +* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess, + for compatibility with some other systems. + +* Timezone data updated to 2006b version. Version 2.3.6 @@ -1537,7 +1551,7 @@ Version 1.04 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright information: -Copyright (C) 1992-1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005 +Copyright (C) 1992-1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies -- cgit v1.2.3