-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2005-12-15
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+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2006-03-01
+Copyright (C) 1992-2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/>
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.
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