Fedora 17 Update: man-pages-3.35-4.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-14453
2012-09-21 23:25:22
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Name        : man-pages
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 3.35
Release     : 4.fc17
URL         : http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
Summary     : Man (manual) pages from the Linux Documentation Project
Description :
A large collection of man pages (documentation) from the Linux
Documentation Project (LDP).

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Update Information:

This update fixes example on the init(3) man page, adds documentation about initgroups to the nsswitch.conf(5) man page, removes additional outdated kexec_load(2) man page which is now in upstream tar-ball and adds description of the single-request and single-request-reopen options to the resolv.conf(5) man page.
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ChangeLog:

* Thu Sep 20 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe at redhat.com> - 3.35-4
- added description of the single-request and single-request-reopen options
  to the resolv.conf(5) man page (#717770)
* Thu Sep 20 2012 Peter Schiffer <pschiffe at redhat.com> - 3.35-3
- resolves: #837090
  updated example on inet(3) man page - use fprintf(stderr,..) instead of perror
- resolves: #751429
  included initgroups database in the nsswitch.conf(5) man page
- resolves: #836438
  removed outdated kexec_load(2) man page from additional man pages - upstream
  now contains updated version
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #837090 - Man page for inet_aton provides incorrect example
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837090
  [ 2 ] Bug #751429 - initgroups not documented in nsswitch.conf(5)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751429
  [ 3 ] Bug #836438 - Typo/Outdated kexec_load(2) man page
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836438
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