Merge changes between r6509 and r6780 from /fsf/trunk.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.eglibc.org/trunk@6785 7b3dc134-2b1b-0410-93df-9e9f96275f8d

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/libc/NEWS b/libc/NEWS
index eebc6b834..c3ceaba42 100644
--- a/libc/NEWS
+++ b/libc/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  2008-5-14
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  2008-8-2
 Copyright (C) 1992-2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
@@ -22,10 +22,26 @@ Version 2.9
 
 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
   Implemented by Eric Blake.
+
+* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, paccept, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
+
+* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
+  close-on-exec flag set.  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen.  In this mode writes writes don't
+  implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
+  use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
+  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
+  flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel.  Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu)
+  Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
 
 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.