NEWS: Fix typos, grammar, and missing words

Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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Mark Harris 2021-07-31 16:25:57 -07:00 committed by Carlos O'Donell
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@ -41,9 +41,10 @@ Major new features:
* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor set to 64 and only
supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is only
enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum version of 5.1.
This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
version of 5.1.
* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
@ -68,13 +69,13 @@ Major new features:
closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
greater than given integer. This function is a GNU extension, although it
also present in other systems.
greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
although it is also present in other systems.
* The posix_spawn_file_actions_closefrom_np function has been added, enabling
posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors great than or
equal to a giver integer. This function is a GNU extension, although
Solaris also provides a similar function.
* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
although Solaris also provides a similar function.
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
@ -109,11 +110,11 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
request. It should not be visible to application since the cancellation
request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS version) that could still
see spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
* Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)