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@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ Major new features:
a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
+* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
+ execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
+ /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
+ supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs