Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:09:12 +0200 | From | Michael Kerrisk <> | Subject | man-pages-2.55 is released |
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Gidday,
I just released man-pages-2.55.
This release is now available for download at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
and soon at:
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages
Changes that may be of interest to readers of this list are noted below.
Cheers,
Michael
PS A note of thanks to my employer... much of my work on man-pages is nowadays supported by Google, as a Google engineer 20% project.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.55 ====================
Global changes --------------
clone.2 getdents.2 gettid.2 ioprio_set.2 llseek.2 mmap2.2 modify_ldt.2 mq_getsetattr.2 pivot_root.2 quotactl.2 readdir.2 sysctl.2 syslog.2 tkill.2 mtk, after a note by Mike Frysinger Updated to reflect the fact that the _syscallN() macros have gone away,
Changes to individual pages ---------------------------
bind.2 mtk Expand example program, and move it to new EXAMPLE section. Added text pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
signal.2 mtk, after a note from Alexander Taboriskiy Strengthen warning against the use of signal(). Added siginterrupt(3) to SEE ALSO list. mtk Rewrote various parts; added an ERRORS section.
stat.2 mtk Added EXAMPLE program.
sysctl.2 mtk Improved the example program.
getaddrinfo.3 mtk Add example programs. Add getnameinfo() to SEE ALSO list.
inotify.7 mtk Added text describing what happens when the buffer given to read(2) is too small to return information about the next event, and noting the behaviour change in 2.6.21.
ld.so.8 mtk Simplify text describing --inhibit-rpath. mtk, after a note by John Reiser Describe use of $ORIGIN in rpath.
-- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
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