Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:40:16 +1200 | Subject | man-pages-3.39 is released |
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Gidday,
I've released man-pages-3.39.tar.gz - man pages for Linux.
Tarball download: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html Git repository: http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git Online changelog: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.39
A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2012/04/man-pages-339-is-released.html
The current version of the pages is browsable at: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
A few changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of this list are given below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.39 ====================
New and rewritten pages -----------------------
malloc_trim.3 Michael Kerrisk New man page for malloc_trim(3)
malloc_usable_size.3 Michael Kerrisk New man page for malloc_usable_size(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages ---------------------------------------------
prctl.2 Cyrill Gorcunov Document PR_SET_MM (new in Linux 3.3)
Changes to individual pages ---------------------------
epoll_wait.2 Michael Kerrisk [Armin Rigo] Another thread can add to epoll instance while epoll_wait is blocked See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43072 Michael Kerrisk Clarify that epoll_pwait() blocks calling *thread*
fchmodat.2 Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger] Note difference between glibc wrapper and underlying system call The wrapper function has a 'flags' argument (which currently serves no purpose), while the underlying system call does not.
fcntl.2 Abhijith Das Explain behaviour of F_GETLEASE during lease break
poll.2 Michael Kerrisk [Michael Welsh Duggan] Document negative value in 'fd' field Michael Kerrisk Document semantics of passing zero in 'events' field
capabilities.7 Michael Kerrisk Add prctl(PR_SET_MM) to CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
netlink.7 Jeff Mahoney [Petr Gajdos] Note cases where nonprivileged users can use netlink multicast groups See also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754611
ld.so.8 Jonathan Nieder [Reuben Thomas] Document effect of hwcaps on search path Wording by Aurelien Jarno from Debian glibc's r4701 (2011-06-04).
Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/622385
-- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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