Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Date | Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:54:08 +0200 | Subject | man-pages-3.42 is released |
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Gidday,
I've released man-pages-3.42.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_3.42
A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2012/08/man-pages-342-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-3.42 ====================
Changes to individual pages ---------------------------
ldd.1 Michael Kerrisk Add security note on untrusted executables See also http://www.catonmat.net/blog/ldd-arbitrary-code-execution/ and http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html
clone.2 Michael Kerrisk Rewrite discussion of sys_clone
ioprio_set.2 Colin McCabe Clarify the multithreaded behavior of ioprio_set(2) Michael Kerrisk [Марк Коренберг, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo] Document who==0 for IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS and IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP For IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, who==0 means operate on the caller. For IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP, who==0 means operate on the caller's process group.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652443
migrate_pages.2 Michael Kerrisk [Christoph Lameter, JoonSoo Kim] Fix description of return value
ptrace.2 Denys Vlasenko Explain WNOHANG behavior and EINTR bug
capabilities.7 Michael Kerrisk Document CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND
socket.7 Martin H Document SO_MARK socket option
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