Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Jan 2014 07:36:31 +1300 | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Subject | man-pages-3.56 is released |
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Gidday,
I've released man-pages-3.55 - man pages for Linux.
Tarball download: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html Git repository: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/ Online changelog: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.55
A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/01/man-pages-356-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-3.56 ====================
New and rewritten pages -----------------------
vdso.7 Mike Frysinger New page documenting the vDSO mapped into each process by the kernel
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages ---------------------------------------------
reboot.2 Elie De Brauwer Document LINUX_REBOOT_SW_SUSPEND
Changes to individual pages ---------------------------
close.2 Michael Kerrisk [P?draig Brady] Note that errors from close() should be used only for diagnosis In particular, retrying after EINTR is a bad idea.
See http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=529
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/37702 Subject: [RFC][BZ #14627] Make linux close errno to EINPROGRESS when interrupted in signal.
perf_event_open.2 Vince Weaver [Sudhanshu Goswami] Clarify issues with the disabled bit Clarify the perf_event_open behavior with respect to the disabled bit and creating event groups. Vince Weaver [Sudhanshu Goswami] Clarify issues with the exclusive bit Warn that using the perf_event_open "exclusive" bit, while it might seem like a good idea, might lead to all 0 results in some common usage cases.
setpgid.2 Michael Kerrisk [Joseph S. Myers] BSD getpgrp() and setpgrp() go away in glibc 2.19
socket.2 Michael Kerrisk [Dongsheng Song] Remove crufty statement that AF_INET does not support SOCK_SEQPACKET Linux AF_INET supports SOCK_SEQPACKET via SCTP.
dlopen.3 Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger] Update remarks on cast needed when assigning dlsym() return value POSIX.1-2013 eases life when casting the dlsym() return value to a function pointer
setjmp.3 Michael Kerrisk [Joseph S. Myers] BSD setjmp() semantics go away in glibc 2.19
sigpause.3 Michael Kerrisk [Joseph S. Myers] BSD sigpause() goes away in glibc 2.19
credentials.7 Michael Kerrisk List APIs that operate on process groups Michael Kerrisk Add details on controlling terminal and foreground/background jobs
feature_test_macros.7 Michael Kerrisk Document _DEFAULT_SOURCE Michael Kerrisk [Joseph S. Myers] From glibc 2.19, _BSD_SOURCE no longer causes __FAVOR_BSD Starting with glibc 2.19, _BSD_SOURCE no longer causes BSD definitions to be favored in cases where standards conflict.
man-pages.7 Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger] Add STYLE GUIDE section Incorporate some of the existing material in the page into the STYLE GUIDE, and add a lot more material, mainly drawn from the "Global changes" sections in the release changelogs. packet.7 Willem de Bruijn [Daniel Borkmann] Document fanout, ring, and auxiliary options This patch adds descriptions of the common packet socket options PACKET_AUXDATA, PACKET_FANOUT, PACKET_RX_RING, PACKET_STATISTICS, PACKET_TX_RING and the ring-specific options PACKET_LOSS, PACKET_RESERVE, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, PACKET_VERSION Michael Kerrisk Add kernel version numbers for PACKET_VERSION and PACKET_TIMESTAMP
-- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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