Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:19:19 +0200 | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Subject | man-pages-3.75 is released |
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Gidday,
The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-3.75 - 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_3.75
A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/10/man-pages-375-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-3.75 ====================
New and rewritten pages -----------------------
pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np.3 Robert Schweikert [Michael Kerrisk] New page documenting pthread_rwlockattr_[sg]etkind_np(3) Documents pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np(3) and pthread_rwlockattr_getkind_np(3).
Changes to individual pages ---------------------------
readv.2 Michael Kerrisk The raw preadv() and pwritev() syscalls split 'offset' into 2 arguments
signal.7 Michael Kerrisk pthread_mutex_lock() and pthread_cond_wait() are restartable pthread_mutex_lock(, pthread_cond_wait(), and related APIs are automatically restarted if interrupted by a signal handler.
unix.7 Michael Kerrisk [Carlos O'Donell, David Miller, Tetsuo Handa] Various additions and rewordings Notable changes: * Clarify some details for pathname sockets. * Add some advice on portably coding with pathname sockets. * Note the "buggy" behavior for pathname sockets when the supplied pathname is 108 bytes (after a report by Tetsuo Handa).
-- 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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