Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:52:16 +0100 | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Subject | man-pages-3.63 is released |
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Gidday,
The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-3.63 - man pages for Linux
He also proudly announces that man-pages recently passed 10,000 commits since he took over as maintainer in 2004 (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MichaelKerrisk/posts/SVH47FGnQCN ).
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_3.63
A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/03/man-pages-363-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-3.63 ====================
Released: 2014-03-18, Munich
New and rewritten pages -----------------------
duplocale.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting duplocale(3)
newlocale.3 Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger] New page documenting newlocale(3) and freelocale(3)
uselocale.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting uselocale(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages ---------------------------------------------
open.2 Michael Kerrisk Document O_DSYNC and rewrite discussion of O_SYNC
proc.5 Michael Kerrisk Document /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid
locale.7 Michael Kerrisk Document LC_ADDRESS Document LC_IDENTIFICATION Document LC_MEASUREMENT Document LC_NAME Document LC_PAPER Document LC_TELEPHONE
Changes to individual pages ---------------------------
readahead.2 Phillip Susi [Corrado Zoccolo, Gregory P. Smith, Zhu Yanhai, Michael Kerrisk, Christoph Hellwig] Don't claim the call blocks until all data has been read The readahead(2) man page was claiming that the call blocks until all data has been read into the cache. This is incorrect.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54271
fts.3 Christoph Hellwig [Michael Kerrisk] The fts(3) API does not work with LFS builds As pointed out during a recent discussion on libc-hacker the fts(3) APIs can't be used with large file offsets:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15838
core.5 Mike Frysinger [Michael Kerrisk] Document core_pattern %d specifier Document %P core_pattern specifier
-- 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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