From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Kerrisk Subject: man-pages-2.69 released Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:39:35 +0100 Message-ID: <47543F57.10109@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Adam Borowski , "J. Bruce Fields" , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Da Cc: "M. Alain PORTAL" , base-system-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, Christophe-MeO/4o4RY/8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, Ivana Varekova , Eduardo Madeira Fleury , feedback-GR7eSQ5yZPdAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Giulio_Daprel=E0?= , "Martin (Joey) Schulze" , Thorsten Kukuk , Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh , prabu.ayyappan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, Subrata Modak , ro-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org, Aleksandr Blokhin , Senthil Kumar , Stefan Puiu , Andries Brouwer , Kaveh Mousavi , Rob Landley , Stepan Kasal , Elisa , "Michael Kerrisk (gmail)" , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Mats Wichmann List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Gidday, Some news: * man-pages now has a website: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages The site includes HTML versions of the current set of man-pages. * Starting with man-pages-2.69, each man page now includes a COLOPHON section at the end of the page which indicates the version of man-pages in which this page is released, and also contains a pointer to the man-pages web site. Back to the normal program: The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-2.69.tar.gz - man pages for Linux This release is now available for download at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages (Note the s/manpages/man-pages/ in these paths; a symlink with the old path will exist for a limited time.) You are receiving this message either because: a) You contributed to the content of this release. b) You are subscribed to linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org (*). c) I have information (possibly inaccurate) that you are the maintainer= of a translation of the manual pages, or are the maintainer of the manual pages set in a particular distribution, or have expressed interest in helping with man-pages maintenance, or have otherwise expressed interes= t in being notified about man-pages releases. 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Bruce Fields David H=E4rdeman Jeremy Kerr Luke Browning Mats Wichmann Maxime Vaudequin Mike Frysinger Reuben Thomas Sam Varshavchik Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- *.?p mtk Many whitespace clean-ups in formatted output. mprotect.2 bind.2 mq_notify.3 makecontext.3 fmemopen.3 David H=E4rdeman / mtk Rename error handling function in example program (s/die/handle_error/). Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several plac= es. Removed pages ------------- HOWTOHELP MAINTAINING mtk The content of these files is now available in HTML format. New links --------- cfsetspeed.3 mtk Link to termios.3. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- time.1 Alain Portal Added "Linux User's Manual" to .TH line. _syscall.2 aeb / mtk Remove outdated text about pointer blocks for syscalls that hav= e more than 5 arguments. fcntl.2 J. Bruce Fields Add warning that mandatory locking is unreliable. J. Bruce Fields Clarify details in description of file leases. J. Bruce Fields /mtk Minor wording edits. J. Bruce Fields Add F_GETLEASE under RETURN VALUE. mmap.2 mtk Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro. sched_setscheduler.2 Mats Wichmann Add BUGS text noting that the return value from Linux sched_setschuler() does not conform to POSIX. spu_create.2 Jeremy Kerr Various updates and improvements. Luke Browning Refinement of text describing a "gang". mtk Minor edits. spu_run.2 Jeremy Kerr Various updates and improvements. mtk Minor edits. err.3 mtk Remove HISTORY section. fopen.3 Mike Frysinger Document 'e' (close-on-exec) option, new in glibc 2.7. getloadavg.3 Alain Portal / mtk Remove HISTORY section. printf.3 Andries E. Brouwer / mtk Fix the discussion of stdarg macros in the description of vprintf() description. sem_wait.3 mtk Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro. sigsetops.3 Mats Wichmann Note that sigset_t objects must be initialized with sigemptyset() or sigfillset() before the other macros are employed. termios.3 mtk, after a note by Alain Portal Added cfsetspeed() to SYNOPSIS. Added text under CONFORMING TO noting that cfsetspeed() is BSD specific. ttyslot.3 Alain Portal Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since that is the manual page more likely to be found on current systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.) initrd.4 mtk, after a note by Alain Portal Move "Configuration" section to top of page (like other section 4 pages) and make it a .SH section. full.4 mtk Re-ordered CONFIGURATION section to go before DESCRIPTION. sk98lin.4 Maxime Vaudequin Fix reference to kernel Documentation file. elf.5 mtk Renamed HISTORY section to NOTES, and removed BSD specific info= =2E proc.5 Maxime Vaudequin Mention grub(8) in same sentence as lilo(8). Maxime Vaudequin Improve description of /proc/sys/abi and /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe. utmp.5 Alain Portal Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since that is the manual page more likely to be found on current systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.) iso_8859-2.7 Adam Borowski Reverse the 2.68 change (applied by mtk in response to Debian bug 445085) that replaced "Sorbian" with "Serbian". (Sorbian is a language of 50000 people in Brandenburg.) man-pages.7 mtk Added CONFIGURATION to list of "standard" section names. spufs.7 Jeremy Kerr Various updates and improvements. mtk Minor edits. tcp.7 Maxime Vaudequin Fix reference to kernel Documentation file. --=20 Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project (Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the Linux man pages) http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html