man-pages-2.71 released

man-pages-2.71 released

[Michael Kerrisk]

Gidday,

Some news:

* man-pages now has an (irregularly updated) blog.

      http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/

* 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.

* Since 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 program as usual...

The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:

    man-pages-2.71.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.)

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Cheers,

Michael
(man-pages maintenance is supported by Google, as a Google engineer 20%
project.)

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==================== Changes in man-pages-2.71 ====================

Released: 2007-12-17


Contributors
------------

The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:

Alain PORTAL <alain.portal-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
John Sigler <linux.kernel-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
Josh Triplett <josh-CC+yJ3UmIYqDUpFQwHEjaQ@public.gmane.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Pascal MALAISE <malaise-nJJpUPIbDOA@public.gmane.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam-W1w4QoW4mIDgLSHwZvcCBg@public.gmane.org>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


Global changes
--------------

err.3
fts.3
getloadavg.3
queue.3
rcmd.3
rexec.3
stdin.3
elf.5
operator.7
    mtk
        Replaced the use of mdoc macros on these pagess with man
        macros.  The only pages in man-pages that still use
        mdoc macros are mdoc.7 and mdoc.samples.7.

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.


Deleted pages
-------------

TODO
    mtk
        This information is now on the website.


Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

Changes.old
    mtk
        Reformat various change log entries to use a consistent format.
        Expand Debian bug report numbers to be URLs.
        Other minor tidy-ups.

fcntl.2
    mtk
        Document the F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC operation, which is
        new in kernel 2.6.24.

listen.2
    Josh Triplett
        Fix incorrect path for somaxconn.

getpw.3
    Alain PORTAL
        Add ENOENT error to ERRORS.

sysconf.3
    Mats Wichmann
        Add documentation of _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN.

tty.4
    John Sigler
        Add tty_ioctl(4) to SEE ALSO list.

regex.7
    Pascal MALAISE <malaise-nJJpUPIbDOA@public.gmane.org>
        Separate text on back regerences from that describing basic regexps,
        as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379829.
    mtk
        Remove crufty text about word boundaries.


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Want to report a man-pages bug?  Look here:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html



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