From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Kerrisk Subject: man-pages-2.71 released Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:47:13 +0100 Message-ID: <47624311.70303@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: John Sigler , Josh Triplett , Pascal MALAISE 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 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.) 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 interest in being notified about man-pages releases. If you don't want to receive such messages from me, or you know of some other translator or maintainer who may want to receive such notifications, send me a message. Cheers, Michael (man-pages maintenance is supported by Google, as a Google engineer 20% project.) (*) linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org is the man pages discussion list. Subscribe by sending a message to majordomo-jcmN7YZNQjL9qxiX1TGQuw@public.gmane.org, with the body: subscribe linux-man ==================== 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 John Sigler Josh Triplett Mats Wichmann Pascal MALAISE Sam Varshavchik 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 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 - 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