From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: man-pages-2.77 is released
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:13:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A1C95E.2080307@gmail.com> (raw)
Gidday
Some news: the man-pages web site at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
now includes a (Google-based) search facility for searching the pages that
are online there.
I've released man-pages-2.77.
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
A full list of the changes in this release can be seen at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html
A summary of the changes in this release that may be of interest to readers
of this list is provided below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.77 ====================
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
wait.2
Phil Endecott
Clarify description of return value for WNOHANG.
tkill.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by
tgkill().
alloca.3
mtk
Various rewrites and additions (including notes on longjmp() and
SIGSEGV).
mtk / Vincent Lefevre
Weaken warning against use of alloca(), and
point out some cases where it can be useful;
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461100.
--
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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