From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933881AbYAaNN5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:13:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1765601AbYAaNNr (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:13:47 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]:42113 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754110AbYAaNNq (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:13:46 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=RVutjvApz0H5QRQdNutEVSgZ+cFlJM/oTkyx5JH7JQUHUsfqVxAFUfrcEej3jun0QV3zsRh3pvVbD9h0Hvs8HnzYUTzL9y93desEfLuadfo3N/APW31F/ZXGJMynTnzsfFHptP4II83S1hvIGjvnj0Knjo56ZbIgo4dwi3wZVuc= Message-ID: <47A1C95E.2080307@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:13:02 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml Subject: man-pages-2.77 is released Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael Kerrisk Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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