From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756647AbaCRQwW (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:52:22 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f48.google.com ([209.85.214.48]:40311 "EHLO mail-bk0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752135AbaCRQwV (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Mar 2014 12:52:21 -0400 Message-ID: <532879C0.7080507@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 17:52:16 +0100 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml CC: mtk.manpages@gmail.com Subject: man-pages-3.63 is released Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gidday, The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-3.63 - man pages for Linux He also proudly announces that man-pages recently passed 10,000 commits since he took over as maintainer in 2004 (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MichaelKerrisk/posts/SVH47FGnQCN ). Tarball download: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html Git repository: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/ Online changelog: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.63 A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/03/man-pages-363-is-released.html The current version of the pages is browsable at: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/ A few changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of this list are given below. Cheers, Michael ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.63 ==================== Released: 2014-03-18, Munich New and rewritten pages ----------------------- duplocale.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting duplocale(3) newlocale.3 Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger] New page documenting newlocale(3) and freelocale(3) uselocale.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting uselocale(3) Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- open.2 Michael Kerrisk Document O_DSYNC and rewrite discussion of O_SYNC proc.5 Michael Kerrisk Document /proc/sys/kernel/random/uuid locale.7 Michael Kerrisk Document LC_ADDRESS Document LC_IDENTIFICATION Document LC_MEASUREMENT Document LC_NAME Document LC_PAPER Document LC_TELEPHONE Changes to individual pages --------------------------- readahead.2 Phillip Susi [Corrado Zoccolo, Gregory P. Smith, Zhu Yanhai, Michael Kerrisk, Christoph Hellwig] Don't claim the call blocks until all data has been read The readahead(2) man page was claiming that the call blocks until all data has been read into the cache. This is incorrect. See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54271 fts.3 Christoph Hellwig [Michael Kerrisk] The fts(3) API does not work with LFS builds As pointed out during a recent discussion on libc-hacker the fts(3) APIs can't be used with large file offsets: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15838 core.5 Mike Frysinger [Michael Kerrisk] Document core_pattern %d specifier Document %P core_pattern specifier -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/