From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Kerrisk Subject: man-pages-2.76 released Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:06:54 +0100 Message-ID: <478B424E.1010407@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: Alain Portal , Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon , Jeremy Kerr , Sam Varshavchik , Trond Myklebust Cc: 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, The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-2.76.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 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 (*) 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-2.76 ==================== Released: 2008-01-14 Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Alain Portal Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon Jeremy Kerr Sam Varshavchik Trond Myklebust Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- longjmp.3 printf.3 scanf.3 setbuf.3 setjmp.3 sk98lin.4 environ.7 mtk Rework/remove use of ".ad" macros. ioctl_list.2 mlock.2 mprotect.2 mremap.2 syslog.2 cfree.3 mpool.3 offsetof.3 rpc.3 stdin.3 mtk Fix unbalanced quotes in formatting macros. ftok.3 mtk s/i-node/inode/, for consistency with other pages and POSIX.1-2001. Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- chown.2 mtk Minor wording change. dup.2 mtk Reordered text in DESCRIPTION and added some details for dup2(). open.2 Trond Myklebust / mtk Minor fix to O_EXCL changes in previous release. gettid.2 mtk Rewrote DESCRIPTION; noted that thread ID is not the same thing as a POSIX thread ID. pipe.2 mtk Rewrote DESCRIPTION; minor additions to EXAMPLE text. umask.2 mtk A few rewrites and additions. strptime.3 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon / mtk Add "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" to example program. initrd.4 mtk Use quotes more consistently in formatting macros. random.4 mtk, after a report by Daniel Kahn Gilmor Add 2.6 details for /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize. as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459232. pthreads.7 mtk Minor changes. spufs.7 mtk / Jeremy Kerr s/MultiSource Synchronization/MultiSource Synchronization (MSS)/ -- 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