From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Kerrisk Subject: man-pages-2.77 released Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:12:55 +0100 Message-ID: <47A1C957.5050004@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: Pavel Heimlich , Phil Endecott , Thomas Huriaux , Vincent Lefevre Cc: Alain PORTAL , base-system-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, Christophe-MeO/4o4RY/8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org, Ivana Varekova , Eduardo Madeira Fleury , Ivana Varekova , =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Giulio_Daprel=E0?= , "Martin (Joey) Schulze" , Thorsten Kukuk , Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh , Thorsten Kukuk , 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)" , Elisa , Mats Wichmann List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Gidday, The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-2.77.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 The online changelog is available at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html and the current version of the pages is browsable at http://www.kernel.org/doc/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-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, with the body: subscribe linux-man ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.77 ==================== Released: 2008-01-31 Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Pavel Heimlich Phil Endecott Thomas Huriaux Vincent Lefevre WANG Cong Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- stdarg.3 bootparam.7 Thomas Huriaux Fix broken use of single quotes at start of line, as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462636 Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. New pages --------- remove_COLOPHON.sh mtk Script to remove the COLOPHON section from the man pages provided as command-line arguments. This is useful to remove the COLOPHON sections from all of the man pages in two different release trees in order to do a "diff -ruN" to see the "real" differences between the trees. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- fcntl.2 mtk Replace tables with .TP macros. fork.2 mtk Added discussion of directory streams. Removed "#include " from SYNOPSIS. Changed authorship notice. futex.2 mtk Add ENOSYS error to errors. Phil Endecott Explicitly describe return value in the event of an error. inotify_add_watch.2 mtk Minor wording changes. splice.2 WANG Cong Fix types for 2 and 4 arguments in splice prototype. 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 Change description in NAME section. 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. bootparam.7 Pavel Heimlich Remove junk line. inotify.7 mtk Replace tables with .TP macros. -- 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