man-pages-2.30 is released

Michael Kerrisk
2006-05-01T11:04:06Z

Gidday,

I recently released man-pages-2.30, which can be found at the
location in the .sig.

Changes in this release that may be of interest to readers
of this list include the following:

New pages
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linkat.2
mtk
New page describing linkat(), new in kernel 2.6.16

renameat.2
mtk
New page describing renameat(), new in kernel 2.6.16

symlinkat.2
mtk
New page describing symlinkat(), new in kernel 2.6.16

unlinkat.2
mtk
New page describing unlinkat(), new in kernel 2.6.16

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The man-pages set contains sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 of
the manual pages. These sections describe the following:

2: (Linux) system calls
3: (libc) library functions
4: Devices
5: File formats and protocols
7: Overview pages, conventions, etc.

As far as this list is concerned the most relevant parts are:
all of sections 2 and 4, which describe kernel-userland interfaces;
in section 5, the proc(5) manual page, which attempts (it's always
catching up) to be a comprehensive description of /proc; and
various pages in section 7, some of which are overview pages of
kernel features (e.g., networking protocols).

If you make a change to a kernel-userland interface, or observe
a discrepancy between the manual pages and reality, would you
please send me (at mtk-manpages@gmx.net ) one of the following
(in decreasing order of preference):

1. An in-line "diff -u" patch with text changes for the
corresponding manual page. (The most up-to-date version
of the manual pages can always be found at
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages or
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages .)

2. Some raw text describing the changes, which I can then