man-pages-2.32 is released

Michael Kerrisk
2006-05-16T22:10:19Z

Gidday,

I recently released man-pages-2.32, 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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faccessat.2
mtk
New page for faccessat(2), new in 2.6.16.

fchmodat.2
mtk
New page for fchmodat(2), new in 2.6.16.

fchownat.2
mtk
New page for fchownat(2), new in 2.6.16.

futimesat.2
mtk
New page for futimesat(2), new in 2.6.16.

Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

capabilities.7
mtk
Reworded to reflect that capabilities are per-thread.
Add ioprio_set() to list of operations permitted by
CAP_SYS_NICE.
Add ioprio_set() IOPRIO_CLASS_RT and IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE
scheduling classes to list of operations permitted by
CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
Note effects of CAP_SYS_NICE for migrate_pages().

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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