From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932432AbWG0C5q (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:57:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932065AbWG0C5p (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:57:45 -0400 Received: from mail.jambit.com ([62.245.207.83]:38376 "EHLO mail.jambit.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932378AbWG0C5p (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:57:45 -0400 Message-ID: <44BE5A07.9050706@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:12:55 +0200 From: Michael Kerrisk User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml Subject: man-pages-2.36 is released Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gidday, I recently released man-pages-2.36, 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 --------- No new pages in this release, but a few new files with meta-information: MAINTAINING mtk How to maintain man-pages. TODO mtk Things that it would be nice to get done for man-pages one day. scripts/FIXME_list.sh mtk This script, intended for use by manual page maintainers, displays the FIXMEs in the manual page source files. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- sendfile.2 mtk / Jens Axboe Fix description of 'offset' argument to explain the case where 'offset' is NULL. ========== 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 integrate into the appropriate manual page. 3. A message alerting me that some part of the manual pages does not correspond to reality. Eventually, I will try to remedy the situation. Obviously, as we get further down this list, more of my time is required, and things may go slower, especially when the changes concern some part of the kernel that I am ignorant about and I can't find someone to assist. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/, read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'.