From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: emogenet@google.com
Subject: man-pages-2.52 and man-pages-2.53 are released
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:31:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4667A655.1040909@gmx.net> (raw)
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little
statesmen and philosophers and divines"
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
But damn it, those man pages were a mess!
Perhaps for the first time in their 14-year history, the sections in all of
the pages on man-pages are now in the same order... The standard order
(with many sections being optional) is now:
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
ENVIRONMENT
FILES
VERSIONS
CONFORMING TO
NOTES
BUGS
EXAMPLE
SEE ALSO
So, I just released man-pages-2.52 and man-pages-2.53. As well as that
change, there are a very large number of changes to achieve greater
consistency across man pages; full details can be found in the change logs.
In the upcoming man-pages-2.54 release, a new man-pages.7 page will
describe the conventions that should be followed when writing pages for
man-pages.
These releases are now available for download at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
or mirrors: ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
and soon at:
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages
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
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/
read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'.
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