From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762171AbXFKHJV (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:09:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761080AbXFKHJG (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:09:06 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:46686 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1760389AbXFKHI7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:08:59 -0400 X-Authenticated: #24879014 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/iI5ls8b/iG4Lmbn28bh/peMN0E04UavCQSw9nOg FRJmv4lVE+D0u3 Message-ID: <466CF518.7040703@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:09:12 +0200 From: Michael Kerrisk User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml Subject: man-pages-2.55 is released Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gidday, I just released man-pages-2.55. This release is now available for download at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages and soon at: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages Changes that may be of interest to readers of this list are noted below. Cheers, Michael PS A note of thanks to my employer... much of my work on man-pages is nowadays supported by Google, as a Google engineer 20% project. ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.55 ==================== Global changes -------------- clone.2 getdents.2 gettid.2 ioprio_set.2 llseek.2 mmap2.2 modify_ldt.2 mq_getsetattr.2 pivot_root.2 quotactl.2 readdir.2 sysctl.2 syslog.2 tkill.2 mtk, after a note by Mike Frysinger Updated to reflect the fact that the _syscallN() macros have gone away, Changes to individual pages --------------------------- bind.2 mtk Expand example program, and move it to new EXAMPLE section. Added text pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3. signal.2 mtk, after a note from Alexander Taboriskiy Strengthen warning against the use of signal(). Added siginterrupt(3) to SEE ALSO list. mtk Rewrote various parts; added an ERRORS section. stat.2 mtk Added EXAMPLE program. sysctl.2 mtk Improved the example program. getaddrinfo.3 mtk Add example programs. Add getnameinfo() to SEE ALSO list. inotify.7 mtk Added text describing what happens when the buffer given to read(2) is too small to return information about the next event, and noting the behaviour change in 2.6.21. ld.so.8 mtk Simplify text describing --inhibit-rpath. mtk, after a note by John Reiser Describe use of $ORIGIN in rpath. -- 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'.