man-pages-2.57 is released

Michael Kerrisk
2007-06-17T14:02:40Z

Gidday,

I just released man-pages-2.57.

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

Various things remain to be fixed in man-pages. A few of the outstanding
FIXME points from section 2 are listed below. Any assistance with these
points would be most welcome.

Cheers,

Michael
(man-pages maintenance is supported by Google, as a Google engineer 20%
project.)

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./man2/ioperm.2
FIXME is the following ("Only the first 0x3ff I/O ports can be
specified in this manner") still true? Looking at changes in
include/asm-i386/processor.h between 2.4 and 2.6 suggests
that the limit is different in 2.6.

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./man2/mprotect.2
FIXME
Document PROT_GROWSUP and PROT_GROWSDOWN

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./man2/nfsservctl.2
FIXME The description of nfsservctl() on this page
is woefully thin.

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./man2/shmop.2
FIXME A good explanation of the rationale for the existence
of SHMLBA would be useful here

--
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'.