From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S938218AbXGTIhk (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:37:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757418AbXGTIh0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:37:26 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:58137 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1763470AbXGTIhX (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:37:23 -0400 X-Authenticated: #24879014 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+T8zIQ1BWTr+jAohNEBqSjqW8CyA/BoIIRVBXuZn eea72PJE9sI9mv Message-ID: <46A05CA6.3090006@gmx.net> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:56:38 +0200 From: Michael Kerrisk User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml Subject: man-pages-2.63 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 recently released man-pages-2.63. 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 in this release that may be of interest to readers of this list are noted below. Cheers, Michael (man-pages maintenance is supported by Google, as a Google engineer 20% project.) ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.63 ==================== New pages --------- sgetmask.2 mtk A real man page for sgetmask(2) and ssetmask(2). (This page replaces a previous link of the same, which linked signal.2.) spu_create.2 Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk Document the PowerPC SPU spu_create() system call. (Originally taken from the kernel source file Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.) spu_run.2 Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk Document the PowerPC SPU spu_run() system call. (Originally taken from the kernel source file Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.) spufs.7 Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk Document the PowerPC SPU file system. (Originally taken from the kernel source file Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.) New links --------- chown32.2 fchown32.2 getegid32.2 geteuid32.2 getgid32.2 getgroups32.2 getresgid32.2 getresuid32.2 getuid32.2 lchown32.2 setfsgid32.2 setfsuid32.2 setgid32.2 setgroups32.2 setregid32.2 setresgid32.2 setresuid32.2 setreuid32.2 setuid32.2 mtk Added as link to corresponding page without "32". fcntl64.2 fstat64.2 fstatat64.2 fstatfs64.2 ftruncate64.2 getdents64.2 lstat64.2 pread64.2 pwrite64.2 sendfile64.2 stat64.2 statfs64.2 truncate64.2 mtk Added as link to corresponding page without "64". __clone2.2 clone2.2 mtk Links to clone.2. ugetrlimit.2 mtk Link to getrlimit.2. mq_notify.2 mq_open.2 mq_timedreceive.2 mq_timedsend.2 mq_unlink.2 mtk Added as links to corresponding section 3 pages. fadvise64.2 fadvise64_64.2 mtk Links to posix_fadvise.2. rt_sigaction.2 rt_sigpending.2 rt_sigprocmask.2 rt_sigtimedwait.2 mtk Added as link to corresponding page without "rt_" prefix. rt_sigqueueinfo.2 mtk Link to sigqueue.2. madvise1.2 tuxcall.2 vserver.2 mtk / Ivana Varekova Link to unimplemented.2. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- access.2 mtk Fairly substantial rewrites of various parts, and a few additions. chown.2 mtk Added an example program. killpg.2 mtk Note that killpg() is actually a library function on Linux. mmap.2 mtk Added note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays invokes mmap2(). mmap2.2 Ivana Varekova / mtk On most platforms the unit for 'offset' is 4096 bytes, not the system page size. mtk Rewrote NOTES to note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays invokes this system call. mtk Added an EXAMPLE program. semop.2 mtk Add an example code segment. sigqueue.2 mtk Added info on rt_sigqueueinfo(2). sigwaitinfo.2 mtk Noted that sigwaitinfo() is a library function implemented on top of sigtimedwait(). stat.2 mtk Add notes on the different system call interfaces that have appeared over time. uname.2 mtk Add notes on the different system call interfaces that have appeared over time. proc.5 mtk Update/correct text on /proc/malloc. mtk, after a note by Pierre Habouzit, and a few comments by Justin Pryzby Update description of /proc/PID/stat to match 2.6.21. See Debian bug 417933. inotify.7 mtk IN_DONT_FOLLOW and IN_ONLYDIR are only available from 2.6.15. signal.7 Stepan Kasal / mtk Note SIGRTMIN value depends on glibc. mtk Various rewrites and additions to the text in real-time signals. Add SEE ALSO reference to sgetmask.2. -- 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'.