man-pages-2.64 is released

man-pages-2.64 is released

[Michael Kerrisk]

Gidday,

I recently released man-pages-2.64.

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

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-2.64 ====================

Global changes
--------------

Many pages
    mtk
        Added/updated feature test macro requirements for
        glibc; see feature_test_macros.7 for details.

Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

setpgid.2
    mtk
        Fairly substantial changes and corrections, including adding
        coverage of all of the interfaces that get/set PGIDs.

syscalls.2
    mtk / aeb
        Varous rewordings; clear up some imprecisions.

strerror.3
    mtk
        Note that the XPG version is provided since glibc 2.3.4.
        The page formerly said that the GNU-specific version
        is provided by default.  That certainly isn't true
        nowadays, since _POSIX_C_SOURCE is set to 200112L by
        default, so that the XSI-compliant version is supplied
        by default.

man-pages.7
    mtk
        Added note pointing to feature_test_macros.7 for a description
        of how feature test macro requirements should be specified in
        manual pages.  Various other minor fixes and changes.

feature_test_macros.7
    mtk
        Added note about how feature test macros are specified
        in manual pages.
        Many other corrections, improvements, additions, and
        details about differences across glibc versions.

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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