From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762689AbXLNIpv (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:45:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756537AbXLNIpn (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:45:43 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:44498 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754527AbXLNIpm (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Dec 2007 03:45:42 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:from; b=VYSV5wZv0f7bC+KKr6X6wJ3qlBvi24Hmfo2yq8125crGfaA+hmm0yEjnpyznTDcMDVBL/VASTBZKHZnCUihdhbjrdwhXLiTSnKjt0jqV0e20rQp+6yrpByCixmOnaVxqbv1BdPFqJxKHF5zlrssZ6ZYu7rwMNx6KrdTPoLK7Qg0= Message-ID: <476242FE.50805@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:46:54 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml Subject: man-pages-2.71 and man-pages-2.72 are released Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael Kerrisk Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gidday, Repeating some old news: * man-pages now has a website: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages The site includes HTML versions of the current set of man-pages. * Since man-pages-2.69, each man page now includes a COLOPHON section at the end of the page which indicates the version of man-pages in which this page is released, and also contains a pointer to the man-pages web site. * The list linux-man@vger.kernel.org has been created for the purpose of discussing Linux man page bugs, patches, and maintenance. To subscribe, send a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org, with the body: subscribe linux-man Back to the news as usual... I recently released man-pages-2.71 and man-pages-2.72. These releases are now available for download at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages (Note the s/manpages/man-pages/ in these paths; a symlink with the old path will exist for a limited time.) Changes in these releases can be seen at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html#release_2.71 and http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html#release_2.72 Many of the changes in these releases consist of formatting and consistency fixes. A few of the changes that may be of interest to readers of this list are summarized below. Cheers, Michael (man-pages maintenance is supported by Google, as a Google engineer 20% project.) ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.71 ==================== Global changes -------------- err.3 fts.3 getloadavg.3 queue.3 rcmd.3 rexec.3 stdin.3 elf.5 operator.7 mtk Replaced the use of mdoc macros on these pages with man macros. The only pages in man-pages that still use mdoc macros are mdoc.7 and mdoc.samples.7. Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- fcntl.2 mtk Document the F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC operation, which is new in kernel 2.6.24. ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.72 ==================== Global changes -------------- abort.3 mtk, after a note by Alex Tuninga A fairly significant rewrite to clarify operation of abort(). -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html