man-pages-2.74 is released

man-pages-2.74 is released

[Michael Kerrisk]

Gidday

I've released man-pages-2.74.

This release is now available for download at:

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
    or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages

Changes in this release can be seen at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html#release_2.74
A summary of the changes in this release that may be of interest to readers
of this list is provided below.

Cheers,

Michael



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

mount.2
    mtk, after a note by Sam Morris
        Clarify that MS_NODIRATIME provides a subset of the
        functionality provided by MS_NOATIME.

spu_create.2
    Jeremy Kerr
        We can use context FDs for the dirfd argument to the *at()
        syscalls.

times.2
    mtk, after a note from David Brown and Andrew Morton
        http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119447727031225&w=2
        Rework the text describing the return value to be closer
        to the requirements of POSIX.1; move Linux details
        to NOTES and add a warning not to rely on those details.
        Add a warning about the -1 to -4095 bug which results
        in a 41 second window where the glibc wrapper will wrongly
        return -1 indicating an error.

vcs.4
    Samuel Thibault
        Document VT_GETHIFONTMASK (new in 2.6.18) and add to example
        program;
spufs.7
    Jeremy Kerr
        Add a little information about the differences to mbox.