From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754649AbYCJPe4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:34:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754241AbYCJPeo (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:34:44 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.171]:60285 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754103AbYCJPem (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:34:42 -0400 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=EyxqUgvjCoTqrwNQ/9TRys0Gzo1mwMvYyF6dMUbSbGCfs8+cbjbaaWV1KhmI9czQqUdQicfwW/RwZOptn6hnrDqT0qOGt/Kslcgm8JILJnir038lPJTTFyV+029FaoJqPP4p/BQ+IyvVxKbEmJjQrcsVZ5Sz/BbeWaiHAGNaRww= Message-ID: <47D554BB.6000801@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:33:15 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml Subject: man-pages-2.79 is released Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Michael Kerrisk Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gidday I've released man-pages-2.79. 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 A full list of the changes in this release can be seen at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html A summary of the changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of this list is provided below. Cheers, Michael ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.79 ==================== New pages --------- timerfd_create.2 mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi Documents the timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime() system calls, which are new in 2.6.25. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- syslog.2 Jeremy Kerr Add info on command type 10. Add details on types 6, 7, 8, and 9. Minor grammar fix. mtk Update LOG_BUF_LEN details. Update RETURN VALUE section. Notes capability requirements under EPERM error. Minor fix to description of type==3 and type==4. Other minor edits. proc.5 Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao Update /proc/[number]/cmdline description. It used to be true that the command line arguments were not accessible when the process had been swapped out. In ancient kernels (circa 2.0.*) the problem was that the kernel relied on get_phys_addr to access the user space buffer, which stopped working as soon as the process was swapped out. Recent kernels use get_user_pages for the same purpose and thus they should not have that limitation. epoll.7 Davide Libenzi / mtk Clarify the somewhat unintuitive behavior that occurs if a file descriptor in an epoll set is closed while other file descriptors referring to the same underlying open file description remain open. See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/596462/. mtk Clarify error that occurs if we add an epoll fd to its own set. mtk A few minor rewordings. mtk, after a note by Chris Heath Rework Q1/A1, describing what happens when adding the same file descriptor twice to an epoll set, and when adding duplicate file descriptors to the same epoll set. Heikki Orsila / mtk / Davide Libenzi Clarify Q9/A9 to discuss packet/token-oriented files. mtk, after comments by Devide Libenzi and Chris Heath Added Q0/A0, making explicit that the key for items in an epoll set is [file descriptor, open file description]. mtk, after a note by Ron Burk Change A3, to note that when events are available, the epoll file descriptor will indicate as being readable. mtk Add some further explanation to Q5/A5 about why an epoll file descriptor cannot be passed across a Unix domain socket. -- 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