From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753329AbYKZDn2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:43:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753285AbYKZDm7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:42:59 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f11.google.com ([209.85.221.11]:39981 "EHLO mail-qy0-f11.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753205AbYKZDm6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:42:58 -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=am54Itbo+CRTZ0xnkso47QqW/GvfReNCo7Kx71jSs/lLDJ/GhBrE3lb7xjcmM1Jhxd Mp/cIPl9WJ4h3wPhYIlnEkhP2N/EkfTsrSSKY+b/Xkam0m7lPrvroA7i7rJEnKU81TDk KX+3nszQ6mtjT1f9fp7BXGlTFG7TQf2zQCCkg= Message-ID: <492CC5B6.5040706@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:42:46 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml Subject: man-pages-3.14 is 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, I've released man-pages-3.14.tar.gz - man pages for Linux 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 man-pages nowadays also has a public git repository at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git The online changelog is available at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html (blogged at http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2008/11/man-pages-314-is-released.html) and the current version of the pages is browsable at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Cheers, Michael ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.14 ==================== New and rewritten pages ----------------------- CPU_SET.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting CPU_* macros This page contains material moved out of sched_setscheduler(2). It overwrites a previously existing link file with the same name. pthread_attr_setinheritsched.3 Michael Kerrisk New page for pthread_attr_setinheritsched(3) and pthread_attr_getinheritsched(3) pthread_cancel.3 Michael Kerrisk New page for pthread_cancel(3) pthread_cleanup_push.3 Michael Kerrisk New page for pthread_cleanup_push(3) and pthread_cleanup_pop(3) pthread_setcancelstate.3 Michael Kerrisk New page for pthread_setcancelstate(3) and pthread_setcanceltype(3) pthread_testcancel.3 Michael Kerrisk New page for pthread_testcancel(3) Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- clone.2 Jens Axboe Document CLONE_IO (new in Linux 2.6.25) Some text also by mtk. Michael Kerrisk Document CLONE_NEWNET Michael Kerrisk Document CLONE_NEWUTS (new in Linux 2.6.19) Michael Kerrisk Document CLONE_NEWIPC flag (new in Linux 2.6.19) Michael Kerrisk Document CLONE_NEWPID flag (new in Linux 2.6.24) mmap.2 Michael Kerrisk Document MAP_STACK flag (new in Linux 2.6.27) arp.7 Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file retrans_time_ms (new in Linux 2.6.12) Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file base_reachable_time_ms (new in Linux 2.6.12) icmp.7 Michael Kerrisk Document icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses (new in Linux 2.2) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document icmp_ratelimit and icmp_ratemask (new in Linux 2.4.10) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts (new in Linux 2.6.12) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt tcp.7 Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_slow_start_after_idle (new in Linux 2.6.18) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_base_mss (new in Linux 2.6.17) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_frto_response (new in Linux 2.6.22) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_moderate_rcvbuf (new in Linux 2.4.17/2.6.7) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_congestion_control (new in Linux 2.4.13) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_no_metrics_save (new in Linux 2.6.6) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_mtu_probing (new in Linux 2.6.17) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_dma_copybreak (new in Linux 2.6.24) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_tso_win_divisor (new in Linux 2.6.9) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_allowed_congestion_control (new in Linux 2.4.20) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_workaround_signed_windows (new in Linux 2.6.26) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_available_congestion_control (new in Linux 2.4.20) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt Michael Kerrisk Document /proc file tcp_abc (new in Linux 2.6.15) Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt udp.7 Michael Kerrisk Document /proc files udp_mem, udp_rmem_min, and udp_wmem_min All of these are new in Linux 2.6.25 Changes to individual pages --------------------------- sysctl.2 Michael Kerrisk Add prominent warning against using this system call This was already stated under NOTES, but make it even more prominent by adding a sentence at the start of the DESCRIPTION. clock_getres.3 Michael Kerrisk CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID not settable According to POSIX.1-2001, the CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID clocks should be settable, but currently they are not. makecontext.3 Michael Kerrisk Add text on use of pointer arguments to makecontext() Passing pointer arguments to makecontext() is possible, but only on some architectures, and with no guarantees of portability. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504699 syslog.3 Masanari Iida LOG_KERN messages can't be generated from user processes Masanari notes that this is an FAQ for logger(1) and that Solaris and FreeBSD document this point in syslog(3). The glibc info page also hides this comment in its source: Internally, there is also LOG_KERN, but LOG_KERN == 0, which means if you try to use it here, just selects default. tcp.7 Michael Kerrisk Update description of tcp_rmem defaults for Linux 2.6 Michael Kerrisk The tcp_bic* proc files disappeared in Linux 2.6.13 Michael Kerrisk tcp_vegas_cong_avoid disappeared in Linux 2.6.13 Michael Kerrisk Clarify that tcp_mem measures in units of the system page size Michael Kerrisk Update tcp_frto description for 2.6.22 changes Linux 2.6.22 added a mode value 2 ("Enable SACK-enhanced F-RTO if flow uses SACK"). Michael Kerrisk tcp_westwood /proc file disappeared in Linux 2.6.13 Michael Kerrisk Update description of tcp_wmem defaults for Linux 2.6