From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: man-pages-3.17 is released
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:24:59 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4977141B.8060807@gmail.com> (raw)
Gidday,
I've released man-pages-3.16.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/2009/01/man-pages-317-is-released.html)
and the current version of the pages is browsable at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
An abridged list of changes that may be of interest to readers of this
list is given below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.17 ====================
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
endian.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting byte order conversion functions
Document functions (new in glibc 2.9) for conversion between
host byte order and big-/little- endian byte order:
htobe16(), htole16(), be16toh(), le16toh(),
htobe32(), htole32(), be32toh(), le32toh(),
htobe64(), htole64(), be64toh(), le64toh()
getifaddrs.3
Petr Baudis
New page documenting getifaddrs(3) and freeifaddrs(3)
Many edits and changes of Petr's initial draft by mtk
cp1251.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting CP 1251 (Windows Cyrillic) character set
iso-8859-10.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-10 character set
iso_8859-13.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-13 character set
iso_8859-14.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-14 character set
iso_8859-3.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-3 character set
iso_8859-5.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-5 character set
iso_8859-8.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-8 character set
koi8-u.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting KOI8-U character set
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc interfaces for limiting kernel memory usage
Document the following /proc files that were added in
Linux 2.6.28:
/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances
/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches
netdevice.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document recently added interface flags
IFF_LOWER_UP (since Linux 2.6.17)
IFF_DORMANT (since Linux 2.6.17)
IFF_ECHO (since Linux 2.6.25)
Documentation taken from comments in <linux/if.h>
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