From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764122AbZAUMZ5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:25:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757943AbZAUMZr (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:25:47 -0500 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.174]:21386 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754940AbZAUMZq (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:25:46 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=AE3zjL9KldaRqJu9CQlfac6mYGwpX5z4tfF4yUrqja5k7uYHxCh35SlfAV97dy1H0z HiaSz+Kjx1lmyuEFY4RYy7hkHn1D2/EgcD4blKhI2F+vkUX5SYHRFIA/if1VosrG7A9X R9GnASHZ9A4AUFOU4UQkQ40wiWxL80l9NUD1o= Message-ID: <4977141B.8060807@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:24:59 +1300 From: Michael Kerrisk User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20071114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml Subject: man-pages-3.17 is released Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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