Re: [kernel] man-pages-3.68 is released

Mr. James W. Laferriere
2014-06-03T17:47:59Z

Helo Michael , Thank you !-) JimL

On Thu, 29 May 2014, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

> Gidday,
>
> The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces his 150th release
> as project maintainer:
>
> man-pages-3.68 - man pages for Linux
>
> Tarball download:
> http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html
> Git repository:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/
> Online changelog:
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.68
>
> A short summary of the release is blogged at:
> http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/05/man-pages-368-is-released.html
>
> The current version of the pages is browsable at:
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
>
> A few changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of
> this list are given below.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
> ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.68 ====================
>
> Released: 2014-05-28, Munich
>
>
> New and rewritten pages
> -----------------------
>
> localedef.1
> Marko Myllynen, Richard Braakman, Alastair McKinstry, Lars Wirzenius
> New page for localedef(1)
> Add new page based on Debian localedef(1) page.
>
>
> Changes to individual pages
> ---------------------------
>
> locale.1
> Marko Myllynen
> Provide a step-by-step example of how to use a custom locale
>
> fork.2
> Michael Kerrisk
> ERRORS: add pid_max and threads-max to EAGAIN
> And rewrite text to be the same as pthread_create(3).
>
> proc.5
> Michael Kerrisk
> 'pid_max' is a system-wide limit on number of threads and processes
> Since PIDs > /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max are not allocated, this
> file thus also imposes a system-wide limit on the number of
> threads and processes.
>
> capabilities.7
> Michael Kerrisk
> CAP_SYS_ADMIN allows overriding RLIMIT_NPROC
> Michael Kerrisk
> CAP_SYS_PTRACE allows process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2)
>
> inotify.7
> Heinrich Schuchardt
> Add example program
> This example of the usage of the inotify API shows the
> usage of inotify_init1(2) and inotify_add_watch(2) as well
> as polling and reading from the inotify file descriptor.
>
> locale.7
> Marko Myllynen [Michael Kerrisk]
> Document the LOCPATH environment variable
>
>

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