man-pages-3.81 is released

man-pages-3.81 is released

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Gidday,

The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:

    man-pages-3.81 - 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_3.81

A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/03/man-pages-381-is-released.html

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The changes in man-pages-3.81 relate exclusively to the (glibc) 
thread-safety markings in various man pages. More than 400 patches, 
mainly by Ma Shimiao and Peng Haitao of Fujitsu brought the following 
changes:

* Thread-safety information has been added to many more pages.
* The thread-safety notation in man-pages has been made consistent 
  with the notation used in the GNU C Library Manual.
* Thread-safety information in man-pages has been checked for 
  consistency with the same information in the GNU C Library Manual.
  In some cases these, this has resulted in refinements to the 
  markings in man-pages.
* The thread-safety information in man-pages has been been converted 
  from a plain text layout to a tabular layout, for ease of reading.

By now, thanks mainly to the work of Peng Haitao and Ma Shimiao, 
nearly 400 of the (around 980) pages in man-pages carry thread-safety 
information.

In addition, a new attributes(7) man page, based on text supplied 
by Alexandre Oliva (who was responsible for adding thread-safety 
information to the GNU C Library manual) provides an overview of the 
thread-safety concepts documented in man-pages, and a description of 
the notation used in man-pages to describe the thread safety of 
functions. (Thanks also to Carlos O'Donell for helping us to obtain 
the permissions needed so that man-pages could recycle this text 
from the GNU C Library manual.).

Cheers,

Michael

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/