man-pages-4.02 is released

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Gidday,

The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:

    man-pages-4.02 - man pages for Linux

This release includes various new man pages and makes changes
in nearly 400 other pages, based on input and contributions from
around 15 people.

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_4.01

A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/08/man-pages-402-is-released.html

The current version of the pages is browsable at:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/

A selection of changes in this release that may be interesting
for readers of this list is shown below.

Cheers,

Michael


==================== Changes in man-pages-4.02 ====================


New and rewritten pages
-----------------------

dladdr.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        New page documenting dladdr() and dladdr1()
            Relocate/rewrite dladdr() text formerly contained in dlopen(3).
            Add documentation of dladdr1().

dlinfo.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        New page describing dlinfo(3)

dlopen.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        This page was substantially rewritten and enhanced. Notably:
        * the dladdr(), dlsym, dlvsym(), and dlerror() content were moved
          to separate new pages


Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------

dlopen.3
    Michael Kerrisk, Carlos O'Donell
        Document dlmopen(3)

nl_langinfo.3
    Sam Varshavchik, Michael Kerrisk
        Add documentation for nl_langinfo_l(3)

__ppc_set_ppr_med.3
    Gabriel F. T. Gomes
        Document PPC functions providing access to PPR
            GNU C Library 2.18 adds functions (__ppc_set_ppr_low(3),
            __ppc_set_ppr_med(3), __ppc_set_ppr_med_low(3)) that provide
            access to the Program Priority Register (PPR).

__ppc_yield.3
    Gabriel F. T. Gomes
        Document PPC performance-hint functions
            GNU C Library 2.18 adds functions __ppc_yield(3), __ppc_mdoio(3),
            and __ppc_mdoom(3) that can be used provide a hint that
            performance could be improved if shared resources are released
            for use by other processors.


Global changes
--------------

Very many pages
    Michael Kerrisk
        Update CONFORMING TO section to reflect POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008
        details. (By now, I believe all pages should be up to date with
        respect to appropriately mentioning POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008.)


Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

bpf.2
    Daniel Borkmann
        Various updates/follow-ups to address some fixmes
            A couple of follow-ups to the bpf(2) man-page, besides others:

             * Description of map data types
             * Explanation on eBPF tail calls and program arrays
             * Paragraph on tc holding ref of the eBPF program in the kernel
             * Updated ASCII image with tc ingress and egress invocations
             * __sync_fetch_and_add() and example usage mentioned on arrays
             * minor reword on the licensing and other minor fixups

io_getevents.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Note return value on interruption by a signal handler
    Michael Kerrisk
        Clarify details of return value for timeout-expired case
    Michael Kerrisk
        Clarify and extend discussion of 'timeout' argument

mmap.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Note that 'length' need not be a page-size multiple for munmap()
    Michael Kerrisk  [David Rientjes, David Rientjes, Mike Kravetz]
        Describe mmap()/munmap() argument requirements for huge-page mappings

fanotify.7
    Heinrich Schuchardt
        Clarify effects of file moves
            If files or directories are moved to other mounts, the inode is
            deleted. Fanotify marks are lost.


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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