Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:35:28 +1300 | From | Michael Kerrisk <> | Subject | man-pages-3.18 is released |
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Gidday,
I've happy to announce
man-pages-3.18.tar.gz - man pages for Linux,
my hundredth release since I took over maintainership in 2004.
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/2009/02/man-pages-318-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-3.18 ====================
New and rewritten pages -----------------------
armscii-8.7 Lefteris Dimitroulakis New page documenting ArmSCII-8 character set
iso_8859-11.7 Lefteris Dimitroulakis New page documenting ISO 8859-11 character set
iso_8859-4.7 Lefteris Dimitroulakis New page documenting ISO 8859-4 character set
iso_8859-6.7 Lefteris Dimitroulakis New page describing ISO 8859-6 character set
pthread_kill.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting pthread_kill(3)
pthread_kill_other_threads_np.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting pthread_kill_other_threads_np(3)
pthread_sigmask.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting pthread_sigmask(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages ---------------------------------------------
clock_getres.3 Michael Kerrisk Document CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, new in 2.6.28
Changes to individual pages ---------------------------
capget.2 Andi Kleen Add some details and relocate a paragraph While writing a little program using capset I found the capset manpage quite light on crucial details and I had to resort to RTFS.
This patch improves the points I found unclear and also moves one misplaced paragraph around.
select_tut.2 Michael Kerrisk Clean up error checking in example program (no semantic changes) Michael Kerrisk Many parts tidied and rewritten Remove some redundant text, clarify various pieces, tidy example code, etc. Michael Kerrisk Bug fixes + rewrites in example program Sebastien pointed out that the first example program wrongly thinks it can count signals. Also, some further rewrites by mtk.
epoll.7 Michael Kerrisk remove documentation of /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances This /proc interface appeared in 2.6.28. but will be removed in 2.6.29.
Also, document change in default value of /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches (was 1/32 of lowmem, now 1/25 of lowmem).
standards.7 Michael Kerrisk Update to note that latest POSIX/SUS was ratified in 2008
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