Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Date | Sun, 4 Mar 2012 22:50:58 +1300 | Subject | man-pages-3.36 is released |
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Gidday,
I've released man-pages-3.36.tar.gz - man pages for Linux.
Now that I've sorted out kernel.org access, many of the release artifacts are in the traditional locations, but there are a few changes that are likely permanent as well. Details below.
Tarball download: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/ Git repository: http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git Online changelog: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.36
A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2012/03/man-pages-336-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-3.36 ====================
New and rewritten pages -----------------------
sendmmsg.2 Michael Kerrisk [Stephan Mueller] New page for sendmmsg(2) Some pieces inspired by an initial attempt by Stephan Mueller.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages ---------------------------------------------
fallocate.2 Lucian Adrian Grijincu Document FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE was added in Linux 2.6.38, for punching holes in the allocated space in a file.
Changes to individual pages ---------------------------
fsync.2 Christoph Hellwig Various improvements - explain the situation with disk caches better - remove the duplicate fdatasync() explanation in the NOTES section - remove an incorrect note about fsync() generally requiring two writes - remove an obsolete ext2 example note - fsync() works on any file descriptor (doesn't need to be writable); correct the EBADF error code explanation
sched_rr_get_interval.2 Clemens Ladisch Update notes on modifying quantum Since Linux 2.6.24, it is no longer possible to modify the SCHED_RR quantum using setpriority(2). (Slight edits to Clemens' patch by mtk.)
vfork.2 Michael Kerrisk [starlight@binnacle.cx] Clarify what is duplicated in the child Add some words to make it clear to the reader that vfork(), like fork(), creates duplicates of process attributes in the child. Michae Kerrisk Note clone() flags equivalent to vfork() Add some notes on reasons why vfork() still exists Clarify that calling *thread* is suspended during vfork() CONFORMING TO: Note that POSIX.1-2001 marked vfork() obsolete
core.5 Michael Kerrisk [Junjiro Okajima] Document %E specifier for core_pattern
feature_test_macros.7 Michael Kerrisk Document _ISOC11_SOURCE
-- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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