Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:51:42 +0200 | From | Michael Kerrisk <> | Subject | man-pages-2.66 is released |
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Back to the news as usual...
I recently released man-pages-2.66.
This release is now available for download at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
Changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of this list are noted below.
Cheers,
Michael (man-pages maintenance is supported by Google, as a Google engineer 20% project.)
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.66 ====================
New pages ---------
fallocate.2 David Chinner, with some input from Amit Amora and mtk Describes the fallocate() system call, new in 2.6.23.
Changes to individual pages ---------------------------
close.2 Fredrik Noring Add text cautioning about use of close() in multithreaded programs.
execve.2 Ollie Wild / mtk Add text describing limit on total size of argv + envp, and changes that occurred with 2.6.23.
open.2 mtk, Acked by Ulrich Drepper Added description of O_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23) + other minor fixes for O_DIRECT.
recv.2 mtk Added description of MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23).
sysctl.2 mtk Strengthened the warning against using this system call and note that it may disappear in a future kernel version.
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