Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:13:02 +0100 | Subject | man-pages-2.77 is released | From | Michael Kerrisk <> |
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Gidday
Some news: the man-pages web site at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ now includes a (Google-based) search facility for searching the pages that are online there.
I've released man-pages-2.77.
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
A full list of the changes in this release can be seen at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html A summary of the changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of this list is provided below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.77 ====================
Changes to individual pages ---------------------------
wait.2 Phil Endecott Clarify description of return value for WNOHANG.
tkill.2 mtk Rewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by tgkill().
alloca.3 mtk Various rewrites and additions (including notes on longjmp() and SIGSEGV). mtk / Vincent Lefevre Weaken warning against use of alloca(), and point out some cases where it can be useful; as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461100.
-- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html
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