Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Date | Thu, 3 May 2012 19:15:14 +1200 | Subject | man-pages-3.40 is released |
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Gidday,
I've released man-pages-3.40.tar.gz - man pages for Linux.
Tarball download: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html 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_3.40
A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2012/05/man-pages-340-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-3.40 ====================
New and rewritten pages -----------------------
process_vm_readv.2 Mike Frysinger, Christopher Yeoh, Michael Kerrisk New page for process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2)
mcheck.3 Michael Kerrisk New man page for mcheck(3) and related functions Also describes mcheck_check_all(3), mcheck_pedantic(3), and mprobe(3)
Changes to individual pages ---------------------------
clock_getres.2 Michael Kerrisk Clarify difference between CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW Note interactions of these two clocks with discontinuous adjustments to the system time and NTP/adjtime(2).
gettimeofday.2 Michael Kerrisk gettimeofday() is affected by discontinuous jumps in the system time Advise reader to use clock_gettime(2), if they need a monotonically increasing time source.
prctl.2 Michael Kerrisk Add PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE and PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_ENABLE Add some basic documentation of these operations, with a pointer to tools/perf/design.txt for more information.
-- 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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