Messages in this thread | | | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Subject | man-pages-4.04 is released | Date | Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:03:03 +0100 |
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Gidday,
The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-4.04 - man pages for Linux
This release includes input and contributions from more than 30 people.
Tarball download: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html Git repository: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/ Online changelog: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_4.04
A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/12/man-pages-404-is-released.html
The current version of the pages is browsable at: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
A selection of changes in this release that may be interesting for readers of this list is shown below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-4.04 ====================
New and rewritten pages -----------------------
futex.2 Michael Kerrisk, Thomas Gleixner, Torvald Riegel [Davidlohr Bueso, Heinrich Schuchardt, Darren Hart, Rusty Russell, Pavel Machek, Rich Felker] Rewrite and massively expand page
membarrier.2 Mathieu Desnoyers [Michael Kerrisk] New page documenting membarrier() system call
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages ---------------------------------------------
mlock.2 Eric B Munson [Michal Hocko, Vlastimil Babka, Michael Kerrisk] Document mlock2(2) and MCL_ONFAULT
Global changes --------------
Various pages Michael Kerrisk ERRORS: standardize text for EMFILE error
Various pages Michael Kerrisk ERRORS: standardize error text for ENOTSOCK error
Various pages Michael Kerrisk ERRORS: standardize text for ENFILE error
Changes to individual pages ---------------------------
fork.2 Michael Kerrisk Child of MT-process is restricted to async-signal-safe functions
gettimeofday.2 Carlos O'Donell Expand on the historical meaning of tz_dsttime
socketcall.2 Michael Kerrisk Since Linux 4.3, x86-32 provides direct system calls for the sockets API
time.2 Zack Weinberg Explain why the glibc time() wrapper never sets 'errno' Michael Kerrisk [H.J. Lu] Where time() is provided by vDSO, an invalid address may give SIGSEGV Michael Kerrisk [Paul Eggert] Describe EOVERFLOW details Michael Kerrisk SEE ALSO: add vdso(7) Michael Kerrisk Rename 't' argument to 'tloc'
proc.5 Michael Kerrisk Reaching /proc/sys/fs/file-max limit normally produces an ENFILE error
vdso.7 Michael Kerrisk Add note on strace(1) and vDSO
ld.so.8 H.J. Lu [Michael Kerrisk] Document LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC Michael Kerrisk Clarify setting of LD_BIND_NOT Michael Kerrisk Clarify setting of LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK Michael Kerrisk Clarify setting of LD_TRACE_PRELINKING Michael Kerrisk Clarify some details for LD_SHOW_AUXV
-- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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