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Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:56:38 +0200
From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@....net>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: man-pages-2.63 is released
Gidday,
I recently released man-pages-2.63.
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
and soon at:
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/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-2.63 ====================
New pages
---------
sgetmask.2
mtk
A real man page for sgetmask(2) and ssetmask(2).
(This page replaces a previous link of the same, which linked
signal.2.)
spu_create.2
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU spu_create() system call.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
spu_run.2
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU spu_run() system call.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
spufs.7
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU file system.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
New links
---------
chown32.2
fchown32.2
getegid32.2
geteuid32.2
getgid32.2
getgroups32.2
getresgid32.2
getresuid32.2
getuid32.2
lchown32.2
setfsgid32.2
setfsuid32.2
setgid32.2
setgroups32.2
setregid32.2
setresgid32.2
setresuid32.2
setreuid32.2
setuid32.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "32".
fcntl64.2
fstat64.2
fstatat64.2
fstatfs64.2
ftruncate64.2
getdents64.2
lstat64.2
pread64.2
pwrite64.2
sendfile64.2
stat64.2
statfs64.2
truncate64.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "64".
__clone2.2
clone2.2
mtk
Links to clone.2.
ugetrlimit.2
mtk
Link to getrlimit.2.
mq_notify.2
mq_open.2
mq_timedreceive.2
mq_timedsend.2
mq_unlink.2
mtk
Added as links to corresponding section 3 pages.
fadvise64.2
fadvise64_64.2
mtk
Links to posix_fadvise.2.
rt_sigaction.2
rt_sigpending.2
rt_sigprocmask.2
rt_sigtimedwait.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "rt_" prefix.
rt_sigqueueinfo.2
mtk
Link to sigqueue.2.
madvise1.2
tuxcall.2
vserver.2
mtk / Ivana Varekova
Link to unimplemented.2.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
mtk
Fairly substantial rewrites of various parts,
and a few additions.
chown.2
mtk
Added an example program.
killpg.2
mtk
Note that killpg() is actually a library function on Linux.
mmap.2
mtk
Added note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays invokes mmap2().
mmap2.2
Ivana Varekova / mtk
On most platforms the unit for 'offset' is 4096 bytes, not
the system page size.
mtk
Rewrote NOTES to note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays
invokes this system call.
mtk
Added an EXAMPLE program.
semop.2
mtk
Add an example code segment.
sigqueue.2
mtk
Added info on rt_sigqueueinfo(2).
sigwaitinfo.2
mtk
Noted that sigwaitinfo() is a library function implemented on
top of sigtimedwait().
stat.2
mtk
Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
have appeared over time.
uname.2
mtk
Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
have appeared over time.
proc.5
mtk
Update/correct text on /proc/malloc.
mtk, after a note by Pierre Habouzit, and a few comments
by Justin Pryzby
Update description of /proc/PID/stat to match 2.6.21.
See Debian bug 417933.
inotify.7
mtk
IN_DONT_FOLLOW and IN_ONLYDIR are only available from 2.6.15.
signal.7
Stepan Kasal / mtk
Note SIGRTMIN value depends on glibc.
mtk
Various rewrites and additions to the text in real-time signals.
Add SEE ALSO reference to sgetmask.2.
--
Michael Kerrisk
maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/
read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'.
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