linux-kernel - man-pages-2.71 and man-pages-2.72 are released

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Message-ID: <476242FE.50805@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:46:54 +0100
From:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>
To:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: man-pages-2.71 and man-pages-2.72 are released

Gidday,

Repeating some old news:

* man-pages now has a website:

      http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages

  The site includes HTML versions of the current set of man-pages.

* Since man-pages-2.69, each man page now includes a COLOPHON
  section at the end of the page which indicates the version of
  man-pages in which this page is released, and also contains a
  pointer to the man-pages web site.

* The list linux-man@...r.kernel.org has been created for
  the purpose of discussing Linux man page bugs, patches,
  and maintenance.  To subscribe, send a message to
  majordomo@...r.kernel.org, with the body:

        subscribe linux-man

Back to the news as usual...

I recently released man-pages-2.71 and man-pages-2.72.

These releases are now available for download at:

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
    or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages

    (Note the s/manpages/man-pages/ in these paths;
    a symlink with the old path will exist for
    a limited time.)

Changes in these releases can be seen at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html#release_2.71
and
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html#release_2.72

Many of the changes in these releases consist of formatting and consistency
fixes.  A few of the changes that may be of interest to readers of this
list are summarized below.

Cheers,

Michael
(man-pages maintenance is supported by Google, as a Google engineer 20%
project.)

==================== Changes in man-pages-2.71 ====================

Global changes
--------------

err.3
fts.3
getloadavg.3
queue.3
rcmd.3
rexec.3
stdin.3
elf.5
operator.7
    mtk
        Replaced the use of mdoc macros on these pages with man
        macros.  The only pages in man-pages that still use
        mdoc macros are mdoc.7 and mdoc.samples.7.

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.

Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

fcntl.2
    mtk
        Document the F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC operation, which is
        new in kernel 2.6.24.

==================== Changes in man-pages-2.72 ====================

Global changes
--------------

abort.3
    mtk, after a note by Alex Tuninga
        A fairly significant rewrite to clarify operation of abort().

-- 
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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