linux-kernel - Re: [kernel] man-pages-3.68 is released

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1405291132370.5598@filesrv1.baby-dragons.com>
Date:	Tue, 3 Jun 2014 09:40:57 -0800 (AKDT)
From:	"Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@...y-dragons.com>
To:	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [kernel] man-pages-3.68 is released

 	Helo Michael ,  Thank you !-)  JimL

On Thu, 29 May 2014, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:

> Gidday,
>
> The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces his 150th release
> as project maintainer:
>
>    man-pages-3.68 - man pages for Linux
>
> 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_3.68
>
> A short summary of the release is blogged at:
> http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/05/man-pages-368-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-3.68 ====================
>
> Released: 2014-05-28, Munich
>
>
> New and rewritten pages
> -----------------------
>
> localedef.1
>    Marko Myllynen, Richard Braakman, Alastair McKinstry, Lars Wirzenius
>        New page for localedef(1)
>            Add new page based on Debian localedef(1) page.
>
>
> Changes to individual pages
> ---------------------------
>
> locale.1
>    Marko Myllynen
>        Provide a step-by-step example of how to use a custom locale
>
> fork.2
>    Michael Kerrisk
>        ERRORS: add pid_max and threads-max to EAGAIN
>            And rewrite text to be the same as pthread_create(3).
>
> proc.5
>    Michael Kerrisk
>        'pid_max' is a system-wide limit on number of threads and processes
>            Since PIDs > /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max are not allocated, this
>            file thus also imposes a system-wide limit on the number of
>            threads and processes.
>
> capabilities.7
>    Michael Kerrisk
>        CAP_SYS_ADMIN allows overriding RLIMIT_NPROC
>    Michael Kerrisk
>        CAP_SYS_PTRACE allows process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2)
>
> inotify.7
>    Heinrich Schuchardt
>        Add example program
>            This example of the usage of the inotify API shows the
>            usage of inotify_init1(2) and inotify_add_watch(2) as well
>            as polling and reading from the inotify file descriptor.
>
> locale.7
>    Marko Myllynen [Michael Kerrisk]
>        Document the LOCPATH environment variable
>
>

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