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Message-ID: <5cy4sb3beseqeehhva5r5f5ji3ofvotzobqcp3634k3lqeeoqi@nxf5gxvdifcn>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:24:59 +0100
From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
To: linux-man@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, libc-alpha@...rceware.org
Subject: man-pages-6.16 released
Gidday!
I'm proud to announce:
man-pages-6.16 - manual pages for GNU/Linux
Tarball download:
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/>
Git repository:
<https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/>
Online PDF book:
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/book/>
Thanks to all the contributors to this release (in BCC)!
And thanks to our sponsors!
- Adfinis <https://adfinis.com/>
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(The list of sponsors will change soon, as we're in talks for renewing
sponsors. If any company would like to sponsor the project, it would
be a great moment to manifest.)
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==================== NEWS =========================================
This release adds two build dependencies:
- awk/awk
- pcre2-utils/pcre2grep
==================== Linux Software Map ===========================
Begin4
Title: Linux man-pages
Version: 6.16
Entered-date: 2025-10-29
Description: Manual pages for GNU/Linux. This package contains
manual pages for sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7, and
subsections of those. Only a few pages are provided in
sections 1, 6, and 8, and none in 9.
Keywords: man pages
Maintained-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
Primary-site: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
2.7M man-pages-6.16.tar.gz
Copying-policy: several; the pages are all freely distributable as long as
nroff source is provided
End
==================== Changes in man-pages-6.16 ====================
Released: 2025-10-29, Aldaya
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
man2/
fsconfig.2
fsmount.2
fsopen.2
fspick.2
move_mount.2
open_tree.2
man2const/
PR_FUTEX_HASH_GET_SLOTS.2const
PR_FUTEX_HASH_SET_SLOTS.2const
man2type/
mount_attr.2type (split from mount_setattr(2))
man3/
_Fork.3
countof.3
memeq.3
streq.3
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
man2/
mount_setattr.2
glibc wrapper
pidfd_open.2
PIDFD_THREAD
pidfd_send_signal.2
PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD
PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD_GROUP
PIDFD_SIGNAL_PROCESS_GROUP
quotactl.2
quotactl_fd(2)
readv.2
RWF_DONTCACHE
sigaction.2
SI_ASYNCNL
FPE_FLTUNK
FPE_CONDTRAP
SEGV_ACCADI
SEGV_ADIDERR
SEGV_ADIPERR
SEGV_MTEAERR
SEGV_MTESERR
SEGV_CPERR
TRAP_UNK
TRAP_PERF
SYS_USER_DISPATCH
EMT_TAGOVF
man3/
abs.3
umaxabs(3)
opendir.3
ENAMETOOLONG
man7/
operator.7
(type){}
alignof
_Countof
rtnetlink.7
RTAX_UNSPEC
RTAX_LOCK
RTAX_MTU
RTAX_WINDOW
RTAX_RTT
RTAX_RTTVAR
RTAX_SSTHRESH
RTAX_CWND
RTAX_ADVMSS
RTAX_REORDERING
RTAX_HOPLIMIT
RTAX_INITCWND
RTAX_FEATURES
RTAX_RTO_MIN
RTAX_INITRWND
RTAX_QUICKACK
RTAX_CC_ALGO
RTAX_FASTOPEN_NO_COOKIE
sched.7
CONFIG_PREEMPT
CONFIG_PREEMPT_LAZY
tcp.7
TCP_SAVE_SYN
TCP_SAVED_SYN
New and changed links
---------------------
man2/
open_tree_attr.2 (open_tree(2))
quotactl_fd.2 (quotactl(2))
man3/
umaxabs.3 (abs(3))
Global changes
--------------
- man/
- Update documentation for POSIX.1-2024 (still more work to do).
- SYNOPSIS: Use GNU forward-declarations of parameters for sizes of
array parameters.
- Improve style of source code for tbl(1) tables.
- man2/: Use the common name 'fd' instead of 'fildes'.
- Use semantic newlines.
- EXAMPLES
- Use err(3) and errc(3bsd) instead of similar macros.
- Fix includes (thanks to iwyu(1)).
- Use NITEMS() consistently.
- Don't name unused parameters.
- share/mk/
- Add support for the chapter man3attr.
- help: Document the usual targets.
- lint-man-blank: Add target to lint about blank lines.
- lint-man-ws: Diagnose spurious use of white space.
- lint-man-quote: Diagnose an unmatched quote.
- lint-man-poems: Diagnose (lack of) semantic newlines.
- lint-man-dash: Diagnose unescaped dashes
- Merge handling of man(7) and mdoc(7) pages.
- lint, build, check: Move exceptions to separate files.
- Remove unused variables.
- Unify local variable names.
- Silence diagnostics about unnamed parameters.
- configure/build-depends/:
- Add awk/awk.
- Add pcre2-utils/pcre2grep.
Changes to individual files
---------------------------
- src/bin/
- sortman(1): Fix order of intro(*) pages for subsections.
- diffman-git(1): Show sections as hunk context.
The manual pages and other files in the repository have been improved
beyond what this changelog covers. To learn more about changes applied
to individual pages, or the authors of changes, use git(1).
--
<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es>
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