Gidday, Some 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. * Starting with 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. Back to the normal program: The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-2.69.tar.gz - man pages for Linux This release is 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.) 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Subscribe by sending a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, with the body: subscribe linux-man ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.69 ==================== Released: 2007-12-03 Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@xxxxxxxxxx> Alain PORTAL <alain.portal@xxxxxxx> Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx> J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> David Härdeman <david@xxxxxxxxxxx> Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx> Luke Browning <lukebr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@xxxxxxxxx> Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@xxxxxxxxx> Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> Reuben Thomas <rrt@xxxxxxxx> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- *.?p mtk Many whitespace clean-ups in formatted output. mprotect.2 bind.2 mq_notify.3 makecontext.3 fmemopen.3 David Härdeman / mtk Rename error handling function in example program (s/die/handle_error/). Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. Removed pages ------------- HOWTOHELP MAINTAINING mtk The content of these files is now available in HTML format. New links --------- cfsetspeed.3 mtk Link to termios.3. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- time.1 Alain Portal Added "Linux User's Manual" to .TH line. _syscall.2 aeb / mtk Remove outdated text about pointer blocks for syscalls that have more than 5 arguments. fcntl.2 J. Bruce Fields Add warning that mandatory locking is unreliable. J. Bruce Fields Clarify details in description of file leases. J. Bruce Fields /mtk Minor wording edits. J. Bruce Fields Add F_GETLEASE under RETURN VALUE. mmap.2 mtk Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro. sched_setscheduler.2 Mats Wichmann Add BUGS text noting that the return value from Linux sched_setschuler() does not conform to POSIX. spu_create.2 Jeremy Kerr Various updates and improvements. Luke Browning Refinement of text describing a "gang". mtk Minor edits. spu_run.2 Jeremy Kerr Various updates and improvements. mtk Minor edits. err.3 mtk Remove HISTORY section. fopen.3 Mike Frysinger Document 'e' (close-on-exec) option, new in glibc 2.7. getloadavg.3 Alain Portal / mtk Remove HISTORY section. printf.3 Andries E. Brouwer / mtk Fix the discussion of stdarg macros in the description of vprintf() description. sem_wait.3 mtk Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro. sigsetops.3 Mats Wichmann Note that sigset_t objects must be initialized with sigemptyset() or sigfillset() before the other macros are employed. termios.3 mtk, after a note by Alain Portal Added cfsetspeed() to SYNOPSIS. Added text under CONFORMING TO noting that cfsetspeed() is BSD specific. ttyslot.3 Alain Portal Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since that is the manual page more likely to be found on current systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.) initrd.4 mtk, after a note by Alain Portal Move "Configuration" section to top of page (like other section 4 pages) and make it a .SH section. full.4 mtk Re-ordered CONFIGURATION section to go before DESCRIPTION. sk98lin.4 Maxime Vaudequin Fix reference to kernel Documentation file. elf.5 mtk Renamed HISTORY section to NOTES, and removed BSD specific info. proc.5 Maxime Vaudequin Mention grub(8) in same sentence as lilo(8). Maxime Vaudequin Improve description of /proc/sys/abi and /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe. utmp.5 Alain Portal Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since that is the manual page more likely to be found on current systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.) iso_8859-2.7 Adam Borowski Reverse the 2.68 change (applied by mtk in response to Debian bug 445085) that replaced "Sorbian" with "Serbian". (Sorbian is a language of 50000 people in Brandenburg.) man-pages.7 mtk Added CONFIGURATION to list of "standard" section names. spufs.7 Jeremy Kerr Various updates and improvements. mtk Minor edits. tcp.7 Maxime Vaudequin Fix reference to kernel Documentation file. -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project (Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the Linux man pages) http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html