Gidday, Some news: * man-pages now has an (irregularly updated) blog. http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/ * 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. Back to the program as usual... The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-2.72.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.) You are receiving this message either because: a) You contributed to the content of this release. b) You are subscribed to linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (*). c) I have information (possibly inaccurate) that you are the maintainer of a translation of the manual pages, or are the maintainer of the manual pages set in a particular distribution, or have expressed interest in helping with man-pages maintenance, or have otherwise expressed interest in being notified about man-pages releases. If you don't want to receive such messages from me, or you know of some other translator or maintainer who may want to receive such notifications, send me a message. Cheers, Michael (man-pages maintenance is supported by Google, as a Google engineer 20% project.) (*) linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the man pages discussion list. Subscribe by sending a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, with the body: subscribe linux-man ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.72 ==================== Released: 2007-12-29 Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Alain PORTAL <alain.portal@xxxxxxx> Alex Tuninga <atuninga@xxxxxxxxxx> Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@xxxxxxxxx> Rob Weryk <rjweryk@xxxxxx> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- Various pages Alain PORTAL / mtk Format include files consistently (".I <.*\.h>"). Various pages Alain PORTAL / mtk Format pathname in italics (.I). dbopen.3 mpool.3 recno.3 Alain PORTAL Remove brackets ([]) around error names. console.4 tty.4 ttyS.4 issue.5 ttytype.5 utmp.5 mtk / Maxime Vaudequin Some systems have mingetty(8), others have agetty(8), so both should be mentioned when we are talking about getty-style programs. Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. Renamed pages ------------- filesystems.5 mtk / Alain PORTAL Was previously fs.5 New links --------- fs.5 mtk / Alain PORTAL Link to filesystems.5. New links --------- argz.3 Bert Wesarg / mtk Link to argz_add.3. envz.3 Bert Wesarg / mtk Link to envz_add.3. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- readahead.2 Rob Weryk Fix declaration of 'offset' in SYNOPSIS. seteuid.2 mtk s/SETGUID/SETEUID/ in .TH line. __setfpucw.3 mtk Fixed include files references / formatting. abort.3 mtk, after a note by Alex Tuninga A fairly significant rewrite to clarify operation of abort(). argz_add.3 Bert Wesarg / mtk s/envz/envz_add/ in SEE ALSO. basename.3 mtk s/DIRNAME/BASENAME/ in .TH line, and swap function names in NAME section. envz_add.3 Bert Wesarg / mtk s/argz/argz_add/ in SEE ALSO. flockfile.3 mtk s/LOCKFILE/FLOCKFILE/ in .TH line. getgrent_r.3 mtk s/GETGRENT/GETGRENT_R/ in .TH line. stdio.3 Sam Varshavchik Reformat function list at end of page as a proper table. ttyslot.3 Maxime Vaudequin Revert earlier s/getty/mingetty/. This page talks about historical behavior, and that means "getty(8)". undocumented.3 mtk Remove reference to "obstack stuff"; it's not clear that that is about. console_ioctl.4 mtk s/CONSOLE_IOCTLS/CONSOLE_IOCTL/ in .TH line. proc.5 mtk s/fs (5)/filesystems (5)/ man-pages.7 mtk / Alain PORTAL Improve discussion of formatting of file names. -- 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 - 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