Gidday, The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-2.76.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 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 (*) 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-2.76 ==================== Released: 2008-01-14 Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Alain Portal <aportal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- longjmp.3 printf.3 scanf.3 setbuf.3 setjmp.3 sk98lin.4 environ.7 mtk Rework/remove use of ".ad" macros. ioctl_list.2 mlock.2 mprotect.2 mremap.2 syslog.2 cfree.3 mpool.3 offsetof.3 rpc.3 stdin.3 mtk Fix unbalanced quotes in formatting macros. ftok.3 mtk s/i-node/inode/, for consistency with other pages and POSIX.1-2001. Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- chown.2 mtk Minor wording change. dup.2 mtk Reordered text in DESCRIPTION and added some details for dup2(). open.2 Trond Myklebust / mtk Minor fix to O_EXCL changes in previous release. gettid.2 mtk Rewrote DESCRIPTION; noted that thread ID is not the same thing as a POSIX thread ID. pipe.2 mtk Rewrote DESCRIPTION; minor additions to EXAMPLE text. umask.2 mtk A few rewrites and additions. strptime.3 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon / mtk Add "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" to example program. initrd.4 mtk Use quotes more consistently in formatting macros. random.4 mtk, after a report by Daniel Kahn Gilmor Add 2.6 details for /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize. as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459232. pthreads.7 mtk Minor changes. spufs.7 mtk / Jeremy Kerr s/MultiSource Synchronization/MultiSource Synchronization (MSS)/ -- 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