Gidday, The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-2.78.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 The online changelog is available at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html and the current version of the pages is browsable at http://www.kernel.org/doc/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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, with the body: subscribe linux-man ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.78 ==================== Released: 2008-02-15 Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Greg Banks <gnb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Michael Tokarev <mjt@xxxxxxxxxx> Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- sigaction.2 signal.2 sigwaitinfo.2 signal.7 mtk Add SEE ALSO entry referring to new signalfd.2 page. Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. New pages --------- eventfd.2 mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi Documents the eventfd() system call, new in 2.6.22. signalfd.2 mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi Documents the signalfd() system call, new in 2.6.22. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- futex.2 mtk / Phil Endecott Improve wording describing error returns. open.2 Greg Banks Greatly expand the detail on O_DIRECT. reboot.2 mtk / Michael Tokarev Fix RETURN VALUE description: in some cases reboot() does not return. mtk Rename the 'flag' argument to 'cmd', since that is more meaningful, and also what is used in the kernel source. Other minor wording changes. -- 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