Gidday, The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-3.16.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 (blogged at http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2009/01/man-pages-316-is-released.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-3.16 ==================== Released: 2009-01-13, Christchurch Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx> Florentin Duneau <fduneau@xxxxxxxxx> Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> Apologies if I missed anyone! New and rewritten pages ----------------------- pthread_getcpuclockid.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting pthread_getcpuclockid(3) libc.7 Michael Kerrisk New page giving brief overview of C libraries on Linux rtld-audit.7 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting dynamic linker audting API Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- ld.so.8 Petr Baudis Document LD_AUDIT Petr Baudis Document LD_POINTER_GUARD New and changed links --------------------- gethostid.2 Michael Kerrisk New link to new page location in Section 3 sethostid.2 Michael Kerrisk Change link to point to new page location in Section 3 sethostid.3 Michael Kerrisk New link to relocated page in Section 3 glibc.7 Michael Kerrisk New link to new libc.7 Global changes -------------- syscalls.2 feature_test_macros.7 standards.7 Michael Kerrisk SEE ALSO: add libc(7) dlopen.3 ld.so.8 Michael Kerrisk SEE ALSO: add rtld-audit(7) Changes to individual pages --------------------------- gethostid.2 Michael Kerrisk Move to Section 3 The interfaces documented in this page are purely glibc. syscalls.2 Michael Kerrisk Kernel 2.6.28 adds accept4() clock_getres.3 Michael Kerrisk SEE ALSO: Add pthread_getcpuclockid(3) fmemopen.3 Michael Kerrisk Fix VERSIONS information gethostid.3 Michael Kerrisk Before version 2.2, glibc stored the host ID in /var/adm/hostid Also: rewrite some text describing the /etc/hostid file, so that this location is referred to just once on the page. Michael Kerrisk RETURN VALUE: describe return value of sethostid() Michael Kerrisk Added BUGS section noting that ID can't be guaranteed to be unique Michael Kerrisk Added ERRORS section describing errors for sethostid() Michael Kerrisk Update section number to reflect relocation into Section 3 printf.3 Michael Kerrisk Source and destination buffers may not overlap for *s*printf() http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7075 Some existing code relies on techniques like the following to append text to a buffer: $ cat s.c #include <stdio.h> char buf[80] = "not "; main() { sprintf(buf, "%sfail", buf); puts(buf); return 0; } $ cc s.c $ ./a.out not fail However, the standards say the results are undefined if source and destination buffers overlap, and with suitable compiler options, recent changes can cause unexpected results: $ cc -v 2>&1 | grep gcc gcc version 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036] (SUSE Linux) $ cc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE -O2 s.c $ ./a.out fail readdir.3 Michael Kerrisk Rewrite text describing 'dirent' fields standardized in POSIX.1 Michael Kerrisk Clarify text for return value/errno setting for end-of-stream case nscd.8 Petr Baudis Correct NOTES section on reloading configuration files It behaved this way at least since "Sun Oct 18 15:02:11 1998 +0000", some four months after including the nscd implementation in glibc. But there does seem to be a short window between glibc-2.1 and glibc-2.1.3 when nscd -i was not available, I don't think it's worth muddling the point of the page with that, though. -- 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
