Gidday, The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-3.17.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-317-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 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.17 ==================== Released: 2009-01-19, Hobart Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Adeodato Simó <dato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@xxxxxxxxx> Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro@xxxxxx> Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@xxxxxx> Marc Lehmann <schmorp@xxxxxxxxxx> Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@xxxxxxxxx> Apologies if I missed anyone! New and rewritten pages ----------------------- endian.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting byte order conversion functions Document functions (new in glibc 2.9) for conversion between host byte order and big-/little- endian byte order: htobe16(), htole16(), be16toh(), le16toh(), htobe32(), htole32(), be32toh(), le32toh(), htobe64(), htole64(), be64toh(), le64toh() getifaddrs.3 Petr Baudis New page documenting getifaddrs(3) and freeifaddrs(3) Many edits and changes of Petr's initial draft by mtk cp1251.7 Lefteris Dimitroulakis New page documenting CP 1251 (Windows Cyrillic) character set iso-8859-10.7 Lefteris Dimitroulakis New page documenting ISO 8859-10 character set iso_8859-13.7 Lefteris Dimitroulakis New page documenting ISO 8859-13 character set iso_8859-14.7 Lefteris Dimitroulakis New page documenting ISO 8859-14 character set iso_8859-3.7 Lefteris Dimitroulakis New page documenting ISO 8859-3 character set iso_8859-5.7 Lefteris Dimitroulakis New page documenting ISO 8859-5 character set iso_8859-8.7 Lefteris Dimitroulakis New page documenting ISO 8859-8 character set koi8-u.7 Lefteris Dimitroulakis New page documenting KOI8-U character set Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- epoll.7 Michael Kerrisk Document /proc interfaces for limiting kernel memory usage Document the following /proc files that were added in Linux 2.6.28: /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches netdevice.7 Michael Kerrisk Document recently added interface flags IFF_LOWER_UP (since Linux 2.6.17) IFF_DORMANT (since Linux 2.6.17) IFF_ECHO (since Linux 2.6.25) Documentation taken from comments in <linux/if.h> New and changed links --------------------- freeifaddrs.3 Michael Kerrisk New link to new getifaddrs.3 htobe16.3 htole16.3 be16toh.3 le16toh.3 htobe32.3 htole32.3 be32toh.3 le32toh.3 htobe64.3 htole64.3 be64toh.3 le64toh.3 Michael Kerrisk New links to new endian.3 iso-8859-10.7 iso_8859_10.7 latin6.7 Michael Kerrisk New links to new iso_8859-10.7 iso-8859-13.7 iso_8859_13.7 latin7.7 Michael Kerrisk New links to new iso_8859-13.7 iso-8859-14.7 iso_8859_14.7 latin8.7 Michael Kerrisk New links to new iso_8859-14.7 iso-8859-3.7 iso_8859_3.7 latin3.7 Michael Kerrisk New links to new iso_8859-3.7 iso-8859-5.7 iso_8859_5.7 Michael Kerrisk New links to new iso_8859-5.7 iso-8859-8.7 iso_8859_8.7 Michael Kerrisk New links to new iso_8859-8.7 Changes to individual pages --------------------------- bind.2 Michael Kerrisk SEE ALSO: Add getifaddrs(3) epoll_create.2 Michael Kerrisk Document EMFILE error This error is encountered when the limit imposed by /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances is encountered. Michael Kerrisk Clarify distinction between epoll instance and epoll file descriptor Reword so that the notion of an epoll instance is made clear, and made distinct from the notion of an epoll file descriptor. Some other minor rewordings also. epoll_ctl.2 Michael Kerrisk Reordered parts of the text Michael Kerrisk Introduce notion of epoll instance Introduce notion of epoll instance as distinct from epoll file descriptor. Plus other wording clean-ups. Michael Kerrisk Document ENOSPC error (new in Linux 2.6.28) This error results when the limit imposed by /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches is encountered. epoll_wait.2 Michael Kerrisk Introduce the notion of an epoll instance into text getdents.2 Michael Kerrisk Before kernel < 2.6.4, 'd_type' was effectively always DT_UNKNOWN gethostid.2 Michael Kerrisk Rename file (was misnamed gethostd.2 in previous release) getsockname.2 Michael Kerrisk SEE ALSO: Add getifaddrs(3) signalfd.2 Michael Kerrisk Fix description of fork() semantics The page text described the semantics of the initial implementation of signalfd(). These were changed early on, but the man page wasn't updated. byteorder.3 Michael Kerrisk SEE ALSO: add endian(3) longjmp.3 Michael Kerrisk Clarify wording re saving/restoring signal mask Michael Kerrisk siglongjmp() restores signal mask iff 'savesigs' was non-zero Note that siglongjmp() restores signal mask if, and only if, 'savesigs' argument of sigsetjmp() was non-zero. (Previous text omitted the "and only if".) memccpy.3 Michael Kerrisk Fix CONFORMING TO: s/C99/POSIX.1-2001/ Michael Kerrisk If the memory areas overlap, the results are undefined sethostid.3 Michael Kerrisk Rename file (was misnamed sethostd.3 in previous release) setjmp.3 Michael Kerrisk Clarify wording re saving/restoring signal mask Michael Kerrisk Clarify when setjmp() provides BSD vs System V signal mask semantics strsep.3 Michael Kerrisk BUGS: explicitly list problems afflicting strsep() Previously, the page said this function suffered the same problems as strtok(), but in fact strsep() doesn't suffer from all of the same problems as strtok(), so explicitly list just the problems of strsep() in the strsep.3 page. proc.5 Michael Kerrisk Add pointer to epoll(7) for description of epoll /proc files epoll.7 Michael Kerrisk Various wording changes to improve clarity and consistency -- 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
