Gidday, The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-3.23.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/2009/10/man-pages-323-release-my-book.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 Gidday, ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.23 ==================== Released: 2009-09-30, Munich Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Aaron Gardner <aaron.j.gardner@xxxxxxxxx> Andrey Vihrov <vihrov@xxxxxxxxx> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Georg Sauthoff <gsauthof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Leslie P. Polzer <sky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@xxxxxxxx> Mark Hills <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx> Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Siward de Groot <siward@xxxxxxxx> rui rlex <rui.rlex@xxxxxxxxx> Apologies if I missed anyone! Changes to individual pages --------------------------- execve.2 pipe.2 tee.2 fmemopen.3 mq_notify.3 qsort.3 Michael Kerrisk Replace use of assert() by code that checks argc See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13569 As noted by Andrey: The purpose of the assert macro, defined in <assert.h>, is to provide a tool to check for programming mistakes or program logic errors. However, the assert macro must never be used to perform checks for run time errors, since, with the NDEBUG macro defined, expressions within the assert macro invocations are not evaluated/checked for, resulting in behavior that was not originally intended. ... The pages affected in the core package are execve(2) pipe(2) tee(2) fmemopen(3) mq_notify(3) qsort(3) getrusage.2 Michael Kerrisk ru_inblock and ru_oublock are now implemented These fields of the rusage structure are filled in since Linux 2.6.22. mmap.2 Michael Kerrisk Add brief documentation of MAP_HUGETLB This flag is new in 2.6.32, and serves a similar purpose to the shmget() SHM_HUGETLB flag. open.2 Christoph Hellwig add some comments on O_SYNC and friends poll.2 Michael Kerrisk Clarify wording describing of 'nfds' argument. reported by: rui rlex <rui.rlex@xxxxxxxxx> semctl.2 Nicolas François Remove some redundant words setpgid.2 Michael Kerrisk Add an explanation of orphaned process groups splice.2 tee.2 vmsplice.2 Mark Hills Fix return type Since glibc 2.7, the return type for these functions is ssize_t (formerly it was long). stat.2 Nicolas François Fix small bug in example program Since it is a failure, EXIT_FAILURE looks more appropriate than EXIT_SUCCESS. umount.2 Michael Kerrisk glibc only exposes MNT_DETACH and MNT_EXPIRE since version 2.11 See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10092 exit.3 Michael Kerrisk Add a pointer to explanation of orphaned process groups in setpgid(2) fflush.3 Michael Kerrisk fflush() discards buffered input ffs.3 Michael Kerrisk Clarify that ffsl() and ffsll() are GNU extensions getaddrinfo.3 Michael Kerrisk Note nonstandard assumed hints.ai_flags value when hints is NULL When hints is NULL, glibc assumes hints.ai_flags is AI_V4MAPPED|AI_ADDRCONFIG whereas POSIX says 0. According to Ulrich Drepper, glibc's behavior is better. getmntent.3 Mike Frysinger setmntent() argument is 'filename' not 'fp' The description of setmntent() formerly used the wrong argument name. posix_fallocate.3 Nicolas François Fix reference to POSIX.1-2008 The sentence mentions twice POSIX.1-2001. I guess the second one should be POSIX.1-2008. This should be checked in the standard. setenv.3 Michael Kerrisk Improve ERRORS section Add ENOMEM error; improve EINVAL description. Also, make RETURN VALUE section a little more accurate in its mention of errno. strftime.3 Nicolas François Fix error in description: s/Monday/Thursday/ proc.5 Nicolas François Fix page cross reference max_user_watches is better explained in epoll(7) than inotify(7). proc.5 Michael Kerrisk dmesg is in section 1, not section 8 capabilities.7 Michael Kerrisk FS UID manipulations affect CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE and CAP_MKNOD Nowadays, file system UID manipulations also affect CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE (since 2.6.3) and CAP_MKNOD (since 2.6.29). capabilities.7 Michael Kerrisk Fix version number for CAP_MKNOD in DS UID manipulations A recent patch said "since 2.6.29". It should have been "since 2.6.30". capabilities.7 Nicolas François Reword a bad sentence in description of capability bounding set. mq_overview.7 Michael Kerrisk Change documented ranges for msg_max and msgsize_max Linux 2.6.28 changed the permissible ranges for these /proc files. tcp.7 udp.7 Nicolas François Replace references to syctl interfaces with /proc -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Watch my Linux system programming book progress to publication! http://blog.man7.org/ -- 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
