On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Ram Gupta wrote: > >> Does any one know for a way to get accurate man pages for a particular >> kernel version? > [...] >> As kernel keeps evolving man pages keep >> changing too > > Sorry for a late response. The intent is for the man-pages package to > document all kernel versions. So when there are relevant differences > between versions that it does not explain, do please feel free to let > us know (ideally in the form of a patch, but a friendly comment is > fine, too). > > Of course, like most documentation, these manpages are not perfect, so > if you need reliable information I'd suggest looking at the kernel > source. Ack. Jonathan's summary is precisely accurate. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
