Gidday, The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-3.35.tar.gz - man pages for Linux For the moment, the release artifacts are remain different locations than usual (and some of these changes may become permanent): This release tarball is available for download at: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/download/ The online changelog is available at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.35 (blogged at http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2011/10/man-pages-335-is-released.html ) and the current version of the pages is browsable at http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/ A git repository for man-pages can be found on github. 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Cheers, Michael ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.35 ==================== Released: 2011-10-04, Munich Contributors ------------ The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets in the changelog below) reports, notes and ideas that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> David Prévot <taffit@xxxxxxxxxx> Denis Barbier <bouzim@xxxxxxxxx> Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Guillem Jover <guillem@xxxxxxxxxxx> Jon Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> Kevin Lyda <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> Reuben Thomas <rrt@xxxxxxxx> Apologies if I missed anyone! New and rewritten pages ----------------------- recvmmsg.2 Andi Kleen, Michael Kerrisk New man page for recvmmsg(2) setns.2 Eric W. Biederman New manual page for setns(2) Michael Kerrisk Various improvements Global changes -------------- Various pages Michael Kerrisk Global fix: remove spaces around em-dash Normal English typographical convention is not to have spaces around em dashes. Various pages Michael Kerrisk Global fix: s/null pointer/NULL pointer/ Various pages Michael Kerrisk Global fix: use ORing Use "ORing", not "OR'ing", nor an italic ".IR OR ing". Various pages Michael Kerrisk Global fix: consistent use of "null wide character" Bring more consistency to the discussion of "[terminating] null wide character" by writing (at least in the initial use in a page) "[terminating] null wide character (L'\0')". Various pages Michael Kerrisk Global fix: consistent use of "null byte" Bring more consistency to the discussion of "[terminating] null byte" by writing (at least in the initial use in a page) "[terminating] null byte ('\0')". mount.2, prctl.2 Michael Kerrisk s/task/thread/ for consistency with other pages Changes to individual pages --------------------------- lseek.2 Guillem Jover CONFORMING TO: Note other systems that have SEEK_HOLE+SEEK_DATA recv.2 Michael Kerrisk Add mention of recvmmsg(2) recvmmsg.2 Michael Kerrisk SEE ALSO: add sendmmsg(2) send.2 Michael Kerrisk CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 adds MSG_NOSIGNAL sigwaitinfo.2 Michael Kerrisk Note that attempts to wait for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP are silently ignored stat.2 Michael Kerrisk Note POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008 requirements for lstat() Michael Kerrisk Regarding automounter action, add a reference to fstatat(2) Michael Kerrisk Clean up text describing which POSIX describes S_IF* constants aio_cancel.3 Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant] Clarify meaning of "return status" and "error status" gets.3 Michael Kerrisk POSIX.1-2008 marks gets() obsolescent The page formerly erroneously stated that POSIX.1-2008 removed the specification of this function. mbsnrtowcs.3 Michael Kerrisk CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008 This function is specified in the POSIX.1-2008 revision. regex.3 Michael Kerrisk [Reuben Thomas] Change "terminating null" to "terminating null byte" stpcpy.3 stpncpy.3 Mike Frysinger Note that these functions are in POSIX.1-2008 Update the "CONFORMING TO" sections of these functions to note that they are now part of the POSIX.1-2008 standard. stpncpy.3 Michael Kerrisk Change "terminating null" to "terminating null byte" strcpy.3 Mike Frysinger SEE ALSO: Add stpncpy(3) strdup.3 Michael Kerrisk CONFORMING TO: strndup() is in POSIX.1-2008 wcpcpy.3 wcpncpy.3 wcsnlen.3 wcsnrtombs.3 Michael Kerrisk CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008 These functions are specified in the POSIX.1-2008 revision. proc.5 Eric W. Biederman Document /proc/[pid]/ns/ Michael Kerrisk Some edit's to Eric Biederman's /proc/[pid]/ns/ additions capabilities.7 Michael Kerrisk List setns(2) as an operation allowed by CAP_SYS_ADMIN -- 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
