Gidday, The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces: man-pages-3.40.tar.gz - man pages for Linux Tarball download: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html Git repository: http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git Online changelog: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.40 A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2012/05/man-pages-340-is-released.html The current version of the pages is browsable at: http://man7.org/linux/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-3.40 ==================== Released: 2012-04-27, Christchurch 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: Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Bernhard Walle <bernhard@xxxxxxxxx> Brian F. G. Bidulock <bidulock@xxxxxxxxxxx> Brian M. Carlson <sandals@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@xxxxxxxxxxx> Daniel J Blueman <daniel@xxxxxxxxx> Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> James Hunt <james.hunt@xxxxxxxxxx> John Sullivan <jsrhbz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Jon Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> lepton <ytht.net@xxxxxxxxx> Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx> Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxx> Simon Paillard <spaillard@xxxxxxxxxx> Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@xxxxxxxxx> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxx> Vadim Mikhailov <vadim.mikhailov@xxxxxxxxx> Apologies if I missed anyone! New and rewritten pages ----------------------- process_vm_readv.2 Mike Frysinger, Christopher Yeoh, Michael Kerrisk New page for process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2) mcheck.3 Michael Kerrisk New man page for mcheck(3) and related functions Also describes mcheck_check_all(3), mcheck_pedantic(3), and mprobe(3) Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- rcmd.3 Michael Kerrisk Document "_af" variants of these functions Document rcmd_af(), rresvport_af(), iruserok_af(), ruserok_af(). Also some restructuring and other clarifications. rexec.3 Michael Kerrisk Document rexec_af() New and changed links --------------------- iruserok_af.3 rcmd_af.3 rresvport_af.3 ruserok_af.3 Michael Kerrisk New links to rcmd.3 rexec_af.3 Michael Kerrisk New link to rexec.3 Changes to individual pages --------------------------- clock_getres.2 Michael Kerrisk Clarify difference between CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW Note interactions of these two clocks with discontinuous adjustments to the system time and NTP/adjtime(2). fallocate.2 Michael Kerrisk [John Sullivan] Fix description of ENOSYS and EOPNOTSUP errors As reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680214 fchmodat.2 Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger] Improve discussion of difference between wrapper and underlying syscall gettimeofday.2 Michael Kerrisk gettimeofday() is affected by discontinuous jumps in the system time Advise reader to use clock_gettime(2), if they need a monotonically increasing time source. Michael Kerrisk SEE ALSO: Add clock_gettime(2) prctl.2 Michael Kerrisk Add PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE and PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_ENABLE Add some basic documentation of these operations, with a pointer to tools/perf/design.txt for more information. Michael Kerrisk [Marcel Holtmann] Amend details of PR_SET_PDEATHSIG ptrace.2 Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger] Note SPARC deviation with respect to get/set regs SPARC reverses the use of 'addr' and 'data' for PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, and PTRACE_SETFPREGS. send.2 Stefan Puiu Document EACCES error case for UDP sigaction.2 Michael Kerrisk Remove mention of raise(3) for SI_USER For a long time now, glibc's raise(3) didn't yield SI_USER for the signal receiver, so remove mention of raise(3) here. The user can deduce the details, if needed, by looking at the recently updated raise(3) page. aio_cancel.3 Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant] Rewrite RETURN VALUE section to be clearer aio_init.3 Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant] Remove extraneous "POSIX" from NAME section btree.3 dbopen.3 hash.3 mpool.3 recno.3 Michael Kerrisk [Brian M. Carlson] Note that glibc no longer provides these interfaces glibc stopped providing these interfaces with v2.2. Nowadays, the user that finds these pages probably wants the libdb API, so note this in the page. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337581 fopen.3 Michael Kerrisk BUGS: Note limitation on number of flag characters parsed in 'mode' Michael Kerrisk Note that 'c' and 'e' flags are ignored for fdopen() Determined from reading libio/iofdopen.c. Michael Kerrisk Document ",ccs=string" feature of 'mode' for fopen()/freopen() getgrnam.3 Michael Kerrisk [Ulrich Drepper] Fix discussion of _SC_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX The value is not meant to be a maximum (as was specified in SUSv3) but an initial guess at the required size (as specified in SUSv4). getpwnam.3 Michael Kerrisk [Ulrich Drepper] Fix discussion of _SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX The value is not meant to be a maximum (as was specified in SUSv3) but an initial guess at the required size (as specified in SUSv4). malloc.3 mallopt.3 mtrace.3 Michael Kerrisk SEE ALSO: add mcheck(3) memchr.3 Michael Kerrisk Clarify description, omitting mention of "strings" and "characters" The existing text slipped into talking about characters and strings, which could mislead readers into thing that, for example, searches for the byte '\0' are treated specially. Therefore, rewrite in terms of "bytes" and "memory areas". At the same time, make a few source file clean-ups. mkstemp.3 Michael Kerrisk Add "mkstemps" and "mkostemps" to NAME line posix_openpt.3 Michael Kerrisk [Vadim Mikhailov] Add some details on use of the slave pathname An explicit pointer to ptsname(3) is useful, as is a note of the fact that the slave device pathname exists only as long as the master device is held open. raise.3 Michael Kerrisk Add some notes on underlying system call that is used rcmd.3 Michael Kerrisk Add some details of the rresvport() 'port' argument resolver.3 Petr Baudis Note that many options are documented in resolv.conf(5) scandir.3 Michael Kerrisk [Daniel J Blueman] Improve EXAMPLE source code: s/0/NULL/ in scandir() call strchr.3 James Hunt Explain behavior when searching for '\0' strerror.3 Eric Blake [Stefan Puiu] Improve strerror_r() description POSIX requires that perror() not modify the static storage returned by strerror(). POSIX 2008 and C99 both require that strerror() never return NULL (a strerror() that always returns "" for all inputs is valid for C99, but not for POSIX). http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12204 documents glibc's change to come into compliance with POSIX regarding strerror_r() return value. The GNU strerror_r() use of 'buf' was confusing - I ended up writing a test program that proves that 'buf' is unused for valid 'errnum', but contains truncated "unknown message" for out-of-range 'errnum'. See also http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=382 Bernhard Walle Correct description of error return for XSI strerror_r() Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake] Note how to use 'errno' to detect errors when calling strerror() Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant] Add an example of the kind of string returned by strerror() resolv.conf.5 Petr Baudis Document "single-request" option inotify.7 Michael Kerrisk Note buffer size that guarantees being able to read at least one event James Hunt Correct description of size of inotify_event structure iso_8859-1.7 Eugen Dedu Add "-" for SOFT HYPHEN See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=156154 netdevice.7 Brian F. G. Bidulock Document some SIOC configuration ioctls This patch adds common but missing SIOC configuration ioctls to the netdevice.7 manual pages that are not documented anywhere else. SIOCSIFPFLAGS and SIOCGIFPFLAGS are linux-specific. Flag values come from Linux 2.6.25 kernel headers for sockios. The others are standard BSD ioctls that have always been implemented by Linux and were verified from inspecting netdevice.c kernel code. socket.7 Michael Kerrisk [Alexey Toptygin] Correct description of SO_BROADCAST tcp.7 lepton Correct description for TCP_MAXSEG on modern kernel -- 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
