Documents the Linux kernel system calls and C library interfaces used
by programs, plus system and administrative utilities, devices, file
system, file, and data formats, and related information.
For more information, see the project home page:
https://kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
As Cygwin has its own man pages with some conflicts, these man pages are
installed under /usr/share/man/man-pages-linux/, so by default searching
or viewing these pages requires the option:
$ apropos -m|--systems man-pages-linux ...
$ man -m|--systems man-pages-linux ...
Cygwin man pages are under the default system "man", so for convenience
both systems may be specified separated by comma e.g.
$ man -m man,man-pages-linux ...
The path or option may also be added explicitly to a user's MANPATH or
alias e.g.
$ export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/share/man/man-pages-linux
$ alias apropos='apropos -m man,man-pages-linux'
$ alias man='man -m man,man-pages-linux'
Add -a to show both Cygwin and Linux (and POSIX if companion package
man-pages-posix is also installed) manual pages.
For convenience and backward compatibility /usr/share/man/linux is
provided as a symlink.
If you prefer to see Linux man pages over Cygwin man pages, then use
-m|--systems linux in the examples above, or add -m linux to a command.
Release 6 and later added some section 2 and 3 pages suffixed by const,
head, or type installed in the base section directories.
The following package has been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
- man-pages-linux 6.14
For recent changes, see below, or after installation read
/usr/share/doc/man-pages-linux/Changes:
2025-05-09 6.14
New and rewritten pages
man2const/
UFFDIO_MOVE.2const
man7/
mctp.7
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
man2/
fanotify_init.2
FAN_REPORT_FD_ERROR
FAN_REPORT_MNT
fanotify_mark.2
FAN_PRE_ACCESS
FAN_MARK_MNTNS
FAN_MNT_ATTACH, FAN_MNT_DETACH
open_by_handle_at.2
AT_HANDLE_CONNECTABLE
AT_HANDLE_MNT_ID_UNIQUE
man2const/
TIOCLINUX.2const
TIOCL_SELCHAR
TIOCL_SELWORD
TIOCL_SELLINE
TIOCL_SELPOINTER
TIOCL_SELCLEAR
TIOCL_SELMOUSEREPORT
man3/
abs.3
uabs(3)
ulabs(3)
ullabs(3)
uimaxabs(3)
man7/
fanotify.7
FAN_DENY_ERRNO()
FAN_REPORT_FD_ERROR
FAN_PRE_ACCESS
FAN_RESPONSE_INFO_AUDIT_RULE
FAN_REPORT_MNT
FAN_MNT_ATTACH, FAN_MNT_DETACH
FAN_EVENT_INFO_TYPE_MNT
New and changed links
man3/
uabs.3 (abs(3))
ulabs.3 (abs(3))
ullabs.3 (abs(3))
uimaxabs.3 (abs(3))
Global changes
- CREDITS, *
- Move in-source contribution records to a new CREDITS file, and
update copyright notices to be uniform across the project.
- man/
- Use GNU forward declarations of parameters for sizes of array
parameters.
- \fX => \f[X]
- Use 'path' instead of 'pathname' for parameters.
Changes to individual files
The manual pages and other files in the repository have been improved
beyond what this changelog covers. To learn more about changes applied
to individual pages, or the authors of changes, use git(1).
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