Gidday,
I've released man-pages-3.42.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_3.42
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2012/08/man-pages-342-is-released.html
The current version of the pages is browsable at:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
A few changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of
this list are given below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.42 ====================
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
ldd.1
Michael Kerrisk
Add security note on untrusted executables
See also http://www.catonmat.net/blog/ldd-arbitrary-code-execution/
and
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html
clone.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite discussion of sys_clone
ioprio_set.2
Colin McCabe
Clarify the multithreaded behavior of ioprio_set(2)
Michael Kerrisk [Марк Коренберг, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]
Document who==0 for IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS and IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP
For IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, who==0 means operate on the caller.
For IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP, who==0 means operate on the caller's
process group.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652443
migrate_pages.2
Michael Kerrisk [Christoph Lameter, JoonSoo Kim]
Fix description of return value
ptrace.2
Denys Vlasenko
Explain WNOHANG behavior and EINTR bug
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND
socket.7
Martin H
Document SO_MARK socket option
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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