Gidday,
The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-3.65 - man pages for Linux
Tarball download:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html
Git repository:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/
Online changelog:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.65
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/04/man-pages-365-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-3.65 ====================
Released: 2014-04-20, 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:
Alex Thorlton <[email protected]>
Ashish Sangwan <[email protected]>
Christopher Covington <[email protected]>
Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Craig McQueen <[email protected]>
Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
David Prévot <[email protected]>
Greg Troxel <[email protected]>
Matthew Dempsky <[email protected]>
Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]>
Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
Namjae Jeon <[email protected]>
Peng Haitao <[email protected]>
Petr Gajdos <[email protected]>
Richard Hansen <[email protected]>
Simon Paillard <[email protected]>
Steven Stewart-Gallus <[email protected]>
Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Yuri Kozlov <[email protected]>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
inet_net_pton.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page describing inet_net_pton(3) and inet_net_ntop(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk, Namjae Jeon [Christoph Hellwig, Dave Chinner]
Document FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
prctl.2
Michael Kerrisk [Alex Thorlton]
Document PR_SET_THP_DISABLE and PR_GET_THP_DISABLE
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/[pid]/stack
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/[pid]/clear_refs
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note the race when O_CLOEXEC is used at same time as fork()+execve()
open.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add more detail on the race that O_CLOEXEC is designed to avoid
proc.5
Petr Gajdos
Improve /proc/[pid]/smaps entries description
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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