man-pages-3.83 is released

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Gidday,

The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:

    man-pages-3.83 - 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_3.82

A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/04/man-pages-383-is-released.html

A selection of changes in this release that may be interesting
for readers of this list is shown below.

Cheers,

Michael

==================== Changes in man-pages-3.83 ====================

New and rewritten pages
-----------------------

posix_madvise.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        New page documenting posix_madvise(3)

ftw.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        Reorganize the page to give primacy to nftw()
            nftw() is the better API, and POSIX.1-2008 marks ftw() obsolete.

Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------

getdents.2
    Michael Kerrisk  [Dima Tisnek]
        Document getdents64()
            See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14795

mount.2
    Michael Kerrisk, Theodore Ts'o  [Eric Sandeen, Andreas Dilger,
    Omar Sandoval, Darrick J. Wong]
        Document MS_LAZYTIME

proc.5
    Michael Kerrisk
        Document /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
    Michael Kerrisk
        Document /proc/PID/fdinfo epoll format
    Michael Kerrisk
        Describe /proc/PID/fdinfo eventfd format
    Michael Kerrisk
        Document /proc/PID/fdinfo signalfd format


Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

getrlimit.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Note that the underlying system call for prlimit() is prlimit64()

ioctl_list.2
    Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
        SIOCADDRT accepts in6_rtmsg in INET6 protocol
    Heinrich Schuchardt
        TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS
            timerfd_create.2 mentions TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS. We should add it to
            ioctl_list.2, too.

llseek.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Advise reader to use lseek(2) instead
    Michael Kerrisk
        llseek() exists on 32-bit platforms to support seeking to large offsets

madvise.2
    David Rientjes
        Specify MADV_REMOVE returns EINVAL for hugetlbfs
            madvise(2) actually returns with error EINVAL for MADV_REMOVE
            when used for hugetlb VMAs, not EOPNOTSUPP, and this has been
            the case since MADV_REMOVE was introduced in commit f6b3ec238d12
            ("madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing
            store"). Specify the exact behavior.

posix_fadvise.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add "C library/kernel ABI differences" subsection

pread.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add "C library/kernel ABI differences" subsection

stat.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add some details on various "stat" versions
            Three versions of "stat" appeared on 32-bit systems,
            dealing with structures of different (increasing) sizes.
            Explain some of the details, and also note that the
            situation is simpler on modern 64-bit architectures.

timerfd_create.2
    Cyrill Gorcunov  [Michael Kerrisk]
        Document TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS ioctl() operation

proc.5
    Michael Kerrisk
        Describe "mnt_id" field of /proc/PID/fdinfo
    Michael Kerrisk
        Note that abstract sockets are included in /proc/net/unix
    Michael Kerrisk  [Vlastimil Babka]
        Enhance discussion of /proc/PID/status 'VmSwap' field

icmp.7
    YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明
        Document net.ipv4.ping_group_range knob

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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