man-pages-3.09 is released

man-pages-3.09 is released

[Michael Kerrisk]

Gidday

I've released man-pages-3.09.

This release is now available for download at:

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
    or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages

This release is now available for download at:

    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
    or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages

The online changelog is available at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html
(blogged at
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2008/09/man-pages-309-is-released.html)
and the current version of the pages is browsable at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/

An abridged version of the changes in this release that may be of
interest to readers of this list is provided below.

Cheers,

Michael


==================== Changes in man-pages-3.09 ====================


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

fopencookie.3
    mtk
        Document fopencookie(3), a library function that allows
        custom implementation of a stdio stream.

networks.5
    Martin (Joey) Schulze, with a few light edits by mtk
        Documents the /etc/networks file.


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

fcntl.2
    mtk, after a note by Mike Bianchi
        More clearly and consistently describe whether
        or not the third argument to fcntl() is required,
        and what its type should be.

sched_setscheduler.2
    Carsten Emde
        Update kernel version numbers relating to real-time support.

proc.5
    Mats Wichmann / mtk
        s/\[number]/[pid]/ in file names for /proc/PID files.
        And similar changes for task/[tid] sub-directories.
    Joe Korty
        Document new fields in /proc/interrupts that were added in
        Linux 2.6.24.