man-pages-3.11 is released

man-pages-3.11 is released

[Michael Kerrisk]

Gidday

I've released man-pages-3.10.

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 very latest version of man-pages is always available via git, at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git .)

The online changelog is available at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html
(blogged at
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2008/10/man-pages-311-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
particular interest to readers of this list is provided below.

Cheers,

Michael

==================== Changes in man-pages-3.11 ====================

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

umount.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Create a new page for umount() and umount2() by extracting
        existing material from mount.2 page.


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

getdents.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        getdents.2: Add an example program
        getdents.2: comment out linux_dirent fields with varying location
        getdents.2: The DT_* constants are defined in <dirent.h>
        getdents.2: remove header files from SYNOPSIS
        getdents.2: The programmer must define the linux_dirent structure
        getdents.2: s/dirent/linux_dirent/

mount.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        mount.2: Add description of per-process namespaces
        mount.2: Document MS_SILENT (and MS_VERBOSE)

signal.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        signal.7: improve description in NAME section
        signal.7: Add mention of sigaltstack(2).
        signal.7: Describe syscalls that synchronously wait for a signal,
        signal.7: Give overview of syscalls that block until a signal is caught
        signal.7: Add overview of interfaces for sending signals.
        signal.7: describe semantics w.r.t. fork() and execve()

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git
man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html
Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html