From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752455AbZJCGGa (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Oct 2009 02:06:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750756AbZJCGG3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Oct 2009 02:06:29 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:8365 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750711AbZJCGG3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Oct 2009 02:06:29 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=Q9hBMBMXXeF7LLYFbRJ6rtfZxbv5RR6hbqF8ruAMZIE9AVnm9m/eTY4gKc+nrG7tIx mP/5mtp2aUp2R7PAR9jepYJRqEutr8sXWk7ABBDF9Qasn3cb7vUQh/KP8Ga04JN9MJWr WHL0qqNZKbMN0erODZxYQA34Ss9Gnt406rpaE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:06:32 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: man-pages-3.23 is released From: Michael Kerrisk To: lkml Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gidday, I've released man-pages-3.23.tar.gz - man pages for Linux 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 man-pages nowadays also has a public git repository 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/2009/10/man-pages-323-release-my-book.html ) and the current version of the pages is browsable at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ This release consists entirely of fixes to existing pages. An abridged list changes that may be of interest to readers of this list is provided below. Cheers, Michael ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.23 ==================== Released: 2009-09-30, Munich getrusage.2 Michael Kerrisk ru_inblock and ru_oublock are now implemented These fields of the rusage structure are filled in since Linux 2.6.22. mmap.2 Michael Kerrisk Add brief documentation of MAP_HUGETLB This flag is new in 2.6.32, and serves a similar purpose to the shmget() SHM_HUGETLB flag. open.2 Christoph Hellwig add some comments on O_SYNC and friends splice.2 tee.2 vmsplice.2 Mark Hills Fix return type Since glibc 2.7, the return type for these functions is ssize_t (formerly it was long). mq_overview.7 Michael Kerrisk Change documented ranges for msg_max and msgsize_max Linux 2.6.28 changed the permissible ranges for these /proc files. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/