From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S968528Ab0B0Pvn (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:51:43 -0500 Received: from mail-bw0-f209.google.com ([209.85.218.209]:36873 "EHLO mail-bw0-f209.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S968435Ab0B0Pvl (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:51:41 -0500 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=VdeXTQlosiZjgS74euvqpugjdDqUqt80DMRHGO770uCL78diu4/Mb/fbZngo4YGPgJ VgfdvfjQYyEHEc7tYFgxWkVNHIL9+JGGiANYNsfAFPevK5e/oScd11nd+xPSquPuR6xV pVfwEsdXbq0We2zqJJ25qOrc1qeod/BwnxGnc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:51:39 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: man-pages-3.24 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-3.24.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/2010/02/man-pages-324-is-released.html ) and the current version of the pages is browsable at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ An abridged list of changes that may be of interest to readers of this list is given below. Cheers, Michael ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.24 ==================== Released: 2010-02-25, Munich New and rewritten pages ----------------------- add_key.2 David Howells New page documenting add_key(2) Taken from keyutils-1.1 package. keyctl.2 David Howells New page documenting keyctl(2) Taken from keyutils-1.1 package. request_key.2 David Howells New page documenting request_key(2) Taken from keyutils-1.1 package. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- clock_getres.2 Michael Kerrisk Update text on nonsetabble CLOCK_*_CPUTIME_ID clocks SUSv3 permits, but does not require CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID and CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID to be settable. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11972. execve.2 Colin Watson Fix description of treatment of caught signals Caught signals reset to their default on an execve() (not to being ignored). fcntl.2 Michael Kerrisk s/F_OWNER_GID/F_OWNER_PGRP/ Peter Zijlstra took the name change I suggested. fcntl.2 Michael Kerrisk Document F_[SG]ETOWN_EX; update details on F_SETOWN Linux 2.6.32 adds F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX. Linux 2.6.12 changed (broke) the former behavior of F_SETOWN with respect to threads. setgid.2 Michael Kerrisk Fix EPERM error description s/effective group ID/real group ID/ This bug lived in man pages for 15 years before Jason spotted it! I checked back in Linux 1.0, and the behavior was as the fixed man page describes. setreuid.2 Michael Kerrisk Add more detail on POSIX.1 specification for these syscalls sync_file_range.2 Christoph Hellwig Add some big warnings re data integrity This system call is by design completely unsuitable for any data integrity operations. Make that very clear in the manpage. capabilities.7 Michael Kerrisk Update securebits discussion to use SECBIT_* flags feature_test_macros.7 Michael Kerrisk _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200808 defines _ATFILE_SOURCE Since glibc 2.10, _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200808 defines _ATFILE_SOURCE signal.7 Michael Kerrisk Fix discussion of SIGUNUSED Clarify that this signal really is synonymous with SIGSYS. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14449 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/