man-pages-2.41 is released
From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Thu Oct 12 2006 - 03:53:30 EST
Gidday,
I recently released man-pages-2.41.
This release is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
or mirrors: ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
and soon at:
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages
Changes in this release that may be of interest to readers
of this list include the following:
New pages
---------
splice.2
tee.2
vmsplice.2
Jens Axboe / Michael Kerrisk
See also:
http://lwn.net/Articles/118760/
http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/
http://lwn.net/Articles/179492/
http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505
http://lwn.net/Articles/179434/
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
madvise.2
mtk
Document MADV_REMOVE, new in 2.6.16.
Document MADV_DONTFORK / MADV_DOFORK, new in 2.6.16.
prctl.2
Marcel Holtmann / mtk
Since kernel 2.6.18, setting 2 for PR_SET_DUMPABLE is no longer
possible.
Guillem Jover
Updated Linux versions where the options where introduced.
Added PR_SET_TIMING, PR_GET_TIMING, PR_SET_NAME, PR_GET_NAME,
PR_SET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_SET_FPEMU, PR_GET_FPEMU,
PR_SET_FPEXC, PR_GET_FPEXC.
Michael Kerrisk
Document PR_GET_ENDIAN and PR_SET_ENDIAN.
posix_fadvise.2
Andrew Morton
Since 2.6.18, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE is a no-op.
termios.3
mtk
Documented IUTF8 (which was new in kernel 2.6.4).
Cheers,
Michael
--
Michael Kerrisk
maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/
read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'.
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