man-pages-3.47 is released

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2013 - 06:21:04 EST


Gidday,

I've released man-pages-3.47 - man pages for Linux.

Tarball download:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html
Git repository:
http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git
Online changelog:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.47

A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2013/02/man-pages-347-is-released.html

The current version of the pages is browsable at:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/

A few changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of
this list are given below.

Cheers,

Michael


==================== Changes in man-pages-3.47 ====================


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

perf_event_open.2
Vincent Weaver
New page documenting perf_event_open(2)

pthread_setname_np.3
Chandan Apsangi, Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_setname_np(3) and pthread_getname_np(3)

sln.8
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
New page documenting the 'sln' command provided by glibc
Inspired by a Red Hat downstream page, but with rather
more detail.


Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------

prctl.2
Michael Kerrisk [Shawn Landden, Lennart Poettering]
Document PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER and PR_GET_CHILD_SUBREAPER

ip.7
Radek Pazdera
Add source-specific multicast sockopts
This patch adds documentation of several source-specific multicast
socket options that were added to kernel with implementation
of IGMPv3 in 2.5.68.

The following socket options were added:
IP_ADD_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP
IP_DROP_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP
IP_BLOCK_SOURCE
IP_UNBLOCK_SOURCE
IP_MSFILTER


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

proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/profile
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