man-pages-3.79 is released

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Gidday,

The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:

    man-pages-3.79 - man pages for Linux

Tarball download:
    http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html
Git repository:
    https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/
Online changelog:
    http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.79

A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/09/man-pages-379-is-released.html

A selection of changes in this release that may be interesting
for readers of this list is shown below.

Cheers,

Michael

==================== Changes in man-pages-3.79 ====================

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

getrandom.2
    Heinrich Schuchardt, Theodore T'so, Michael Kerrisk
        New page documenting getrandom(2)
            Kernel 3.17 introduces a new system call getrandom(2).

kexec_load.2
    Vivek Goyal, Michael Kerrisk
        Add documentation of kexec_file_load(2)
    Michael Kerrisk, Vivek Goyal
        Rewrite and extend documentation of kexec_load().

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

socket.2
    Stephan Mueller
        document AF_ALG
            Add a reference to the AF_ALG protocol accessible via socket(2).

signal.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add getrandom(2) to list of restartable system calls
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add F_OFD_SETLKW to list of restartable operations

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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