Gidday,
I've released man-pages-3.55 - 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_3.55
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/01/man-pages-356-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-3.56 ====================
New and rewritten pages
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vdso.7
Mike Frysinger
New page documenting the vDSO mapped into each process by the kernel
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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reboot.2
Elie De Brauwer
Document LINUX_REBOOT_SW_SUSPEND
Changes to individual pages
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close.2
Michael Kerrisk [P?draig Brady]
Note that errors from close() should be used only for diagnosis
In particular, retrying after EINTR is a bad idea.
See http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=529
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/37702
Subject: [RFC][BZ #14627] Make linux close errno to EINPROGRESS
when interrupted in signal.
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver [Sudhanshu Goswami]
Clarify issues with the disabled bit
Clarify the perf_event_open behavior with respect to the disabled
bit and creating event groups.
Vince Weaver [Sudhanshu Goswami]
Clarify issues with the exclusive bit
Warn that using the perf_event_open "exclusive" bit, while
it might seem like a good idea, might lead to all 0 results
in some common usage cases.
setpgid.2
Michael Kerrisk [Joseph S. Myers]
BSD getpgrp() and setpgrp() go away in glibc 2.19
socket.2
Michael Kerrisk [Dongsheng Song]
Remove crufty statement that AF_INET does not support SOCK_SEQPACKET
Linux AF_INET supports SOCK_SEQPACKET via SCTP.
dlopen.3
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
Update remarks on cast needed when assigning dlsym() return value
POSIX.1-2013 eases life when casting the dlsym() return value to a
function pointer
setjmp.3
Michael Kerrisk [Joseph S. Myers]
BSD setjmp() semantics go away in glibc 2.19
sigpause.3
Michael Kerrisk [Joseph S. Myers]
BSD sigpause() goes away in glibc 2.19
credentials.7
Michael Kerrisk
List APIs that operate on process groups
Michael Kerrisk
Add details on controlling terminal and foreground/background jobs
feature_test_macros.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document _DEFAULT_SOURCE
Michael Kerrisk [Joseph S. Myers]
From glibc 2.19, _BSD_SOURCE no longer causes __FAVOR_BSD
Starting with glibc 2.19, _BSD_SOURCE no longer causes BSD
definitions to be favored in cases where standards conflict.
man-pages.7
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
Add STYLE GUIDE section
Incorporate some of the existing material in the page
into the STYLE GUIDE, and add a lot more material, mainly
drawn from the "Global changes" sections in the release
changelogs.
packet.7
Willem de Bruijn [Daniel Borkmann]
Document fanout, ring, and auxiliary options
This patch adds descriptions of the common packet socket options
PACKET_AUXDATA, PACKET_FANOUT, PACKET_RX_RING, PACKET_STATISTICS,
PACKET_TX_RING
and the ring-specific options
PACKET_LOSS, PACKET_RESERVE, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, PACKET_VERSION
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel version numbers for PACKET_VERSION and PACKET_TIMESTAMP
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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/