Gidday,
I've released man-pages-3.48 - 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_3.48
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.de/2013/03/man-pages-348-is-released_12.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-3.48 ====================
New and rewritten pages
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getunwind.2
Marcela Maslanova
New page documenting getunwind(2)
Taken from Red Hat downstream man pages set
Michael Kerrisk
Much rewriting
Some text taken from arch/ia64/kernel/unwind.c.
perfmonctl.2
Ivana Varekova
New page documenting IA-64-specific perfmonctl(2)
Taken from Red Hat downstream man pages
Michael Kerrisk
Rework discussion of PFM_CREATE_CONTEXT
Add VERSIONS and CONFORMING TO
Note that there is no glibc wrapper
Remove PFM_CREATE_EVTSETS, PFM_DELETE_EVTSETS, PFM_GETINFO_EVTSETS
These don't exist, and it appears they never have.
Fix argument types for PFM_WRITE_PMCS, PFM_WRITE_PMDS, PFM_READ_PMDS
The types that were being used don't exist!
Briefly document PFM_GET_FEATURES, PFM_DEBUG, PFM_GET_PMC_RESET_VAL
gai.conf.5
Ulrich Drepper
New page documenting gai.conf
Taken from Red Hat downstream pages
nss.conf.5
Ulrich Drepper
New page describing nss.conf
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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clock_getres.2
Cyril Hrubis
Document CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE
Cyril Hrubis
Document CLOCK_BOOTTIME
Michael Kerrisk
Some improvements to CLOCK_BOOTTIME description
ptrace.2
Denys Vlasenko
Document PTRACE_GETREGSET, PTRACE_SETREGSET, PTRACE_SEIZE, and friends
Document PTRACE_GETREGSET, PTRACE_SETREGSET,
PTRACE_SEIZE, PTRACE_INTERRUPT, and PTRACE_LISTEN.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
Colin Walters
Note that access() may also fail for FUSE
Since in some cases (e.g. libguestfs's guestmount) it also has the
semantics where files can appear owned by root, but are actually
mutable by the user, despite what one might infer from the Unix
permissions.
mmap.2
Cyril Hrubis
Add note about partial page in BUGS section
This adds a note about Linux behavior with partial page at the end
of the object. The problem here is that a page that contains only
part of a file (because the file size is not multiple of PAGE_SIZE)
stays in page cache even after the mapping is unmapped and the file
is closed. So if some process dirties such page, other mappings
will see the changes rather than zeroes.
Michael Kerrisk [T?r?k Edwin]
Some 'flags' values require a feature test macro to be defined
Add text to NOTES noting that some MAP_* constants are
defined only if a suitable feature test macro is defined.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542601
Cyril Hrubis
Document EOVERFLOW error
prctl.2
Cyrill Gorcunov
Add some details for PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS
read.2
Michael Kerrisk [Zack Weinberg]
Clarify interaction of count==0 and error checking
POSIX deliberately leaves this case open, so the man
page should be less specific about what happens.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533232
Michael Kerrisk [Marc Lehmann]
Remove crufty text about O_NONBLOCK on files
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700529
capabilities.7
Andrey Vagin
Nonexistent bits are no longer shown as set in /proc/PID/status Cap*
inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk
A monitoring process can't easily distinguish events triggered by itself
rtnetlink.7
Pavel Emelyanov
Add info about ability to create links with given index
Since kernel v3.7 the RTM_NEWLINK message now accepts nonzero
values in ifi_index field. Mention this fact in the respective
rtnetlink.7 section.
socket.7
Pavel Emelyanov
SO_BINDTODEVICE is now readable
SO_BINDTODEVICE is readable since since kernel 3.8.