Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755385AbXJHTyk (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:54:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752084AbXJHTyd (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:54:33 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:49931 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752751AbXJHTyc (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:54:32 -0400 X-Authenticated: #24879014 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+jzYlhzQ+jeTt2LNh1x7/LOU3JKSe/+5UU1W8Lr2 Ph8SdFY8iS+GZK Message-ID: <470A8A4E.3020301@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:51:42 +0200 From: Michael Kerrisk User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20060911) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml Subject: man-pages-2.66 is released Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1804 Lines: 69 Gidday, Some news: the list linux-man@vger.kernel.org has been created for the purpose of discussing Linux man page bugs, patches, and maintenance. To subscribe, send a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org, with the body: subscribe linux-man Back to the news as usual... I recently released man-pages-2.66. This release is now available for download at: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages Changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of this list are noted below. Cheers, Michael (man-pages maintenance is supported by Google, as a Google engineer 20% project.) ==================== Changes in man-pages-2.66 ==================== New pages --------- fallocate.2 David Chinner, with some input from Amit Amora and mtk Describes the fallocate() system call, new in 2.6.23. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- close.2 Fredrik Noring Add text cautioning about use of close() in multithreaded programs. execve.2 Ollie Wild / mtk Add text describing limit on total size of argv + envp, and changes that occurred with 2.6.23. open.2 mtk, Acked by Ulrich Drepper Added description of O_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23) + other minor fixes for O_DIRECT. recv.2 mtk Added description of MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23). sysctl.2 mtk Strengthened the warning against using this system call and note that it may disappear in a future kernel version. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/