Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754830Ab2ECHPh (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2012 03:15:37 -0400 Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:47826 "EHLO mail-bk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752778Ab2ECHPg (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2012 03:15:36 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 19:15:14 +1200 Message-ID: Subject: man-pages-3.40 is released To: lkml Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2219 Lines: 70 Gidday, I've released man-pages-3.40.tar.gz - 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_3.40 A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2012/05/man-pages-340-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-3.40 ==================== New and rewritten pages ----------------------- process_vm_readv.2 Mike Frysinger, Christopher Yeoh, Michael Kerrisk New page for process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2) mcheck.3 Michael Kerrisk New man page for mcheck(3) and related functions Also describes mcheck_check_all(3), mcheck_pedantic(3), and mprobe(3) Changes to individual pages --------------------------- clock_getres.2 Michael Kerrisk Clarify difference between CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW Note interactions of these two clocks with discontinuous adjustments to the system time and NTP/adjtime(2). gettimeofday.2 Michael Kerrisk gettimeofday() is affected by discontinuous jumps in the system time Advise reader to use clock_gettime(2), if they need a monotonically increasing time source. prctl.2 Michael Kerrisk Add PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE and PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_ENABLE Add some basic documentation of these operations, with a pointer to tools/perf/design.txt for more information. -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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/