Gidday,
I've released man-pages-3.58 - 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_3.58
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/02/man-pages-359-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-3.58 ====================
Released: 2014-02-11, Munich
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
pipe.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document the pipe2() O_DIRECT flag added in Linux 3.4
packet.7
Daniel Borkmann
Document PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS
New in Linux 3.14.
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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/
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:17:52PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> pipe.2
> Michael Kerrisk
> Document the pipe2() O_DIRECT flag added in Linux 3.4
Eww, reusing O_DIRECT for some totally different semantics is nasty.
Did this go by linux-man back in the day?
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:17:52PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> pipe.2
>> Michael Kerrisk
>> Document the pipe2() O_DIRECT flag added in Linux 3.4
>
> Eww, reusing O_DIRECT for some totally different semantics is nasty.
> Did this go by linux-man back in the day?
(I suspect you meant linux-api@)
Nope. I happened to discover the new flag by accident while grepping
the sources.
Cheers,
Michael
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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/