Gidday,
The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-3.83 - 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_3.82
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/04/man-pages-383-is-released.html
A selection of changes in this release that may be interesting
for readers of this list is shown below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.83 ====================
New and rewritten pages
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posix_madvise.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting posix_madvise(3)
ftw.3
Michael Kerrisk
Reorganize the page to give primacy to nftw()
nftw() is the better API, and POSIX.1-2008 marks ftw() obsolete.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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getdents.2
Michael Kerrisk [Dima Tisnek]
Document getdents64()
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14795
mount.2
Michael Kerrisk, Theodore Ts'o [Eric Sandeen, Andreas Dilger,
Omar Sandoval, Darrick J. Wong]
Document MS_LAZYTIME
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/PID/fdinfo epoll format
Michael Kerrisk
Describe /proc/PID/fdinfo eventfd format
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/PID/fdinfo signalfd format
Changes to individual pages
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getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that the underlying system call for prlimit() is prlimit64()
ioctl_list.2
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
SIOCADDRT accepts in6_rtmsg in INET6 protocol
Heinrich Schuchardt
TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS
timerfd_create.2 mentions TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS. We should add it to
ioctl_list.2, too.
llseek.2
Michael Kerrisk
Advise reader to use lseek(2) instead
Michael Kerrisk
llseek() exists on 32-bit platforms to support seeking to large offsets
madvise.2
David Rientjes
Specify MADV_REMOVE returns EINVAL for hugetlbfs
madvise(2) actually returns with error EINVAL for MADV_REMOVE
when used for hugetlb VMAs, not EOPNOTSUPP, and this has been
the case since MADV_REMOVE was introduced in commit f6b3ec238d12
("madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing
store"). Specify the exact behavior.
posix_fadvise.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add "C library/kernel ABI differences" subsection
pread.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add "C library/kernel ABI differences" subsection
stat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add some details on various "stat" versions
Three versions of "stat" appeared on 32-bit systems,
dealing with structures of different (increasing) sizes.
Explain some of the details, and also note that the
situation is simpler on modern 64-bit architectures.
timerfd_create.2
Cyrill Gorcunov [Michael Kerrisk]
Document TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS ioctl() operation
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Describe "mnt_id" field of /proc/PID/fdinfo
Michael Kerrisk
Note that abstract sockets are included in /proc/net/unix
Michael Kerrisk [Vlastimil Babka]
Enhance discussion of /proc/PID/status 'VmSwap' field
icmp.7
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明
Document net.ipv4.ping_group_range knob
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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/