Gidday,
The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-4.02 - man pages for Linux
This release includes various new man pages and makes changes
in nearly 400 other pages, based on input and contributions from
around 15 people.
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_4.01
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/08/man-pages-402-is-released.html
The current version of the pages is browsable at:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
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-4.02 ====================
New and rewritten pages
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dladdr.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting dladdr() and dladdr1()
Relocate/rewrite dladdr() text formerly contained in dlopen(3).
Add documentation of dladdr1().
dlinfo.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page describing dlinfo(3)
dlopen.3
Michael Kerrisk
This page was substantially rewritten and enhanced. Notably:
* the dladdr(), dlsym, dlvsym(), and dlerror() content were moved
to separate new pages
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
dlopen.3
Michael Kerrisk, Carlos O'Donell
Document dlmopen(3)
nl_langinfo.3
Sam Varshavchik, Michael Kerrisk
Add documentation for nl_langinfo_l(3)
__ppc_set_ppr_med.3
Gabriel F. T. Gomes
Document PPC functions providing access to PPR
GNU C Library 2.18 adds functions (__ppc_set_ppr_low(3),
__ppc_set_ppr_med(3), __ppc_set_ppr_med_low(3)) that provide
access to the Program Priority Register (PPR).
__ppc_yield.3
Gabriel F. T. Gomes
Document PPC performance-hint functions
GNU C Library 2.18 adds functions __ppc_yield(3), __ppc_mdoio(3),
and __ppc_mdoom(3) that can be used provide a hint that
performance could be improved if shared resources are released
for use by other processors.
Global changes
--------------
Very many pages
Michael Kerrisk
Update CONFORMING TO section to reflect POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008
details. (By now, I believe all pages should be up to date with
respect to appropriately mentioning POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008.)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bpf.2
Daniel Borkmann
Various updates/follow-ups to address some fixmes
A couple of follow-ups to the bpf(2) man-page, besides others:
* Description of map data types
* Explanation on eBPF tail calls and program arrays
* Paragraph on tc holding ref of the eBPF program in the kernel
* Updated ASCII image with tc ingress and egress invocations
* __sync_fetch_and_add() and example usage mentioned on arrays
* minor reword on the licensing and other minor fixups
io_getevents.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note return value on interruption by a signal handler
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify details of return value for timeout-expired case
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify and extend discussion of 'timeout' argument
mmap.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that 'length' need not be a page-size multiple for munmap()
Michael Kerrisk [David Rientjes, David Rientjes, Mike Kravetz]
Describe mmap()/munmap() argument requirements for huge-page mappings
fanotify.7
Heinrich Schuchardt
Clarify effects of file moves
If files or directories are moved to other mounts, the inode is
deleted. Fanotify marks are lost.
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Michael Kerrisk
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