Gidday,
The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-4.04 - man pages for Linux
This release includes input and contributions from
more than 30 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_4.04
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/12/man-pages-404-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-4.04 ====================
New and rewritten pages
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futex.2
Michael Kerrisk, Thomas Gleixner, Torvald Riegel [Davidlohr Bueso, Heinrich Schuchardt, Darren Hart, Rusty Russell, Pavel Machek, Rich Felker]
Rewrite and massively expand page
membarrier.2
Mathieu Desnoyers [Michael Kerrisk]
New page documenting membarrier() system call
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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mlock.2
Eric B Munson [Michal Hocko, Vlastimil Babka, Michael Kerrisk]
Document mlock2(2) and MCL_ONFAULT
Global changes
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Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: standardize text for EMFILE error
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: standardize error text for ENOTSOCK error
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: standardize text for ENFILE error
Changes to individual pages
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fork.2
Michael Kerrisk
Child of MT-process is restricted to async-signal-safe functions
gettimeofday.2
Carlos O'Donell
Expand on the historical meaning of tz_dsttime
socketcall.2
Michael Kerrisk
Since Linux 4.3, x86-32 provides direct system calls for the sockets API
time.2
Zack Weinberg
Explain why the glibc time() wrapper never sets 'errno'
Michael Kerrisk [H.J. Lu]
Where time() is provided by vDSO, an invalid address may give SIGSEGV
Michael Kerrisk [Paul Eggert]
Describe EOVERFLOW details
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
Michael Kerrisk
Rename 't' argument to 'tloc'
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Reaching /proc/sys/fs/file-max limit normally produces an ENFILE error
vdso.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add note on strace(1) and vDSO
ld.so.8
H.J. Lu [Michael Kerrisk]
Document LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify setting of LD_BIND_NOT
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify setting of LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify setting of LD_TRACE_PRELINKING
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify some details for LD_SHOW_AUXV
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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/