Gidday,
I've released man-pages-3.41.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_3.41
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2012/05/man-pages-341-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-3.41 ====================
New and rewritten pages
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get_robust_list.2
Ivana Varekova [Michael Kerrisk]
New page documenting get_robust_list(2) and set_robust_list(2)
mallinfo.3
Michael Kerrisk [KOSAKI Motohiro, Paul Pluzhnikov]
New page for mallinfo(3)
malloc_info.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jakub Jelinek]
New page for malloc_info(3)
malloc_stats.3
Michael Kerrisk [KOSAKI Motohiro]
New man page for malloc_stats(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
madvise.2
Jason Baron
Document MADV_DONTDUMP and MADV_DODUMP
Changes to individual pages
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clock_getres.2
Michael Kerrisk [Josh Triplett]
Expand description of CLOCK_REALTIME
Make it clear that this clock may be discontinuous, and is
affected my incremental NTP and clock-adjtime(2) adjustments.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=540872
io_cancel.2
io_destroy.2
io_getevents.2
io_setup.2
io_submit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite to focus on system call API
Rewrite to focus on the system call interface, adding
some notes on the libaio wrapper differences.
See the following mail:
2012-05-07 "aio manuals", [email protected]
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/1935/focus=2910
open.2
Nick Piggin [KOSAKI Motohiro, Jan Kara, Hugh Dickins]
Describe race of direct I/O and fork()
Rework 04cd7f64, which didn't capture the details correctly.
See the April/May 2012 linux-man@ mail thread "[PATCH]
Describe race of direct read and fork for unaligned buffers"
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/77571
poll.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that 'timeout' is a *minimum* interval
Make it clear that 'timeout' is a minimum interval; the actual
interval will be rounded up to the system clock granularity,
and may overrun because of kernel scheduling delays.
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify discussion of wrapper function emulation
Clarify that glibc (as well as old libc) provides emulation
using select(2) on older kernels that don't have a poll()
system call.
Michael Kerrisk
Make the meaning of a zero timeout explicit
Clarify that timeout==0 causes an immediate return, even if
no file descriptors are ready.
pread.2
Michael Kerrisk [Kasper Dupont]
BUGS: Note O_APPEND + pwrite() does the wrong thing
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43178
select.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that 'timeout' is a *minimum* interval
Make it clear that 'timeout' is a minimum interval; the actual
interval will be rounded up to the system clock granularity,
and may overrun because of kernel scheduling delays.
Michael Kerrisk
Expand description of the self-pipe trick
Michael Kerrisk
Add further details on pselect6() system call that underlies pselect()
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Note that CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes can override file-max
Upstreamed from red Hat / Fedora
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/[pid]/cgroup
Upstreamed from Red Hat / Fedora
ipv6.7
Stefan Puiu
Add ENODEV error for bind() to link-local IPv6 address
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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/