man-pages-2.71 released

Gidday,

Some news:

* man-pages now has an (irregularly updated) blog.

http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/

* man-pages now has a website:

http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages

The site includes HTML versions of the current set of man-pages.

* Since man-pages-2.69, each man page now includes a COLOPHON section at the end of the page which indicates the version of man-pages in which this page is released, and also contains a pointer to the man-pages web site.

Back to the program as usual...

The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:

man-pages-2.71.tar.gz - man pages for Linux

This release is now available for download at:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages

(Note the s/manpages/man-pages/ in these paths; a symlink with the old path will exist for a limited time.)

You are receiving this message either because:

a) You contributed to the content of this release.

b) You are subscribed to [email protected] (*).

c) I have information (possibly inaccurate) that you are the maintainer of a translation of the manual pages, or are the maintainer of the manual pages set in a particular distribution, or have expressed interest in helping with man-pages maintenance, or have otherwise expressed interest in being notified about man-pages releases. If you don't want to receive such messages from me, or you know of some other translator or maintainer who may want to receive such notifications, send me a message.

Cheers,

Michael
(man-pages maintenance is supported by Google, as a Google engineer 20% project.)

(*) [email protected] is the man pages discussion list. Subscribe by sending a message to [email protected], with the body:

subscribe linux-man

==================== Changes in man-pages-2.71 ====================

Released: 2007-12-17

Contributors
------------

The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release:

Alain PORTAL <[email protected]> John Sigler <[email protected]>
Josh Triplett <[email protected]> Mats Wichmann <[email protected]> Pascal MALAISE <[email protected]>
Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]>

Apologies if I missed anyone!

Global changes
--------------

err.3
fts.3
getloadavg.3
queue.3
rcmd.3
rexec.3
stdin.3
elf.5
operator.7
mtk
Replaced the use of mdoc macros on these pagess with man macros. The only pages in man-pages that still use mdoc macros are mdoc.7 and mdoc.samples.7.

Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.

Deleted pages
-------------

TODO
mtk
This information is now on the website.

Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

Changes.old
mtk
Reformat various change log entries to use a consistent format. Expand Debian bug report numbers to be URLs.
Other minor tidy-ups.

fcntl.2
mtk
Document the F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC operation, which is new in kernel 2.6.24.

listen.2
Josh Triplett
Fix incorrect path for somaxconn.

getpw.3
Alain PORTAL
Add ENOENT error to ERRORS.

sysconf.3
Mats Wichmann
Add documentation of _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN.

tty.4
John Sigler
Add tty_ioctl(4) to SEE ALSO list.

regex.7
Pascal MALAISE <[email protected]>
Separate text on back regerences from that describing basic regexps, as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379829.
mtk
Remove crufty text about word boundaries.

Michael Kerrisk
Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Want to report a man-pages bug?  Look here:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html



-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html