man-pages-3.75 released
Gidday,
The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-3.75 - 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_3.75
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/10/man-pages-375-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-3.75 ====================
Released: 2014-10-15, Düsseldorf
Contributors
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The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been incorporated in changes in this release:
Jonny Grant <[email protected]>
Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> Robert Schweikert <rjschwei-IBi9RG/[email protected]>
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel-1yMVhJb1mP/[email protected]> Walter Harms <[email protected]>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
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pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np.3
Robert Schweikert [Michael Kerrisk]
New page documenting pthread_rwlockattr_[sg]etkind_np(3)
Documents pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np(3) and pthread_rwlockattr_getkind_np(3).
New and changed links
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pthread_rwlockattr_getkind_np.3
Robert Schweikert
New link to pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np(3)
Changes to individual pages
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readlink.2
Michael Kerrisk [Jonny Grant]
Add free() call to example program
readv.2
Michael Kerrisk
The raw preadv() and pwritev() syscalls split 'offset' into 2 arguments
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
pthread_mutex_lock() and pthread_cond_wait() are restartable
pthread_mutex_lock(, pthread_cond_wait(), and related APIs are automatically restarted if interrupted by a signal handler.
unix.7
Michael Kerrisk [Carlos O'Donell, David Miller, Tetsuo Handa]
Various additions and rewordings
Notable changes:
* Clarify some details for pathname sockets.
* Add some advice on portably coding with pathname sockets.
* Note the "buggy" behavior for pathname sockets when the supplied pathname is 108 bytes (after a report by Tetsuo Handa).
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