man-pages-3.79 released
Gidday,
The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-3.79 - 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_3.79
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/02/man-pages-379-is-released.html
The current version of the pages is browsable at:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.79 ====================
Released: 2015-02-01, Munich
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:
Akihiro Motoki <[email protected]> Heinrich Schuchardt <[email protected]> J William Piggott <[email protected]> Masanari Iida <[email protected]> Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> Scot Doyle <[email protected]> Sergey V. Zubkov <[email protected]> Stephan Mueller <[email protected]> Vince Weaver <[email protected]> Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
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getrandom.2
Heinrich Schuchardt, Theodore T'so, Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting getrandom(2)
Kernel 3.17 introduces a new system call getrandom(2).
kexec_load.2
Vivek Goyal, Michael Kerrisk
Add documentation of kexec_file_load(2)
Michael Kerrisk, Vivek Goyal
Rewrite and extend documentation of kexec_load().
New and changed links
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kexec_file_load.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to kexec_load.2
Changes to individual pages
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personality.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add setarch(8)
prctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Unused arguments of PR_MPX_(EN,DIS}ABLE_MANAGEMENT must be zero
reboot.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add kexec_load(2)
socket.2
Stephan Mueller
document AF_ALG
Add a reference to the AF_ALG protocol accessible via socket(2).
fflush.3
Michael Kerrisk [Sergey V. Zubkov]
Clarify that flushing of input streams occurs only for seekable files
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91931
Michael Kerrisk [Sergey V. Zubkov]
POSIX.1-2008 specifies the behavior when flushing input streams
POSIX.1-2001 did not have a specification for input streams, but POSIX.1-2008 added one.
getopt.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add getopt(1)
random.3
Heinrich Schuchardt
SEE ALSO: add getrandom(2)
termios.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add reset(1), setterm(1), tput(1)tzset.3
J William Piggott
Document behavior when TZ filespec omits the colon
If the TZ filespec omits the leading colon, glibc will parse it for any valid format, i.e., it will still work.
J William Piggott
Add description for posixrules file
J William Piggott
Correct system timezone file path
J William Piggott
There are only two TZ formats
tzset(3) currently states that there are three TZ formats. The first two it lists are actually variations of the POSIX-style TZ format, of which there are at least five variations.
This patch corrects this to match the POSIX specification of TZ having only two formats.
J William Piggott
Filespec omitted incorrect
Paragraph three of the DESCRIPTION section says that when TZ is set, but empty, then UTC is used.
Later it says if the TZ filespec is omitted then the file /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime is used. This is incorrect, it will use UTC in that case as well.
J William Piggott
Fix incorrect TZ string representation
The TZ string representation indicates that the start/end rules are required; this is incorrect.
J William Piggott
Add ENVIRONMENT section + other rearrangements
FILES section was overly verbose and included environment variables. Added ENVIRONMENT section, removing ENV VARS from the FILES section.
random.4
Heinrich Schuchardt
SEE ALSO: add getrandom(2)
passwd.5
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add chfn(1), chsh(1)capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add setpriv(1)
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add getrandom(2) to list of restartable system calls
Michael Kerrisk
Add F_OFD_SETLKW to list of restartable operations
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