man-pages-4.06 is released

Gidday,

The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:

man-pages-4.06 - man pages for Linux

This release includes input and contributions from around 20 people. Around 40 pages saw changes, ranging from typo fixes through to page rewrites and newly created pages.

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_4.06

A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2016/05/man-pages-406-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 of interest to readers on LKML is shown below.

Cheers,

Michael

==================== Changes in man-pages-4.06 ====================

New and rewritten pages
-----------------------

cgroups.7
Serge Hallyn, Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting cgroups

cgroup_namespaces.7
Michael Kerrisk [Serge Hallyn]
New page describing cgroup namespaces

Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------

clone.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document CLONE_NEWCGROUP

readv.2
Christoph Hellwig
Document preadv2() and pwritev2()

setns.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document CLONE_NEWCGROUP

unshare.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document CLONE_NEWCGROUP

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

clock_getres.2
Michael Kerrisk [Rasmus Villemoes]
Note that coarse clocks need architecture and VDSO support

execve.2
Michael Kerrisk [Valery Reznic]
Since Linux 2.6.28, recursive script interpretation is supported

fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that mandatory locking is now governed by a configuration option

mount.2
Michael Kerrisk
MS_MANDLOCK requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN (since Linux 4.5)

quotactl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document Q_GETNEXTQUOTA and Q_XGETNEXTQUOTA

sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document SEGV_BNDERR
Michael Kerrisk
Document SEGV_PKUERR

core.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/kernel/core_pipe_limit

namespaces.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add cgroups(7), cgroup_namespaces(7)

vdso.7
Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel [Mike Frysinger]
Update for MIPS
Document the symbols exported by the MIPS VDSO. VDSO support was added from kernel 4.4 onwards.

See https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/arch/mips/vdso
Michael Kerrisk [Rasmus Villemoes]
The __kernel_clock_* interfaces don't support *_COARSE clocks on PowerPC

ld.so.8
Michael Kerrisk [Alon Bar-Lev]
Document use of $ORIGIN, $LIB, and $PLATFORM in environment variables
These strings are meaningful in LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD.

Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/