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Gidday!

I'm proud to announce:

man-pages-6.19 - manual pages for GNU+Linux

Tarball download:
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/>
Git repository:
<https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/>
Online PDF book:
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/book/>

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==================== NEWS =========================================

One manual page has been removed (see 'Removed pages' in the change log below).

Also, we've changed the build system to use POSIX's '::=' instead of GNU's ':='. Our build system is not portable to POSIX make(1), but this difference was unnecessary and seemed easy to change.

==================== Linux Software Map ===========================

Begin4

Title:          Linux man-pages
Version:        6.19
Entered-date:   2026-08-25
Description:    Manual pages for GNU+Linux.  This package contains
                manual pages for sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7, and
                subsections of those.  Only a few pages are provided in
                sections 1, 6, and 8, and none in 9.
Keywords:       man pages
Maintained-by:  Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>
Primary-site:   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
                2.7M  man-pages-6.19.tar.gz

Copying-policy: several; the pages are all freely distributable as long as
nroff source is provided
End

==================== Changes in man-pages-6.19 ====================

Released: 2026-08-25, Aldaya

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

man0/

	intro.0					(previously, intro(1))

man1/

	intro.1					(split into two pages)

man2/

	_llseek.2				(previously, llseek(2))
	clone2.2				(previously, clone(2))
	clone.2					(split into two pages)
	exit.2					(previously, _exit(2))
	llseek.2				(moved into _llseek(2))
	quotactl.2				(split into many pages)

man2const/

	Q_GETFMT.2const				(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_GETINFO.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_GETNEXTQUOTA.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_GETQUOTA.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_GETSTATS.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_QUOTAOFF.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_QUOTAON.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_SETINFO.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_SETQUOTA.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_SYNC.2const				(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_XGETNEXTQUOTA.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_XGETQSTAT.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_XGETQSTATV.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_XGETQUOTA.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_XQUOTAOFF.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_XQUOTAON.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_XQUOTARM.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_XQUOTASYNC.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	Q_XSETQLIM.2const			(previously, quotactl(2))
	UFFDIO_RWPROTECT.2const
	UFFDIO_SET_MODE.2const

man2type/

	dqblk.2type				(previously, quotactl(2))
	dqinfo.2type				(previously, quotactl(2))
	fs_disk_quota.2type			(previously, quotactl(2))

man3/

	_exit.3					(previously, _exit(2)
	bstring.3				(now link to memory.h(3head))
	cfmakeraw.3				(previously, termios(3))
	cfsetspeed.3				(previously, termios(3))
	bzero.3					(split into two pages)
	explicit_bzero.3			(previously, bzero(3))
	fgetc.3					(split into two pages)
	fgets.3					(previously, fgetc(3))
	llseek.3				(previously, lseek64(3))
	lseek64.3				(split into two pages)
	memchr.3				(split into two pages)
	mempcpy.3				(split into two pages)
	memset_explicit.3
	memrchr.3				(previously, memchr(3))
	stpncpy.3				(split into two pages)
	strcasecmp.3				(split into two pages)
	strcasestr.3				(previously, strstr(3))
	strchr.3				(split into two pages)
	strcmp.3				(split into two pages)
	strdup.3				(split into two pages)
	strdupa.3				(split into two pages)
	string.3
	strncasecmp.3				(previously, strcasecmp(3))
	strncmp.3				(previously, strcmp(3))
	strncpy.3				(previously, stpncpy(3))
	strndup.3				(previously, strdupa(3))
	strndupa.3				(previously, strdupa(3))
	strlcpy.3
	strrchr.3				(previously, strchr(3))
	strstr.3				(split into two pages)
	tcdrain.3				(previously, termios(3))
	tcflow.3				(previously, termios(3))
	tcflush.3				(previously, termios(3))
	tcsendbreak.3				(previously, termios(3))
	tcsetattr.3				(previously, termios(3))
	termios.3				(split into many pages)
	wmempcpy.3				(previously, mempcpy(3))

man3head/
memory.h.3head

man3type/

	termios.3type				(previously, termios(3))

man5/

	ld.so.conf.5
	tunables.conf.5

man7/
termios.7

man9/
strscpy.9

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

man2/

	openat2.2
		OPENAT2_REGULAR
	seccomp.2
		SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC_ESRCH
		SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_WAIT_KILLABLE_RECV
	userfaultfd.2
		UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP
		UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_RWP

man2const/
F_GET_SEALS.2const
F_SEAL_EXEC
UFFDIO_API.2const
UFFD_FEATURE_RWP
UFFD_FEATURE_RWP_ASYNC
_UFFDIO_SET_MODE
UFFDIO_REGISTER.2const
UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP
_UFFDIO_RWPROTECT

man4/
console_codes.4
Several xterm(1) codes.

man5/
proc_pid_fdinfo.5
int

man7/

	suffixes.7
		.xz
		.zst

man8/

	ldconfig.8
		-t
		/etc/tunables.conf

New and changed links
---------------------

man2/

	__clone2.2				(clone2(2))
	llseek.2				(_llseek(2))

man3/

	_Exit.3					(_exit(3))
	bstring.3				(memory(h.3head))
	cfgetispeed.3				(cfsetspeed(3))
	cfgetospeed.3				(cfsetspeed(3))
	cfsetispeed.3				(cfsetspeed(3))
	cfsetospeed.3				(cfsetspeed(3))
	strlcat.3				(strlcpy(3))
	tcgetattr.3				(tcsetattr(3))

Removed pages
-------------

man2/

	_exit.2					(moved+split into two pages)

Removed links
-------------

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

- share/mk/
- Use POSIX.1-2008's '::=' instead of GNU's ':='.
- The <string.h>- and <memory.h>-related manual pages have been significantly rewritten.

Changes to individual files
---------------------------

The manual pages and other files in the repository have been improved beyond what this changelog covers. To learn more about changes applied to individual pages, or the authors of changes, use git(1).

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