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