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/2015/09/man-pages-379-is-released.html
A selection of changes in this release that may be interesting
for readers of this list is shown below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.79 ====================
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
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().
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
socket.2
Stephan Mueller
document AF_ALG
Add a reference to the AF_ALG protocol accessible via socket(2).
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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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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