Gidday,
The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-3.74 - 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_3.74
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/10/man-pages-374-is-released.html
The current version of the pages is browsable at:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
A few changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of
this list are given below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.74 ====================
Released: 2014-10-03, Munich
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
pldd.1
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pldd(1) command added to glibc in version 2.15
cp1252.7
Marko Myllynen
New page documenting CP 1252
CP 1252 is probably one of the most used Windows Code Pages so
let's add a page for it alongside with the already provided
CP 1251 page.
Table generated from /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/CP1252.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
mq_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msgsize_default
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msg_default
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fanotify_init.2
Heinrich Schuchardt
BUGS: O_CLOEXEC is ignored
Michael Kerrisk [Heinrich Schuchardt]
The 'event_f_flags' failure to check invalid flags was fixed in 3.15
fanotify_mark.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that various bugs were fixed in Linux 3.16
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk [Doug Ledford]
Since Linux 3.5, the accounting formula for RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE has changed
shmget.2
Manfred Spraul [Michael Kerrisk, Davidlohr Bueso]
Update for increase of SHMALL and SHMMAX
The default values of SHMALL and SHMMAX have been increased.
proc.5
Elie De Brauwer
Document /proc/buddyinfo
This patch adds a short description about the contents of
/proc/buddyinfo and how this file can be used to assist
in checking for memory fragmentation issues.
mq_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Update queues_max details for Linux 3.14
And in general rework the text a little.
Michael Kerrisk
Update discussion of HARD_MSGMAX
The limit has changed in 2.6.33 and then again in 3.5.
Michael Kerrisk [Arto Bendiken]
Update details for 'queues_max' limit
Things changed in Linux 3.5.
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1155695
Michael Kerrisk
Update details on defaults and ceiling for 'msgsize_max' limit
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Michael Kerrisk
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Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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