man-pages-3.47 is released

I've released man-pages-3.47. The release tarball is available on kernel.org. The browsable online pages can be found on man7.org. The Git repository for man-pages is available on kernel.org.

As well as many small fixes to various pages, the major changes in man-pages-3.47 are as follows:

• A new perf_event_open(2) by Vincent Weaver documents the system call of the same name.
• A new pthread_setname_np(3) page documents the pthread_setname_np() and pthread_getname_np() library functions.
• A new sln(8) page document the sln command provided by glibc.
• Several Red Hat downstream patches were merged.
• Various section 2 pages add SEE ALSO entries that refer to related commands in the util-linux package.

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man-pages-3.46 is released

I've released man-pages-3.46. The release tarball is available on kernel.org. The browsable online pages can be found on man7.org. The Git repository for man-pages is available on kernel.org.

Aside from many small fixes to a wide range of pages, the main changes in man-pages-3.46 are as follows:

• A new kcmp(2) by Cyrill Gorcunov documents the system call of the same name.
• The init_module(2) page adds documentation of the finit_module() system call that was added in Linux 3.8.
• The prctl(2) pages adds documentation for the PR_SET_PTRACER and PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS commands.

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