man-pages-3.50 is released

I've released man-pages-3.50. 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.

This is a relatively small release; the notable changes in man-pages-3.50 are as follows:

• I've rewritten the canonicalize_file_name(3) manual page, adding quite a bit more detail.
• I've updated and added several details to what was a rather outdated ioperm(2) manual page.
• The syscalls(2) page now includes the kernel version in which all system calls were added.
• Elie de Brauwer added descriptions for various ioctl() interfaces for /dev/random in the random(4) page.

man-pages-3.49 is released

I've released man-pages-3.49. 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.

There are no content changes in this release: it consists purely of changes to comments inside the source of every manual page, in order to arrange the copyright and license sections into a standard order. The intent is to make it easier for scripts to parse the manual page sources to obtain the copyright and license of a page. For more details, see the changelog.

man-pages-3.48 is released

I've released man-pages-3.48. 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-3.48 are as follows:

• A new getunwind(2) manual page, written by Marcela Maslanova, documents the IA-64-specific system call of the same name. This page, as well as all of the other new pages in this release, come from the Red Hat downstream man pages project.
• A new perfmonctl(2) page, written by Ivana Varekova, documents the IA-64-specific system call of the same name.
• Two new pages by Ulrich Drepper, gai.conf(5) and nss(5), document configuration files of the same name.
• The clock_getres(2) page adds descriptions of the new clocks CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, and CLOCK_BOOT_TIME. Thanks to Cyril Hrubis.
• The ptrace(2) page adds descriptions pf the new commands PTRACE_GETREGSET, PTRACE_SETREGSET, and PTRACE_SEIZE. Thanks to Denys Vlasenko.

HTML man-pages on kernel.org now redirect to man7.org

While things were repaired following the 2011 kernel.org break in, it ceased to be possible to update the HTML man pages renderings that I have for a few years maintained there. So I started placing updated renderings on my own domain, man7.org. Even after the kernel.org infrastructure was fully restored, it was still somewhat cumbersome to update 2000+ HTML pages at that location, so I subsequently continued to update the renderings at only man7.org.

Notwithstanding the fact that they are now significantly out of date, the kernel.org renderings have continued to see a lot of traffic. For that reason, I've asked the kernel.org admins to set redirects from the URLs on kernel.org to equivalent URLs on man7.org. All old links should just work; please let me know if there are any breakages.