Sunday, April 20, 2014

man-pages-3.65 is released

I've released man-pages-3.65. 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 a number of minor improvements and fixes to various pages, the notable changes in man-pages-3.65 are the following:

  • A new inet_net_pton(3) page describes the inet_net_pton() and inet_net_ntop() library functions.
  • The fallocate(2) page adds documentation for the FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE operation added in Linux 3.15.
  • The prctl(2) page adds documentation of the PR_SET_THP_DISABLE and PR_GET_THP_DISABLE operations added in Linux 3.15.
  • Peng Haitao continued the task of adding thread-safety information to various man pages.

Sunday, April 6, 2014

man-pages-3.64 is released

I've released man-pages-3.64. 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 a number of minor improvements and fixes to various pages, the notable changes in man-pages-3.64 are the following:

  • I've written a new open_by_name_at(2) page that documents the name_to_handle_at() and open_by_handle_at() system calls that were added to Linux in version 2.6.39.
  • I've made substantial updates to the inotify(7) man page to document some of the limitations, complexities, and pitfalls of the inotify API.