Friday, January 23, 2015

man-pages-3.78 is released

I've released man-pages-3.78. 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 smaller fixes and improvements to various pages, the most notable changes in man-pages-3.78 are the following:

  • A new execveat(2) page documents the execveat() system call that was added in Linux 3.19.
  • A new memfd_create(2) page documents the memfd_create() system call that was added in Linux 3.17. This page also provides an overview of the file-sealing API. The file-sealing operations themselves are documented in updates to the fcntl(2) man page.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

man-pages-3.77 is released

I've released man-pages-3.77. 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 smaller fixes and improvements to various pages, the most notable changes in man-pages-3.77 is the following:

  • A new seccomp(2) manual page describes the seccomp() system call that was added in Linux 3.17.

Thursday, January 1, 2015

man-pages-3.76 is released

I've released man-pages-3.76. We've just passed 12k commits in the project, and this release, my 158th,  marks the completion of my tenth year as maintainer of the man-pages project.

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 large number of smaller fixes and improvements to many pages, the most notable changes in man-pages-3.76 are the following:

  • The adjtimex(2) page has been greatly expanded adding many more details on the behavior of the adjtimex() system call (but much further work remains to be done on the page).
  • The sigreturn(2) page has been expanded to include an explanation of why this system call is need, as well as some details of the so-called signal trampoline code.