man-pages-2.40 is released

From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Wed Oct 11 2006 - 05:46:16 EST


Gidday,

I recently released man-pages-2.40.

This release is now available for download at:

ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages

and soon at:

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
or mirrors: ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages

Changes in this release that may be of interest to readers
of this list include the following:

Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

execve.2
mtk
Added list of process attributes that are not preserved on exec().

fork.2
mtk, after a suggestion by Christoph Hellwig
Greatly expanded, to describe all attributes that differ
in parent and child.

linkat.2
mtk
Document AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW (new in 2.6.18).

proc.5
Chuck Ebbert
Document /proc/PID/auxv.

Cheers,

Michael

--
Michael Kerrisk
maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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