man-pages-6.19 released
From: Alejandro Colomar
Date: Tue Aug 25 2026 - 17:21:01 EST
Gidday!
I'm proud to announce:
man-pages-6.19 - manual pages for GNU+Linux
Tarball download:
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/>
Git repository:
<https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/>
Online PDF book:
<https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/book/>
Thanks to all the contributors to this release (in BCC)!
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==================== NEWS =========================================
One manual page has been removed (see 'Removed pages' in the change log
below).
Also, we've changed the build system to use POSIX's '::=' instead of
GNU's ':='. Our build system is not portable to POSIX make(1), but this
difference was unnecessary and seemed easy to change.
==================== Linux Software Map ===========================
Begin4
Title: Linux man-pages
Version: 6.19
Entered-date: 2026-08-25
Description: Manual pages for GNU+Linux. This package contains
manual pages for sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7, and
subsections of those. Only a few pages are provided in
sections 1, 6, and 8, and none in 9.
Keywords: man pages
Maintained-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Primary-site: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
2.7M man-pages-6.19.tar.gz
Copying-policy: several; the pages are all freely distributable as long as
nroff source is provided
End
==================== Changes in man-pages-6.19 ====================
Released: 2026-08-25, Aldaya
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
man0/
intro.0 (previously, intro(1))
man1/
intro.1 (split into two pages)
man2/
_llseek.2 (previously, llseek(2))
clone2.2 (previously, clone(2))
clone.2 (split into two pages)
exit.2 (previously, _exit(2))
llseek.2 (moved into _llseek(2))
quotactl.2 (split into many pages)
man2const/
Q_GETFMT.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_GETINFO.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_GETNEXTQUOTA.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_GETQUOTA.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_GETSTATS.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_QUOTAOFF.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_QUOTAON.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_SETINFO.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_SETQUOTA.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_SYNC.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_XGETNEXTQUOTA.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_XGETQSTAT.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_XGETQSTATV.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_XGETQUOTA.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_XQUOTAOFF.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_XQUOTAON.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_XQUOTARM.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_XQUOTASYNC.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
Q_XSETQLIM.2const (previously, quotactl(2))
UFFDIO_RWPROTECT.2const
UFFDIO_SET_MODE.2const
man2type/
dqblk.2type (previously, quotactl(2))
dqinfo.2type (previously, quotactl(2))
fs_disk_quota.2type (previously, quotactl(2))
man3/
_exit.3 (previously, _exit(2)
bstring.3 (now link to memory.h(3head))
cfmakeraw.3 (previously, termios(3))
cfsetspeed.3 (previously, termios(3))
bzero.3 (split into two pages)
explicit_bzero.3 (previously, bzero(3))
fgetc.3 (split into two pages)
fgets.3 (previously, fgetc(3))
llseek.3 (previously, lseek64(3))
lseek64.3 (split into two pages)
memchr.3 (split into two pages)
mempcpy.3 (split into two pages)
memset_explicit.3
memrchr.3 (previously, memchr(3))
stpncpy.3 (split into two pages)
strcasecmp.3 (split into two pages)
strcasestr.3 (previously, strstr(3))
strchr.3 (split into two pages)
strcmp.3 (split into two pages)
strdup.3 (split into two pages)
strdupa.3 (split into two pages)
string.3
strncasecmp.3 (previously, strcasecmp(3))
strncmp.3 (previously, strcmp(3))
strncpy.3 (previously, stpncpy(3))
strndup.3 (previously, strdupa(3))
strndupa.3 (previously, strdupa(3))
strlcpy.3
strrchr.3 (previously, strchr(3))
strstr.3 (split into two pages)
tcdrain.3 (previously, termios(3))
tcflow.3 (previously, termios(3))
tcflush.3 (previously, termios(3))
tcsendbreak.3 (previously, termios(3))
tcsetattr.3 (previously, termios(3))
termios.3 (split into many pages)
wmempcpy.3 (previously, mempcpy(3))
man3head/
memory.h.3head
man3type/
termios.3type (previously, termios(3))
man5/
ld.so.conf.5
tunables.conf.5
man7/
termios.7
man9/
strscpy.9
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
man2/
openat2.2
OPENAT2_REGULAR
seccomp.2
SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_TSYNC_ESRCH
SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_WAIT_KILLABLE_RECV
userfaultfd.2
UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP
UFFD_PAGEFAULT_FLAG_RWP
man2const/
F_GET_SEALS.2const
F_SEAL_EXEC
UFFDIO_API.2const
UFFD_FEATURE_RWP
UFFD_FEATURE_RWP_ASYNC
_UFFDIO_SET_MODE
UFFDIO_REGISTER.2const
UFFDIO_REGISTER_MODE_RWP
_UFFDIO_RWPROTECT
man4/
console_codes.4
Several xterm(1) codes.
man5/
proc_pid_fdinfo.5
int
man7/
suffixes.7
.xz
.zst
man8/
ldconfig.8
-t
/etc/tunables.conf
New and changed links
---------------------
man2/
__clone2.2 (clone2(2))
llseek.2 (_llseek(2))
man3/
_Exit.3 (_exit(3))
bstring.3 (memory(h.3head))
cfgetispeed.3 (cfsetspeed(3))
cfgetospeed.3 (cfsetspeed(3))
cfsetispeed.3 (cfsetspeed(3))
cfsetospeed.3 (cfsetspeed(3))
strlcat.3 (strlcpy(3))
tcgetattr.3 (tcsetattr(3))
Removed pages
-------------
man2/
_exit.2 (moved+split into two pages)
Removed links
-------------
Global changes
--------------
- share/mk/
- Use POSIX.1-2008's '::=' instead of GNU's ':='.
- The <string.h>- and <memory.h>-related manual pages have been
significantly rewritten.
Changes to individual files
---------------------------
The manual pages and other files in the repository have been improved
beyond what this changelog covers. To learn more about changes applied
to individual pages, or the authors of changes, use git(1).
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