man-pages-2.54 is released

From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Fri Jun 08 2007 - 08:50:39 EST


Gidday,

I just released man-pages-2.54

This release is now available for download at:

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

and soon at:

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

This release includes a new page, man-pages.7, that describes the
conventions that should be used when writing pages for man-pages. A few
other changes that may be of interest to readers of this list are are noted
below.

Cheers,

Michael


==================== Changes in man-pages-2.54 ====================

New pages
---------

man-pages.7
mtk
A description of the conventions that should be followed
when writing pages for the man-pages package.

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

fcntl.2
mtk
Remove misleading text about setting O_ASYNC when calling
open(); one must use fcntl() F_SETFL for this task.

fdatasync.2
mtk
Converted outdated BUGS note about fdatasync() being
equivalent to fsync() on Linux 2.2 into a NOTES note
about this historical behaviour.

mprotect.2
mtk, after an observation by Emmanuel Mogenet
A much improved example program.
mtk
Significant rewrites and additions to description.

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

Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/
read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'.
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