man-pages-3.31 is released

From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Sun Nov 14 2010 - 10:46:18 EST


Gidday,

I've released man-pages-3.31.tar.gz - man pages for Linux

This release is now available for download at:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages

The man-pages git repository is here:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git

The online changelog is available at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html (blogged at
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2010/11/man-pages-331-is-released.html
) and the current version of the pages is browsable at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
A few changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of this
list are listed below.

Cheers,

Michael

==================== Changes in man-pages-3.31 ====================

Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------

getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Added documentation of prlimit()
prlimit() is new in kernel 2.6.36.

inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document IN_EXCL_UNLINK
This flag was added in Linux 2.6.36.
See kernel commit 8c1934c8d70b22ca8333b216aec6c7d09fdbd6a6.

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

kexec_load.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel version where KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT first appeared
Added kernel version number where KEXEC_ON_CRASH first appeared
Fix copyright
Make copyright in the name of Intel corporation
VERSIONS: Fix version number
kexec_load() was first implemented in 2.6.13, though the entry
in the system call table was reserved starting in 2.6.7.


--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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