man-pages-4.04 is released

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Gidday,

The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:

    man-pages-4.04 - man pages for Linux

This release includes input and contributions from
more than 30 people.

Tarball download:
    http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html
Git repository:
    https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/
Online changelog:
    http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_4.04

A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/12/man-pages-404-is-released.html

The current version of the pages is browsable at:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/

A selection of changes in this release that may be interesting
for readers of this list is shown below.

Cheers,

Michael

==================== Changes in man-pages-4.04 ====================

New and rewritten pages
-----------------------

futex.2
    Michael Kerrisk, Thomas Gleixner, Torvald Riegel  [Davidlohr Bueso, Heinrich Schuchardt, Darren Hart, Rusty Russell, Pavel Machek, Rich Felker]
        Rewrite and massively expand page

membarrier.2
    Mathieu Desnoyers  [Michael Kerrisk]
        New page documenting membarrier() system call


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

mlock.2
    Eric B Munson  [Michal Hocko, Vlastimil Babka, Michael Kerrisk]
        Document mlock2(2) and MCL_ONFAULT


Global changes
--------------

Various pages
    Michael Kerrisk
        ERRORS: standardize text for EMFILE error

Various pages
    Michael Kerrisk
        ERRORS: standardize error text for ENOTSOCK error

Various pages
    Michael Kerrisk
        ERRORS: standardize text for ENFILE error


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

fork.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Child of MT-process is restricted to async-signal-safe functions

gettimeofday.2
    Carlos O'Donell
        Expand on the historical meaning of tz_dsttime

socketcall.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Since Linux 4.3, x86-32 provides direct system calls for the sockets API

time.2
    Zack Weinberg
        Explain why the glibc time() wrapper never sets 'errno'
    Michael Kerrisk  [H.J. Lu]
        Where time() is provided by vDSO, an invalid address may give SIGSEGV
    Michael Kerrisk  [Paul Eggert]
        Describe EOVERFLOW details
    Michael Kerrisk
        SEE ALSO: add vdso(7)
    Michael Kerrisk
        Rename 't' argument to 'tloc'

proc.5
    Michael Kerrisk
        Reaching /proc/sys/fs/file-max limit normally produces an ENFILE error

vdso.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add note on strace(1) and vDSO

ld.so.8
    H.J. Lu [Michael Kerrisk]
        Document LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
    Michael Kerrisk
        Clarify setting of LD_BIND_NOT
    Michael Kerrisk
        Clarify setting of LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK
    Michael Kerrisk
        Clarify setting of LD_TRACE_PRELINKING
    Michael Kerrisk
        Clarify some details for LD_SHOW_AUXV

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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