man-pages-2.77 is released

From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 08:13:59 EST


Gidday

Some news: the man-pages web site at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
now includes a (Google-based) search facility for searching the pages that
are online there.

I've released man-pages-2.77.

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

A full list of the changes in this release can be seen at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html
A summary of the changes in this release that may be of interest to readers
of this list is provided below.

Cheers,

Michael

==================== Changes in man-pages-2.77 ====================


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

wait.2
Phil Endecott
Clarify description of return value for WNOHANG.

tkill.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by
tgkill().

alloca.3
mtk
Various rewrites and additions (including notes on longjmp() and
SIGSEGV).
mtk / Vincent Lefevre
Weaken warning against use of alloca(), and
point out some cases where it can be useful;
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461100.


--
Michael Kerrisk
Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html

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