man-pages-3.17 is released

From: Michael Kerrisk
Date: Wed Jan 21 2009 - 07:25:57 EST


Gidday,

I've released man-pages-3.16.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

man-pages nowadays also has a public git repository at

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/2009/01/man-pages-317-is-released.html)
and the current version of the pages is browsable at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
An abridged list of changes that may be of interest to readers of this
list is given below.

Cheers,

Michael

==================== Changes in man-pages-3.17 ====================

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

endian.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting byte order conversion functions
Document functions (new in glibc 2.9) for conversion between
host byte order and big-/little- endian byte order:
htobe16(), htole16(), be16toh(), le16toh(),
htobe32(), htole32(), be32toh(), le32toh(),
htobe64(), htole64(), be64toh(), le64toh()

getifaddrs.3
Petr Baudis
New page documenting getifaddrs(3) and freeifaddrs(3)
Many edits and changes of Petr's initial draft by mtk

cp1251.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting CP 1251 (Windows Cyrillic) character set

iso-8859-10.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-10 character set

iso_8859-13.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-13 character set

iso_8859-14.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-14 character set

iso_8859-3.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-3 character set

iso_8859-5.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-5 character set

iso_8859-8.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-8 character set

koi8-u.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting KOI8-U character set


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

epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc interfaces for limiting kernel memory usage
Document the following /proc files that were added in
Linux 2.6.28:
/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances
/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches

netdevice.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document recently added interface flags
IFF_LOWER_UP (since Linux 2.6.17)
IFF_DORMANT (since Linux 2.6.17)
IFF_ECHO (since Linux 2.6.25)

Documentation taken from comments in <linux/if.h>


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