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* man-pages-3.58 is released
@ 2014-02-14 15:17 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
  2014-02-14 16:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
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From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) @ 2014-02-14 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: lkml; +Cc: mtk.manpages

Gidday,

I've released man-pages-3.58 - man pages for Linux.

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_3.58

A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/02/man-pages-359-is-released.html

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

A few changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of
this list are given below.

Cheers,

Michael


==================== Changes in man-pages-3.58 ====================

Released: 2014-02-11, Munich


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

pipe.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Document the pipe2() O_DIRECT flag added in Linux 3.4

packet.7
    Daniel Borkmann
        Document PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS
            New in Linux 3.14.



-- 
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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* Re: man-pages-3.58 is released
  2014-02-14 15:17 man-pages-3.58 is released Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
@ 2014-02-14 16:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
  2014-02-15 10:10   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2014-02-14 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages); +Cc: lkml

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:17:52PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> pipe.2
>     Michael Kerrisk
>         Document the pipe2() O_DIRECT flag added in Linux 3.4

Eww, reusing O_DIRECT for some totally different semantics is nasty.
Did this go by linux-man back in the day?


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* Re: man-pages-3.58 is released
  2014-02-14 16:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
@ 2014-02-15 10:10   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) @ 2014-02-15 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Christoph Hellwig; +Cc: lkml

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:17:52PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> pipe.2
>>     Michael Kerrisk
>>         Document the pipe2() O_DIRECT flag added in Linux 3.4
>
> Eww, reusing O_DIRECT for some totally different semantics is nasty.
> Did this go by linux-man back in the day?

(I suspect you meant linux-api@)

Nope. I happened to discover the new flag by accident while grepping
the sources.

Cheers,

Michael



-- 
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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