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tag nameman-pages-6.05 (763df1262086d54c9de67c3343f51d5e904e9870)
tag date2023-08-01 14:39:31 +0200
tagged byAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
tagged objectcommit 475a8e8623...
man-pages-6.05 - manual pages for GNU/Linux
This is the release of man-pages-6.05. The release tarball will soon be avaliable at <kernel.org>. A PDF version of the pages will also be uploaded in the same page. A change from man-pages-6.04 merits a mention in this release, as it wasn't properly documented in the previous release notes: - Add make(1) 'check' target. This has been split from 'lint'. 'lint' will check the source code, and 'check' will check the rendered pages (as a user will read them). There are currently several pages that fail this `make check`, and distributors that depend on this can workaround it by touching a few files: $ make check -k -j >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; $ make check -k 2>/dev/null; GREP .tmp/man/man1/memusage.1.check-catman.touch TROFF .tmp/man/man2/fanotify_init.2.cat.set TROFF .tmp/man/man2/gettimeofday.2.cat.set TROFF .tmp/man/man2/s390_sthyi.2.cat.set GREP .tmp/man/man3/mallopt.3.check-catman.touch TROFF .tmp/man/man3/unlocked_stdio.3.cat.set TROFF .tmp/man/man4/console_codes.4.cat.set TROFF .tmp/man/man4/lirc.4.cat.set GREP .tmp/man/man4/smartpqi.4.check-catman.touch GREP .tmp/man/man4/veth.4.check-catman.touch TROFF .tmp/man/man5/proc.5.cat.set GREP .tmp/man/man5/slabinfo.5.check-catman.touch TROFF .tmp/man/man5/tzfile.5.cat.set TROFF .tmp/man/man7/address_families.7.cat.set TROFF .tmp/man/man7/ascii.7.cat.set TROFF .tmp/man/man7/bpf-helpers.7.cat.set GREP .tmp/man/man7/keyrings.7.check-catman.touch GREP .tmp/man/man7/uri.7.check-catman.touch TROFF .tmp/man/man8/tzselect.8.cat.set TROFF .tmp/man/man8/zdump.8.cat.set TROFF .tmp/man/man8/zic.8.cat.set After touching the previous files, `make check` will succeed: $ make check -k 2>/dev/null | awk '{print $2}' | xargs touch; $ make check -j >/dev/null; $ echo $? 0 The most notable changes in this release (man-pages-6.05) are: New and rewritten pages ----------------------- man2/ ioctl_pipe.2 man3/ regex.3 man5/ erofs.5 Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- bpf.2 EAGAIN ioctl_userfaultfd.2 UFFD_FEATURE_EXACT_ADDRESS prctl.2 PR_GET_AUXV recv.2 MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC statx.2 STAT_ATTR_MOUNT_ROOT syscall.2 ENOSYS resolv.conf.5 no-aaaa RES_NOAAAA tmpfs.5 CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE ip.7 IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE rtnetlink.7 IFLA_PERM_ADDRESS New and changed links --------------------- man3type/ regex_t.3type (regex(3)) regmatch_t.3type (regex(3)) regoff_t.3type (regex(3)) Global changes -------------- - Types: - Document functions using off64_t as if they used off_t (except for lseek64()). - Build system: - Keep file modes in the release tarball. - Fix symlink installation (`make install LINK_PAGES=symlink`). - Add support for using bzip2(1), lzip(1), and xz(1) when installing pages and creating release tarballs. - Create reproducible release tarballs. - Move makefiles from lib/ to share/mk/. - Support mdoc(7) pages. - Relicense Makefiles as GPL-3.0-or-later. - Build PostScript and PDF manual pages. - Add support for running our build system on arbitrary source trees; this makes it possible to easily run our linters on another project's manual pages as easily as `make lint MANDIR=~/src/groff` - Licenses: - Relicense ddp.7 from VERBATIM_ONE_PARA to Linux-man-pages-copyleft. - Relicense dir_colors.5 from LDPv1 to GPL-2.0-or-later. - Use new SPDX license identifiers: - Linux-man-pages-1-para (was VERBATIM_ONE_PARA) - Linux-man-pages-copyleft-2-para (was VERBATIM_TWO_PARA) - Linux-man-pages-copyleft-var (was VERBATIM_PROF) - ffix: - use `\%` - un-bracket tbl(1) tables -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEE6jqH8KTroDDkXfJAnowa+77/2zIFAmTI/okACgkQnowa+77/ 2zLYpA//esjmfdhPOzB0+yr7Y8tcJHaCMLgZcqx4MKWPndVPlJJz8z07LilvTFi/ C8Ykoo14TClhAEgqshh0Jh8I5bPWDcd33IWIBb0eHwuo7GFUkJL/kJJfjkl34Gy8 kQWXannV/or7GJOnHhwXoE+dsj/dn6xdrUbsvxtbWbRoPZBR7A0zsfKm4xrv2D6+ fT0Yv2XjHZxO/0yFnvGoLRJEaE227n/W8Kk3RHrJ5jge07LvI1nedD0iTo5OeNha cJOsQUn3msIh1OBbbroieJflpJ7DlqIjWnVtoIF6anGasHIEtT6Rm5sbPpIbqbFp QnAoOSvr2DJRjtGUhqeKqZfN3T2dGvKMJeIJKkd1unucx2+xkWWfXXK/uQ2G4wIV kWDEsHSiuv2aVyc5zCZqqZ107HAoRVEMsJsTLCg8sMcf6j09OO5Ls4glWQ5e8p7K jsW25vnYsmakK73NGFP8QRUT0dsxdUzmXj+lEOHm0hkW6qIc0pOV4vyE4Yoev7Zj fcpCtvhrF/kq8VMctv3HieJjm5CV0sXdYPXY+N1msVyqbTfQSRU4c6rHTYUohf2i 3Y+3u2vPxnmRDUg78xYY38zavPjyFYhSXOFHjjuryMemACV3KlRnE47gKj7Eb6Hw hc6BkXonOGSEIjBDJYPvOUX3ETWKapfSIbyhhcH18ZmodMMFlTk= =ozxd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----