* Updated: man-pages-linux 6.8
@ 2024-05-21 22:06 Cygwin Linux Man Pages Maintainer
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The following package has been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
* man-pages-linux 6.8
Documents the Linux kernel system calls and C library interfaces used
by programs, plus system and administrative utilities, devices, file
system, file, and data formats, and related information.
For more information, see the project home page:
https://kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
As Cygwin has its own man pages with some conflicts, these man pages are
installed under /usr/share/man/man-pages-linux/, so by default searching
or viewing these pages requires the option:
$ apropos -m|--systems man-pages-linux ...
$ man -m|--systems man-pages-linux ...
Cygwin man pages are under the default system "man", so for convenience
both systems may be specified separated by comma e.g.
$ man -m man,man-pages-linux ...
The path or option may also be added explicitly to a users MANPATH or
alias e.g.
$ export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/share/man/man-pages-linux
$ alias apropos='apropos -m man,man-pages-linux'
$ alias man='man -m man,man-pages-linux'
Add -a to show both Cygwin and Linux (and POSIX if companion package
man-pages-posix is also installed) manual pages.
For convenience and backward compatibility /usr/share/man/linux is
provided as a symlink.
If you prefer to see Linux man pages over Cygwin man pages, then use
-m|--systems linux in the examples above, or add -m linux to a command.
Release 6 added some section 2 and 3 pages suffixed by const, head,
or type installed in the base section directories.
For recent changes, please see below, or after installation read
/usr/share/doc/man-pages-linux/Changes:
2024-05-19 6.8
New and rewritten pages
man3type/
locale_t.3type
mbstate_t.3type
wchar_t.3type
wint_t.3type
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
man2/
init_module.2
MODULE_INIT_COMPRESS_FILE
get_mempolicy.2
mbind.2
set_mempolicy.2
MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE
mount_setattr.2
squashfs
tmpfs
cephfs
hugetlbfs
man5/
man8/
proc.5
subset
elf.5
ld.so.8
Updeprecate and explain DT_RPATH
man7/
string_copying.7
strndup()
New and changed links
man3/
S_ISBLK.3 (inode(7))
S_ISCHR.3 (inode(7))
S_ISDIR.3 (inode(7))
S_ISFIFO.3 (inode(7))
S_ISLNK.3 (inode(7))
S_ISREG.3 (inode(7))
S_ISSOCK.3 (inode(7))
pthread_cond_broadcast.3 (pthread_cond_init(3))
pthread_cond_destroy.3 (pthread_cond_init(3))
pthread_cond_signal.3 (pthread_cond_init(3))
pthread_cond_timedwait.3 (pthread_cond_init(3))
pthread_cond_wait.3 (pthread_cond_init(3))
pthread_condattr_destroy.3 (pthread_condattr_init(3))
pthread_getspecific.3 (pthread_key_create(3))
pthread_key_delete.3 (pthread_key_create(3))
pthread_mutex_destroy.3 (pthread_mutex_init(3))
pthread_mutex_lock.3 (pthread_mutex_init(3))
pthread_mutex_trylock.3 (pthread_mutex_init(3))
pthread_mutex_unlock.3 (pthread_mutex_init(3))
pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np.3 (pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np(3))
pthread_mutexattr_gettype.3 (pthread_mutexattr_init(3))
pthread_mutexattr_settype.3 (pthread_mutexattr_init(3))
pthread_setspecific.3 (pthread_key_create(3))
Global changes
- Build system
! Stamp the versions on the pages at install time, instead of dist
time. This change is important, because downstream packagers will
need to `make install` instead of just copying the pages.
The benefit of this is that downstream distributors are now able
to set their own distro-specific version strings. The most common
thing that I'd expect is setting a suffix such as '-1', which can
be done with `make install EXTRAVERSION=-1`.
Another benefit is that downstream patches that apply near the
TH line will have to be refreshed less often, since the TH line
will not necessarily change in every release.
- Reorganize build system
- Improve support for Darwin systems.
- Remove any generated files (fonts) from the repository, and
generate them at build time.
- Various improvements to the generation of the PDF book.
- man
- Move manual pages to a new directory man/, so that they are now
under man/man*/. Symlinks have been added for convenience.
- git
- Import pthread_*.3 link pages' git history from debian/glibc.git
- CONTRIBUTING.d
- Add help for using git-config(1), git-send-email(1),
git-range-diff(1), and [neo]mutt(1).
Changes to individual files
The manual pages and other files in the repository have been improved
beyond what this changelog covers. To learn more about changes applied
to individual pages, or the authors of changes, use git(1).
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