man-pages-6.01 released

man-pages-6.01 released

[Alejandro Colomar]

Gidday!

I'm proud to announce:

     man-pages-6.01 - manual pages for GNU/Linux

This release results from patches, bug reports, reviews, and comments
from around 16 contributors.  The release includes around 14 commits,
and changed all of the pages.

Tarball download:
     <https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/>
Git repository:
     <https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/>

The most notable changes in man-pages-6.01 are the following:

- Build system fixes.  These were quite bad for distributors, which is
   the reason we released 6.01 so soon after 6.00.

- Document EOF, FAN_MARK_IGNORE, STATX_DIOALIGN, and a few feature
   test macros.

Thank you all for contributing.


Cheers,

Alex

==================== Changes in man-pages-6.01 ====================

Released: 2022-10-18, Aldaya


Contributors
------------

The following people contributed patches/fixes, reports, notes,
ideas, and discussions that have been incorporated in changes in
this release:

"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Agostino Sarubbo <ago@gentoo.org>
Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Grigoriy <grigoriyremvar@protonmail.com>
Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Matthew Bobrowski <repnop@google.com>
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
Nicolás A. Ortega Froysa <nicolas@ortegas.org>
Pierre Labastie <pierre.labastie@neuf.fr>
Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
Steve Izma <sizma@golden.net>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


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

EOF.3const


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

fanotify_mark.2
	FAN_MARK_IGNORE

open.2, statx.2
	STATX_DIOALIGN

feature_test_macros.7
	_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3
	_TIME_BITS


Global changes
--------------

- Build system:

   - Update manual page dates (TH 3rd argument) when creating the tarball
     with 'make dist'.  this removes the need for a tstamp commit before
     each release.

   - Don't print spurious errors from the Makefile that are not relevant.

- Manual pages' sections:

   - Title (.TH):

     - Remove the hardcoded date (TH 3rd argument), and replace it by a
       placeholder that should be changed when creating the tarball.
       This removes the need for a tstamp commit before each release.


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

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, use git(1).


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