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man-pages-3.31 is released

From:  Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To:  lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject:  man-pages-3.31 is released
Date:  Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:45:48 +0100
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimp=Had3h7j5sWq_4cPwR5aejeniqtSAXat7zV9@mail.gmail.com>
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Gidday,

I've released man-pages-3.31.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

The man-pages git repository is here:

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/2010/11/man-pages-331...
) and the current version of the pages is browsable at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
A few changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of this
list are listed below.

Cheers,

Michael

==================== Changes in man-pages-3.31 ====================

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

getrlimit.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Added documentation of prlimit()
            prlimit() is new in kernel 2.6.36.

inotify.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        Document IN_EXCL_UNLINK
            This flag was added in Linux 2.6.36.
            See kernel commit 8c1934c8d70b22ca8333b216aec6c7d09fdbd6a6.

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

kexec_load.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add kernel version where KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT first appeared
        Added kernel version number where KEXEC_ON_CRASH first appeared
        Fix copyright
            Make copyright in the name of Intel corporation
        VERSIONS: Fix version number
            kexec_load() was first implemented in 2.6.13, though the entry
            in the system call table was reserved starting in 2.6.7.


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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