man-pages-2.76 is released

man-pages-2.76 is released

[Michael Kerrisk]

Gidday

I've released man-pages-2.76.

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

Changes in this release can be seen at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html#release_2.76
A summary of the changes in this release that may be of interest to readers
of this list is provided below.

Cheers,

Michael


==================== Changes in man-pages-2.76 ====================

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

dup.2
    mtk
        Reordered text in DESCRIPTION and added some details for dup2().

gettid.2
    mtk
        Rewrote DESCRIPTION; noted that thread ID is not the same
        thing as a POSIX thread ID.

pipe.2
    mtk
        Rewrote DESCRIPTION; minor additions to EXAMPLE text.

umask.2
    mtk
        A few rewrites and additions.

random.4
    mtk, after a report by Daniel Kahn Gilmor
        Add 2.6 details for /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize.
        as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459232.

-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Want to report a man-pages bug?  Look here:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html