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
Changes.old: 6.04: Document the addition of `make check`
This caused trouble to the Debian packaging, since it runs `make check`
if the package supports it, and since we have a few pages that trigger
errors there, the packaging failed to work for 6.04.
Document the workaround.
Reported-by: Marcos Fouces <marcos@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
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