The Linux Documentation Project proudly announces. . .
man-pages-1.4.tar.gz - section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 man pages for Linux
Differences from version 1.3:
I finally went through all my mail (since October 1993) and updated the
man pages with all the corrections and updates that folks sent to me.
If you think you sent me an update, and it didn't get into 1.4, please
send it again. The following files, at least, have been updated:
access.2 adjtimex.2 bdflush.2 brk.2 chroot.2 clone.2 dup.2 execve.2
fchdir.2 fork.2 fsync.2 geteuid.2 gettimeofday.2 idle.2 intro.2
link.2 modify_ldt.2 mprotect.2 open.2 setegid.2 seteuid.2 setgid.2
setregid.2 setreuid.2 setsid.2 setuid.2 sigpause.2 undocumented.2
wait.2
catclose.3 catgets.3 catopen.3 closelog.3 intro.3 isalpha.3
openlog.3 strtod.3 syslog.3
passwd.5 proc.5 termcap.5
ascii.7 iso_8859_1.7
238 of the man pages now contain the following notice:
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.
Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this
manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no
responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from
the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not
have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual,
which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working
professionally.
Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
The following 41 man pages now contain the following notice:
proc.5 iso_8859_1.7 intro.1 brk.2 intro.2 ioperm.2 termios.2 phys.2
ptrace.2 acct.2 setsid.2 intro.3 ftw.3 ftime.3 isatty.3 intro.4
tty.4 mem.4 ram.4 null.4 console.4 fd.4 hd.4 lp.4 ttys.4 passwd.5
utmp.5 ttytype.5 intro.5 group.5 nologin.5 securetty.5 environ.5
motd.5 issue.5 termcap.5 shells.5 intro.6 intro.7 ascii.7 intro.8
This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
The GNU General Public License's references to "object code"
and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any
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intermediate and printed output.
This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
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USA.
The notices on the following 56 man pages have not been changed:
sysinfo.2 adjust_clock.9 ctrl-alt-del.9 in_group_p.9
kernel_mktime.9 proc_sel.9 file_table.9 file_table_init.9
filesystems.9 get_empty_filp.9 grow_files.9 insert_file_free.9
put_file_last.9 remove_file_free.9 getitimer.2 accept.2 alloca.3
bind.2 connect.2 exec.3 fclose.3 ferror.3 fflush.3 fopen.3 fread.3
fseek.3 getpass.3 getpeername.2 getpriority.2 getsockname.2
getsockopt.2 ioctl.2 killpg.2 listen.2 lseek.2 mmap.2 popen.3
printf.3 readlink.2 recv.2 scanf.3 send.2 setbuf.3 setpgid.2
setregid.2 setreuid.2 shutdown.2 sigblock.2 sigpause.2 socket.2
socketpair.2 statfs.2 stdarg.3 stdio.3 strtod.3 truncate.2
214 of the 549 man pages are ".so" links
Differences from version 1.2:
Lots of bugs fixed by Jens Schweikhardt (The Typo Terminator):
man3/fget3.c renamed to man3/fgetc.3
Fixed some .so problems (getnetbyname and friends)
About a dozen cases of word doubling corrected
About half a dozen semantic typos corrected
Ran all files through ispell and corrected >200 spelling typos
(If you ever write a man page, use ispell, I mean it!)
Explicitly tested all files whether they run through groff
Hard linked identical files (the ones with just .so foo/bar.1) thus
saving 115 disk blocks and 115 inodes.
Differences from version 1.0:
Thanks to Giorgio Ciucci for the following *NEW* man pages:
msgctl.2 msgrcv.2 semget.2 shmdt.2
msgget.2 msgsnd.2 semop.2 ipc.5
msgop.2 semctl.2 shmat.2 ftok.3
and for updates to shmctl.2, shmget.2, and shmop.2.
Michael Haardt pointed out that some general formatting problems needed
fixing:
Multi-word arguments to .SH are now in quotes
Many instances of - (hyphen) were changed to \- (minus)
Several instances of \- (minus) were changed to \(em (dash)
shells.5 updated (thanks to Michael Haardt)
gethostid.2 updated (thanks for Mitchum DSouza)
Minor updates to write.2, man.7, and a few other man pages.
Fully converted BSD man pages for:
all of the stdio functions (includes printf and scanf)
alloca, popen, stdarg, and exec
Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
Section 1 = user commands (intro only)
Section 2 = system calls
Section 3 = libc calls
Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
Section 5 = file formats (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd)
Section 6 = games (intro only)
Section 7 = macro packages, etc. (e.g., nroff, ascii)
Section 8 = system administration (intro only)
Section 9 = internal kernel routines (for kernel hackers)
(There are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these should be
distributed with the binaries they are written for.)
Note that only Section 2 is really complete, but Section 3 contains several
hundred man pages. I have included all completed man pages in this
distribution to give people an idea of what is available. If you want to
write some man pages, please join the linux-activists DOC channel.
To install this distribution, do something like:
cd /usr/man; zcat man-pages-1.4.tar.gz | tar xvpf -
The following people (listed in alphabetical order by first name) who
wrote, edited, or otherwise contributed to this project:
Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk)
Dan Miner (dminer@nyx.cs.du.edu)
Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com)
Darren Senn (sinster@scintilla.santa-clara.ca.us)
David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu)
Giorgio Ciucci (giorgio@crcc.it)
Graeme W. Wilford (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
Ian Jackson (iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Jens Schweikhardt (Jens.Schweikhardt@rus.uni-stuttgart.de)
Luigi P. Bai (lpb@neosoft.com)
Michael Edward Chastain (mec@shell.portal.com)
Michael Haardt (u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
Mitchum DSouza (m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
Steven Greenland (stevegr@sugar.neosoft.com)
Thomas Koenig (ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)