RELEASE The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . . man-pages-1.66.tar.gz - man pages for Linux POSIX This release is the first to contain the POSIX 1003.1-2003 man pages. The directories man0p, man1p, man3p contain descriptions of the headers, the utilities, and the functions documented in that standard. Permission to distribute these POSIX man pages has just been obtained, and the pages in man0p, man1p, man3p were derived from the POSIX html pages by some silly conversion script. No doubt the result is still full of flaws, and all of this can be much improved. Corrections, scripts, etc. are welcome - aeb@cwi.nl. In order to use this, put in {/usr/share/misc/}man.conf{ig} or so your favourite order of looking at these pages, for example, MANSECT 1p:1:8:0p:3p:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:tcl:n:l:p:o or set the MANSECT environment variable. OTHER PAGES The remaining pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages for Linux, and in addition section 1 man pages for the fileutils-4.0 utilities, and section 5 and 8 man pages for the timezone utilities. [The latter were taken from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.] [The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.] [The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.] Differences from version 1.65: The man pages sys_ipc.h.0p sys_mman.h.0p sys_msg.h.0p sys_resource.h.0p sys_select.h.0p sys_sem.h.0p sys_shm.h.0p sys_socket.h.0p sys_stat.h.0p sys_statvfs.h.0p sys_time.h.0p sys_timeb.h.0p sys_times.h.0p sys_types.h.0p sys_uio.h.0p sys_un.h.0p sys_utsname.h.0p sys_wait.h.0p are new or have been updated. Two typographical errors have been corrected. The nroff version of the POSIX pages was much improved. Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains: Section 0p = POSIX headers Section 1p = POSIX utilities Section 3p = POSIX functions Section 1 = user commands (intro, and pages not maintained by FSF) Section 2 = system calls Section 3 = libc calls Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd) Section 5 = file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs) Section 6 = games (intro only) Section 7 = conventions, macro packages, etc. Section 8 = system administration (intro only) Usually, there are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these should be distributed with the binaries they are written for. Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of the kernel. Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains several hundred man pages. If you want to write some man pages, please do so and mail them to aeb@cwi.nl. The following people (listed in alphabetical order by first name) wrote, edited, or otherwise contributed to this project: Akihiro MOTOKI Alain Knaff Alan Cox Alan Curry Alexey Mahotkin Andi Kleen Andreas Jaeger Andrew Josey Andries E. Brouwer Arnt Gulbrandsen Bjorn Ekwall Bruno Haible Christopher Oliver Claus Fischer Dan Miner Daniel Quinlan Darren Senn David A. Wheeler David Metcalfe Dimitri Papadopoulos Drew Eckhardt Eric S. Raymond Florian La Roche Giorgio Ciucci Graeme W. Wilford Heiner Eisen Helmut Geyer Ian Jackson James Sneeringer Jamie Lokier Jens Schweikhardt Jeremy Phelps Jim Van Zandt Jochen Hein Jochen Karrer John Levon John S. Kallal Jonathan Naylor Joseph S. Myers Luigi P. Bai Mark D. Roth Markus Kuhn Martin Schulze Matthew Wilcox Michael Elizabeth Chastain Michael Haardt Michael Kerrisk Michael Shields Mike Battersby Mike Coleman Mitchum DSouza Nick Duffek Nicolai Langfeldt Nicolás Lichtmaier Niel Charley Pawel Krawczyk Peter Memishian Ralf Baechle Ralph Schleicher Reed H. Petty Rik Faith Robert K. Nichols Robert Love Sam Varshavchik Stephen Lee Steven Greenland Takeo NAKANO Thomas K. Dyas Thomas Koenig Thorsten Kukuk Tigran A. Aivazian Tom Bjorkholm Ulrich Drepper Urs Thuermann Walter Harms Wolfram Gloger Copyright information: For the POSIX pages permission to distribute was given by IEEE and the Open Group, see POSIX-COPYRIGHT. For the remaining pages, please note that these man pages are distributed under a variety of copyright licenses. Although these licenses permit free distribution of the nroff sources contained in this package, commercial distribution may impose other requirements (e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or inclusion of the raw nroff sources with the commercial distribution). If you distribute these man pages commercially, it is your responsibility to figure out your obligations. (For many man pages, these obligations require you to distribute nroff sources with any pre-formatted man pages that you provide.) Each file that contains nroff source for a man page also contains the author(s) name, email address, and copyright notice.