Authors of version 6.16
==================== Changes in man-pages-6.16 ====================Released: 2025-10-29, Aldaya
New and rewritten pages
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man2/
fsconfig.2
fsmount.2
fsopen.2
fspick.2
move_mount.2
open_tree.2
man2const/
PR_FUTEX_HASH_GET_SLOTS.2const
PR_FUTEX_HASH_SET_SLOTS.2const
man2type/
mount_attr.2type (split from mount_setattr(2))
man3/
_Fork.3
countof.3
memeq.3
streq.3
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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man2/
mount_setattr.2
glibc wrapper
pidfd_open.2
PIDFD_THREAD
pidfd_send_signal.2
PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD
PIDFD_SIGNAL_THREAD_GROUP
PIDFD_SIGNAL_PROCESS_GROUP
quotactl.2
quotactl_fd(2)
readv.2
RWF_DONTCACHE
sigaction.2
SI_ASYNCNL
FPE_FLTUNK
FPE_CONDTRAP
SEGV_ACCADI
SEGV_ADIDERR
SEGV_ADIPERR
SEGV_MTEAERR
SEGV_MTESERR
SEGV_CPERR
TRAP_UNK
TRAP_PERF
SYS_USER_DISPATCH
EMT_TAGOVF
man3/
abs.3
umaxabs(3)
opendir.3
ENAMETOOLONG
man7/
operator.7
(type){}
alignof
_Countof
rtnetlink.7
RTAX_UNSPEC
RTAX_LOCK
RTAX_MTU
RTAX_WINDOW
RTAX_RTT
RTAX_RTTVAR
RTAX_SSTHRESH
RTAX_CWND
RTAX_ADVMSS
RTAX_REORDERING
RTAX_HOPLIMIT
RTAX_INITCWND
RTAX_FEATURES
RTAX_RTO_MIN
RTAX_INITRWND
RTAX_QUICKACK
RTAX_CC_ALGO
RTAX_FASTOPEN_NO_COOKIE
sched.7
CONFIG_PREEMPT
CONFIG_PREEMPT_LAZY
tcp.7
TCP_SAVE_SYN
TCP_SAVED_SYN
New and changed links
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man2/
open_tree_attr.2 (open_tree(2))
quotactl_fd.2 (quotactl(2))
man3/
umaxabs.3 (abs(3))
Global changes
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- man/
- Update documentation for POSIX.1-2024 (still more work to do).
- SYNOPSIS: Use GNU forward-declarations of parameters for sizes of
array parameters.
- Improve style of source code for tbl(1) tables.
- man2/: Use the common name 'fd' instead of 'fildes'.
- Use semantic newlines.
- EXAMPLES
- Use err(3) and errc(3bsd) instead of similar macros.
- Fix includes (thanks to iwyu(1)).
- Use NITEMS() consistently.
- Don't name unused parameters.
- share/mk/
- Add support for the chapter man3attr.
- help: Document the usual targets.
- lint-man-blank: Add target to lint about blank lines.
- lint-man-ws: Diagnose spurious use of white space.
- lint-man-quote: Diagnose an unmatched quote.
- lint-man-poems: Diagnose (lack of) semantic newlines.
- lint-man-dash: Diagnose unescaped dashes
- Merge handling of man(7) and mdoc(7) pages.
- lint, build, check: Move exceptions to separate files.
- Remove unused variables.
- Unify local variable names.
- Silence diagnostics about unnamed parameters.
- configure/build-depends/:
- Add awk/awk.
- Add pcre2-utils/pcre2grep.
Changes to individual files
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- src/bin/
- sortman(1): Fix order of intro(*) pages for subsections.
- diffman-git(1): Show sections as hunk context.
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