The Linux Documentation Project proudly announces. . . man-pages-1.7.tar.gz - section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 man pages for Linux Differences from version 1.6: The following files have been updated: getdents.2 gethostname.2 gettimeofday.2 modify_ldt.2 mprotect.2 obsolete.2 profil.2 readdir.2 swapon.2 undocumented.2 exit.3 malloc.3 mktemp.3 passwd.5 ascii.7 iso_8859_1.7 mailaddr.7 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-doc mailing list on the vger.rutgers.edu server. To install this distribution, do something like: cd /usr/man; zcat man-pages-1.7.tar.gz | tar xvpf - The following people (listed in alphabetical order by first name) wrote, edited, or otherwise contributed to this project: Alain Knaff (Alain.Knaff@imag.fr) Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk) Andries E. Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) Arnt Gulbrandsen (agulbra@nvg.unit.no) Bjorn Ekwall (bj0rn@blox.se) Christopher Oliver (oliver@fritz.co.traverse.com) 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) Jim Van Zandt (jrv@vanzandt.mv.com) Jochen Hein (Hein@Student.TU-Clausthal.de) Luigi P. Bai (lpb@neosoft.com) Mark D. Roth (roth@uiuc.edu) Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shell.portal.com) Michael Haardt (u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de) Michael Shields (shields@tembel.org) Mike Battersby (mike@starbug.apana.org.au) Mitchum DSouza (m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk) Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no) Niel Charley (N.Charley-CSSE93@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk) Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) Robert K. Nichols (Robert.K.Nichols@att.com) Steven Greenland (stevegr@sugar.neosoft.com) Thomas Koenig (ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de) Ulrich Drepper (drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de) Urs Thuermann (urs@isnogud.escape.de) Copyright information: 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.