The following package has been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:
* man-pages-linux 6.04
Documents the Linux kernel system calls and C library interfaces used
by programs, plus system and administrative utilities, devices, file
system, file, and data formats, and related information.
For more information, see the project home page:
https://kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
As Cygwin has its own man pages with some conflicts, these man pages are
installed under /usr/share/man/man-pages-linux/, so by default searching
or viewing these pages requires the option:
$ apropos -m|--systems man-pages-linux ...
$ man -m|--systems man-pages-linux ...
Cygwin man pages are under the default system "man", so for convenience
both systems may be specified separated by comma e.g.
$ man -m man,man-pages-linux ...
The path or option may also be added explicitly to a users MANPATH or
alias e.g.
$ export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/share/man/man-pages-linux
$ alias apropos='apropos -m man,man-pages-linux'
$ alias man='man -m man,man-pages-linux'
Add -a to show both Cygwin and Linux (and POSIX if companion package
man-pages-posix is also installed) manual pages.
For convenience and backward compatibility /usr/share/man/linux is
provided as a symlink.
If you prefer to see Linux man pages over Cygwin man pages, then use
-m|--systems linux in the examples above, or add -m linux to a command.
Release 6 added some section 2 and 3 pages suffixed by const, head,
or type installed in the base section directories.
For recent changes, please see below, or after installation read
/usr/share/doc/man-pages-linux/Changes:
man-pages-6.04 2023-04-03
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
* proc.5 - KPF_PGTABLE (Linux 4.18)
* landlock.7 - LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER (Linux 5.19)
* udp.7 - UDP_GRO (Linux 5.0)
- UDP_SEGMENT (Linux 4.18)
Global changes
* Sections:
- Add HISTORY.
- HISTORY: Restore C89 references.
- Repurpose VERSIONS.
- Simplify STANDARDS.
- SYNOPSIS: Mark several functions as deprecated.
* Build system:
- Support installing in different mandirs
(e.g., man3typedir='/usr/share/man/man3').
- Support installing compressed pages (Z='.gz').
- Support installing link pages as symlinks (LINK_PAGES='symlink').
Changes to individual pages
The manual pages (and other files in the repository) have been improved
beyond what this changelog covers. To learn more about changes applied
to individual pages, use git(1).
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