
The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .

    man-pages-1.55.tar.gz - 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 1.54:

    The man pages

	alloc_hugepages.2 arch_prctl.2 clone.2 free_hugepages.2
	futex.2 gettid.2 mmap.2 msgget.2 personality.2 recv.2
	select.2 send.2 setpgid.2 shmget.2 syslog.2 tkill.2
	undocumented.2

	bcmp.3 bcopy.3 bzero.3 getpt.3 grantpt.3 ptsname.3 remove.3
	scanf.3 shm_open.3 string.3 tcgetpgrp.3 tcgetsid.3 unlockpt.3

	futex.4 ptmx.4 pts.4

	proc.5

	signal.7

    are new or have been updated. Typographical or grammatical errors
    have been corrected in several other places.

Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:

    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:

    Alain Knaff <Alain.Knaff@imag.fr>
    Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
    Alan Curry <pacman@cqc.com>
    Alexey Mahotkin <alexm@hsys.msk.ru>
    Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
    Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
    Andries E. Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
    Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@nvg.unit.no>
    Bjorn Ekwall <bj0rn@blox.se>
    Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>
    Christopher Oliver <oliver@fritz.co.traverse.com>
    Claus Fischer <claus.fischer@microworld.com>
    Dan Miner <dminer@nyx.cs.du.edu>
    Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com>
    Darren Senn <sinster@scintilla.santa-clara.ca.us>
    David A. Wheeler <wheeler@ida.org>
    David Metcalfe <david@prism.demon.co.uk>
    Dimitri Papadopoulos <dpo@club-internet.fr>
    Drew Eckhardt <drew@cs.colorado.edu>
    Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
    Florian La Roche <florian@suse.de>
    Giorgio Ciucci <giorgio@crcc.it>
    Graeme W. Wilford <G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
    Heiner Eisen
    Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
    Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
    James Sneeringer <jvs@ocslink.com>
    Jamie Lokier <jamie@imbolc.ucc.ie>
    Jens Schweikhardt <Jens.Schweikhardt@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
    Jeremy Phelps <jphelps@notreached.net>
    Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
    Jochen Hein <Hein@Student.TU-Clausthal.de>
    Jochen Karrer <cip307.cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
    John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk>
    John S. Kallal <kallal@voicenet.com>
    Jonathan Naylor <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk, jsn@cs.nott.ac.uk>
    Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
    Luigi P. Bai <lpb@neosoft.com>
    Mark D. Roth <roth@uiuc.edu>
    Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
    Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
    Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
    Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@duracef.shout.net>
    Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
    Michael Kerrisk <mtk16@ext.canterbury.ac.nz>
    Michael Shields <shields@tembel.org>
    Mike Battersby <mike@starbug.apana.org.au>
    Mike Coleman <mkc@debian.org>
    Mitchum DSouza <m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk>
    Nick Duffek <nsd@bbc.com>
    Nicolai Langfeldt <janl@ifi.uio.no>
    Nicolás Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
    Niel Charley <N.Charley-CSSE93@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk>
    Pawel Krawczyk
    Peter Memishian <meem@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
    Ralf Baechle <ralf@waldorf-gmbh.de>
    Ralph Schleicher <rs@purple.UL.BaWue.DE>
    Reed H. Petty <rhp@draper.net>
    Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
    Robert K. Nichols <Robert.K.Nichols@att.com>
    Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
    Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
    Stephen Lee <sl14@cornell.edu>
    Steven Greenland <stevegr@sugar.neosoft.com>
    Thomas K. Dyas <tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu>
    Thomas Koenig <ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
    Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>
    Tigran A. Aivazian <tigran@sco.com>
    Tom Bjorkholm <tomb@tomb.mydata.se>
    Ulrich Drepper <drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de>
    Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
    Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
    Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>


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