Updated POSIX man pages

Linux User ibid.ag at gmail.com
Fri Jan 24 17:15:12 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:06:52PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 08:50 -0800, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 07:04:09PM +0100, Harald Becker wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > for those who are interested: Gentoo seams to have updated POSIX
> > > man pages (first Update since 2003).
> > 
> > Nothing really big: they just added the "arm64" arch.
> > 
> > Ostensibly, there might be a POSIX2008+TC1 update making its way to the
> > linux-manpages project.  But when I heard that permission to redistribute 
> > had been granted and that the maintainer had asked for troff source was
> > sometime last summer, so don't hold your breath.
> 
> You might have missed:
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/581858/
> 
Yes, you are correct. I just discovered that myself.
I'd checked the Gentoo viewvc and found only a minor update, 
so I assumed that was it.

FYI, POSIX2013 == POSIX2008+TC1.

Thanks,
Isaac Dunham


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