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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-08-19 11:34:08 -0500 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-08-19 11:36:39 -0500 |
| commit | 9da7b16499ad73d9f878f21064cae30dcfa02274 (patch) | |
| tree | 1fe93dd2e99095bb4d5eed40561d2c7e8476ea97 | |
| parent | af81e9cd97ba7813d6f2f34f6158575aadfa0aef (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-9da7b16499ad73d9f878f21064cae30dcfa02274.tar.gz | |
Changes: Ready for 3.71
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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1 files changed, 405 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.71 ==================== -Released: ????-??-??, Munich +Released: ????-??-??, Chicago Contributors @@ -10,6 +10,25 @@ The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been incorporated in changes in this release: +Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> +Damir Nedzibovic <d.nedzibovic@anoxtech.com> +David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> +D. Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com> +Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> +Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup@redhat.com> +Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> +Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> +NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> +Paul Jackson <pj@usa.net> +Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com> +Rahul Bedarkar <rahulbedarkar89@gmail.com> +Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> +Ryan Hammonds <rhammonds@unicoi.com> +Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org> +Ville Ylenius <ville@ylenius.net> +Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> +Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru> Apologies if I missed anyone! @@ -17,19 +36,402 @@ Apologies if I missed anyone! New and rewritten pages ----------------------- +group_member.3 + Michael Kerrisk + New page documenting group_member(3) + +isfdtype.3 + Michael Kerrisk + New page documenting isfdtype(3) + Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- +perf_event_open.2 + Vince Weaver + Document new comm_exec flag + Linux 3.16 (more specifically, commit 82b897782d10fcc4 ) + added support for differentiating between process renames + caused by exec versus those caused by other methods. + Vince Weaver + Document new mmap2 record type + Linux 3.16 (more specifically, commit a5a5ba72843dd05f9 ) + enabled the enhanced mmap2 record support. + The interface was added in Linux 3.12 but disabled until + Linux 3.16. + Vince Weaver + Document PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND + Linux 3.16 (more specifically, commit bac52139f0b7ab31330 ) + adds support for gathering PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND + conditional branch values when doing PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK + sampling. -New and changed links ---------------------- +proc.5 + Michael Kerrisk + Document /proc/PID/comm + Michael Kerrisk + Document /proc/PID/pagemap + Michael Kerrisk + Document /proc/PID/personality + Michael Kerrisk + Document /proc/PID/syscall + Michael Kerrisk + Document /proc/kpagecount + Michael Kerrisk + Document /proc/kpageflags + Michael Kerrisk + Document /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_kbytes + +capabilities.7 + Michael Kerrisk + Add CAP_AUDIT_READ + CAP_AUDIT_READ is new in Linux 3.16. Global changes -------------- +ldd.1 +clone.2 +execve.2 +getpagesize.2 +ioperm.2 +msgop.2 +readv.2 +recv.2 +select.2 +send.2 +seteuid.2 +shmop.2 +signal.2 +sync.2 +sysinfo.2 +utime.2 +abs.3 +atoi.3 +catopen.3 +clearenv.3 +ctime.3 +des_crypt.3 +ecvt.3 +flockfile.3 +fseeko.3 +ftime.3 +ftok.3 +ftw.3 +getcwd.3 +getdtablesize.3 +getline.3 +getpass.3 +getpass.3 +getutent.3 +glob.3 +insque.3 +lseek64.3 +memmem.3 +mkstemp.3 +mktemp.3 +on_exit.3 +openpty.3 +putenv.3 +putenv.3 +qecvt.3 +realpath.3 +realpath.3 +remove.3 +setbuf.3 +sigpause.3 +strftime.3 +strptime.3 +tzset.3 +xcrypt.3 +utmp.5 +environ.7 +ipv6.7 +packet.7 + Michael Kerrisk + Remove ancient Linux libc details + +access.2 +brk.2 +chmod.2 +eventfd.2 +gethostname.2 +getpriority.2 +mmap.2 +poll.2 +ptrace.2 +readv.2 +sched_setaffinity.2 +select.2 +seteuid.2 +signalfd.2 +sync_file_range.2 +timer_create.2 +uname.2 +wait.2 + Michael Kerrisk + NOTES: add "C library/kernel ABI differences" subheading + Changes to individual pages --------------------------- +access.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Glibc falls back to using access() on kernels that lack faccessat() + +bdflush.2 +fsync.2 +sync.2 +proc.5 + Adrian Bunk + Change "sync(1)" to "sync(8)" + +bind.2 + Michael Kerrisk [Ryan Hammonds] + Correct EINVAL error description + As pointed out by Ryan: + + My application is trying to bind an IPv4 UDP socket to an + address. I've found that passing an invalid address length + to bind() causes bind to return EINVAL. According to the + bind(2) manpage, this should only occur when using unix + domain sockets (which I am not). + +chmod.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Glibc falls back to chmod() on kernels that don't support fchmodat() + Michael Kerrisk + Glibc falls back to chown()/lchown() on kernels that lack fchownat() + +epoll_wait.2 + Michael Kerrisk + NOTES: describe raw epoll_pwait() system call differences + +getgroups.2 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: add group_member(3) + +getpriority.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Enhance discussion of kernel nice range versus user-space nice range + Michael Kerrisk + Move text describing nice range on other systems + +getrlimit.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Add cross reference to core(5) in discussion of RLIMIT_CORE + Michael Kerrisk + Describe the "large" resource limit bug on 32-bit platforms + See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5042. + Michael Kerrisk + Glibc's setrlimit() and getrlimit() are implemented using prlimit() + +kexec_load.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Note limit of 16 for 'nr_segments' + Michael Kerrisk + Clarify the 'flags' bits that contain the architecture + Michael Kerrisk + Add KEXEC_ARCH_68K to list of architectures for 'flags' + Michael Kerrisk + Reword description of 'flags' a little + +link.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Glibc falls back to link() on kernels that lack linkat() + Unless 'flags' contains AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW. + +mkdir.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Glibc falls back to mkdir() on kernels that don't support mkdirat() + +perf_event_open.2 + Vince Weaver + Clarify PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER usage + This clarifies the PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER section. + I found these issue while implementing some code that uses + the option. The important change is fixing the name of the + sample_stack_user parameter, the rest is just some wording + fixes and minor clarifications. + Vince Weaver + Clarify PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC usage + When checking the fields in the PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC type samples + you need to shift the masks before doing the compare. + + Although the value you are checking (perf_mem_data_src) is + specified as a bitfield so this might all fall apart if trying + to access the field in a cross-endian way. The Power people + were working on this issue, not sure if they resolved it. + +poll.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Describe fifth argument (sigsetsize) of raw ppoll() system call + +process_vm_readv.2 + Michael Kerrisk [Ville Ylenius] + Fix typo in example program + +readlink.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Glibc falls back to readlink() on kernels that lack readlinkat() + +recv.2 + Michael Kerrisk + 'addrlen' should be NULL (not 0) if we don't need sender address + +rename.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Glibc falls back to rename() when the kernel doesn't have renameat() + +sigwaitinfo.2 + Michael Kerrisk + The raw sigtimedwait() system call has a fifth argument + +symlink.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Glibc falls back to symlink() on kernels that lack symlinkat() + +sysinfo.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Add VERSIONS section + +unlink.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Glibc falls back to unlink() or rmdir() on kernels that lack unlinkat() + +atoi.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Downgrade discussion of atoq() + Remove most references to atoq() in this page, since this function + was present only in Linux libc (not glibc). + +cerf.3 +cexp2.3 +clog2.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Update version number on "Not yet in glibc" sentence + +fgetgrent.3 +getgrent.3 +getgrent_r.3 +getgrnam.3 + Michael Kerrisk [Rob Landley] + Clarify that 'gr_mem' is a NULL-terminated array of pointers + +fseeko.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Add VERSIONS section + +ftw.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Add VERSIONS section + +getauxval.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Document ENOENT error + And add an entry to BUGS explaining the ambiguity that was + present before the addition of this error. + +getgrouplist.3 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: add group_member(3) + +getline.3 + Rahul Bedarkar + Close opened file at end of example program + +memmem.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Rewrite text of glibc 2.0 bug + +printf.3 + Michael Kerrisk [Jakub Wilk] + Clarify details of the %n conversion specifier + See http://bugs.debian.org/756602 + Michael Kerrisk [Jakub Wilk] + Note use of 'j', 'z', and 't' length modifiers for '%n' + See http://bugs.debian.org/756602 + Michael Kerrisk + Update with some SUSv3 details + +setbuf.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Remove ancient Linux libc and 4.x BSD details + +strstr.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Remove discussion of Linux libc bugs + Linux libc is old enough that we needn't care any longer. + +strtod.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Explain NAN(n-char-sequence) + +strtod.3 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: add nan(3), nanf(3), NANL(3) + +updwtmp.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Replace AVAILABILITY section with note to link logwtmp() using -lutil + Linux libc details are no longer needed these days. + +core.5 + Rahul Bedarkar + Close opened file in example program + +proc.5 + Michael Kerrisk + Fix kernel version numbers for /proc/PID/stat fields + +proc.5 + jchaloup + Add missing proc stats fields + Adding missing proc stats fields from + https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt + Michael Kerrisk [Simon Paillard] + Remove crufty text under 'timer_stats' + Michael Kerrisk + Update /proc/PID/stat 'state' field documentation + Michael Kerrisk + Improve description of /proc/PID/stat fields added in Linux 3.3 and 3.5 + Michael Kerrisk + Refer to getauxval(3) in discussion of /proc/PID/auxv + Michael Kerrisk + Rework formatting of /proc/PID/stat list + Make the field numbers more prominent. + Michael Kerrisk + Note that /proc/PID/cmdline is read-only + Michael Kerrisk + Rework discussion of CommitLimit and /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory + Michael Kerrisk + Improve discussion of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio + +charsets.7 + David Prévot [Marko Myllynen] + Tidy up list + Remove German from main list, to be consistent with earlier + removal of Dutch and French (in commit a8ed5f7430e0d1). + +inotify.7 + Michael Kerrisk + Note that IN_ONLY_DIR can be used to avoid races + Michael Kerrisk + Note that insertion of IN_MOVED_FROM+IN_MOVED_TO pair is not atomic + Michael Kerrisk + Mention use of timeout when reading IN_MOVED_TO after IN_MOVED_FROM + +man-pages.7 + Michael Kerrisk + Add description of "C library/kernel ABI differences" subsection + Michael Kerrisk + Rework text describing sections (stylistic improvements) + +vdso.7 + Mike Frysinger + Add new i386 vdso symbols in Linux 3.15 + Michael Kerrisk + Note kernel version that exports new i386 symbols (Linux 3.15) |