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@@ -10,6 +10,18 @@ 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: +Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org> +Bernhard Kuemel <bernhard@bksys.at> +Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com> +Erik Saule <erik.saule@bmi.osu.edu> +Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> +Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org> +Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> +Jose Luis Domingo Lopez <debian@24x7linux.com> +Mark R Bannister <mark@proseconsulting.co.uk> +Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com> +Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org> Apologies if I missed anyone! @@ -17,19 +29,143 @@ Apologies if I missed anyone! New and rewritten pages ----------------------- - -Newly documented interfaces in existing pages ---------------------------------------------- - - -New and changed links ---------------------- +canonicalize_file_name.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Rewrite page, adding much more detail Global changes -------------- +Various pages + Michael Kerrisk + Global fix: s/END_LICENSE/LICENSE_END/ + +Various pages + Michael Kerrisk + Global fix: s/bitmask/bit mask/ + Changes to individual pages --------------------------- +getent.1 + Mark R Bannister + netgroup description incorrectly refers to initgroups + +capget.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Update URL for libcap + +fork.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Port access permission bits (ioperm()) are turned off in the child + +futex.2 + Michael Kerrisk + 'timeout' is a minimum duration that the call will wait, not a maximum + +ioperm.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Note that iopl() level of 3 is needed to access ports + Michael Kerrisk + 'num' is *bits* not bytes! + Michael Kerrisk + Linux 2.6.8 lifted the port limit to 65,536 + See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/202624/ + From: Stas Sergeev <stsp <at> aknet.ru> + Subject: [patch][rfc] Larger IO bitmap + Date: 2004-05-07 19:55:03 GMT + Michael Kerrisk + ioperm() operates on the calling *thread* (not process) + Michael Kerrisk + Clarify meaning of 'turn_on' argument + Plus form formatting fixes. + Michael Kerrisk + Clarify that default state of permission bits in child is off + Michael Kerrisk + NOTES: add mention of /proc/ioports + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: add outb(2) + +iopl.2 + Michael Kerrisk + CAP_SYS_RAWIO is required to *raise* the I/O privilege level + Michael Kerrisk + Clarify that the two least significant bits of 'level' are what matter + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: add outb(2) + +syscalls.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Add version information for all (other) syscalls + Michael Kerrisk + Add perfmonctl(2) + +futimes.3 + Michael Kerrisk [Jonathan Nieder] + ERRORS: Add ENOSYS for lutimes() + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620746 + +getpass.3 + Michael Kerrisk [Erik Saule] + Suggest use of the ECHO flag as an alternative + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644261 + +realpath.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Document GNU extensions for EACCES and ENOENT errors + +stdarg.3 + Michael Kerrisk [Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs] + Describe va_copy() + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575077 + +termios.3 + Michael Kerrisk [Bernhard Kuemel] + Mention that noncanonical mode does not do input processing + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=643854 + +random.4 + Elie De Brauwer + Document write and document the ioctl interface of /dev/random + The update consists out of two parts: + - a minor thing which just documents what happens if a write to + /dev/(u)random is performed, which is used in the example + script but not explicitly mentioned. + - the other (biggest) part is the documentation of the ioctl() + interface which /dev/(u)random exposes. This ioctl() lives in + drivers/char/random.c and the primitives can be found in + include/linux/random.h + + One comment remains, there used to be an RNDGETPOOL ioctl() which + disappeared in v2.6.9. I found two patches on the net: + - http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8.1/2.6.8.1-mm4/broken-out/dev-random-remove-rndgetpool-ioctl.patch + - https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/3/25/168 + + But as far as I can tell the first one got applied but the 2nd + one seems more correct. The result is that even today one can + still find traces of the RNDGETPOOL ioctl() in the header files. + Is this there for historical reasons or because it might break + userspace, even though using it will just give an EINVAL. + +bootparam.7 + Jose Luis Domingo Lopez + Document 'rootfstype' option + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182014 + +capabilities.7 + Michael Kerrisk + Add various pieces under CAP_SYS_RAWIO + Info obtained by grepping the kernel source. + Michael Kerrisk + Add CAP_SYS_RESOURCE /proc/PID/oom_score_adj case + +netlink.7 + Andrey Vagin + Add a note about broadcast messages to multiple groups + +socket.7 + Michael Kerrisk [Florian Weimer] + Define _GNU_SOURCE to obtain the definition of 'struct ucred' + See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572210 |