-==================== Changes in man-pages-3.77 ====================
+==================== Changes in man-pages-5.01 ====================
Released: ????-??-??, Munich
in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
incorporated in changes in this release:
-Akihiro Motoki <amotoki@gmail.com>
-Alexandre Bique <bique.alexandre@gmail.com>
-Andre Majorel <aym-xunil@teaser.fr>
-Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
-Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
-Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
-Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
-Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
-Ignat Loskutov <ignat.loskutov@gmail.com>
-Jeff Epler <jepler@unpythonic.net>
-Jérôme Pouiller <jezz@sysmic.org>
-Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
-Laurent Georget <laurent.georget@supelec.fr>
-Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
-Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
-Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
-Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
-Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com>
-Troy Davis <troy@yort.com>
-Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
-Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
-seccomp.2
- Kees Cook, Michael Kerrisk, Will Drewry [Andy Lutomirski]
- New page documenting seccomp(2)
- Combines documentation from prctl, in-kernel seccomp_filter.txt
- and dropper.c, along with details specific to the new system call.
-
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
-netlink.7
- Stephan Mueller [Michael Kerrisk]
- Add NETLINK_CRYPTO
+
+New and changed links
+---------------------
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
Changes to individual pages
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-adjtimex.2
- Laurent Georget [Richard Cochran, Jeff Epler]
- Clarify the 'ppm scaling' used in struct timex
- This patch makes explicit and clarifies the unit used for
- the fields "freq", "ppsfreq" and "stabil" in struct timex.
- Michael Kerrisk [Masanari Iida]
- Note that TIME_ERROR is the modern synonym for TIME_BAD
-
-perf_event_open.2
- Vince Weaver
- Clarify the PERF_FLAG_FD_* flags
- This change clarifies the behavior of the PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT and
- PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP flags to perf_event_open(), and removes
- the related FIXME comments.
-
- While writing tests to validate the behavior of these flags I
- discovered that PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT has been broken since the
- 2.6.35 kernel release.
-
-prctl.2
- Dave Hansen [Michael Kerrisk]
- Add description of Intel MPX calls
- The 3.19 kernel will have support for Intel MPX, including
- a pair of new prctl() calls (PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT and
- PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT) for enabling and disabling the
- kernel's management of the "bounds tables". Add a
- descriptions of the interface.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add mention of seccomp(2) under PR_SET_SECCOMP
- Michael Kerrisk
- Suggest /proc/PID/status "Seccomp" as alternative to PRCTL_GET_SECCOMP
- Michael Kerrisk
- SIGKILL can also occur PRCTL_GET_SECCOMP in SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER mode
- Kees Cook [Andy Lutomirski]
- Document SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER vs EFAULT
- This notes the distinction made between EINVAL and EFAULT when
- attempting to use SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER with PR_SET_SECCOMP.
-
-setns.2
-pid_namespaces.7
- Mike Frysinger
- Elaborate discussion of the PID namespace descendant limitation
- The setns(2) man page already mentions that CLONE_NEWPID may only
- be used with descendant namespaces, but this nuance could be
- listed in a few more places so it is not missed.
-
-shmget.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Akihiro Motoki]
- Make wording of SHMALL description a little clearer
-
-sigaction.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add siginfo_t fields for SECCOMP_RET_TRAP
-
-memchr.3
-strstr.3
- Alexandre Bique
- Reference memmem(3) in SEE ALSO section
-
-memcmp.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Michael Haardt]
- NOTES: add some detail on avoiding memcmp() of cryptographic data
- Wording largely based on comments from Michael Haardt.
-
-pthread_tryjoin_np.3
- Jérôme Pouiller [Michael Kerrisk]
- Document EINVAL error for pthread_timedjoin_np()
-
-mem.4
- Elie De Brauwer
- /dev/kmem depends on CONFIG_DEVKMEM
- Elie De Brauwer
- Correct /dev/port group in example
- mem.4 mentions that group for /dev/port should be set to 'mem'
- However, all other files (/dev/mem and /dev/kmem) use the kmem
- group in their examples and on my system /dev/port belongs to
- kmem. Hence the 'mem' group was probably a typo:
- Elie De Brauwer
- Add CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM
- Since 2.6.26 the CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM options limits the
- physical addresses which can be accessed through /dev/mem.
-
-random.4
- Heinrich Schuchardt
- Describe handling of O_NONBLOCK
- /dev/random and /dev/urandom treat O_NONBLOCK differently.
- This should be described in the manpage.
- Heinrich Schuchardt
- Mention PRNG used by urandom
- /dev/urandom uses a pseudo-random number generator to replace
- missing entropy.
-
-proc.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document "Seccomp" field of /proc/PID/status
-
-epoll.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Ignat Loskutov]
- Use epoll_create1() rather than epoll_create() in the code example
- epoll_create1() is more or less the preferred API for new
- applications, since it allows for some flags and avoids the
- misdesigned epoll_create() argument, and so it seems sensible
- to use that in the example, rather than epoll_create().
-
-tcp.7
- Troy Davis
- Clarify tcp_tw_recycle on Internet-facing hosts
- Clarify that tcp_tw_recycle will break communication with many
- general-purpose remote Internet hosts (namely, remote NAT devices)
- even when the Linux device itself is not behind NAT.
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