-==================== Changes in man-pages-3.78 ====================
+==================== Changes in man-pages-5.02 ====================
Released: ????-??-??, Munich
in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
incorporated in changes in this release:
-Akihiro Motoki <amotoki@gmail.com>
-Alexey Ishchuk <aishchuk@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
-Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de>
-Daniel J Blueman <daniel@quora.org>
-David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
-David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
-Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
-Elliot Hughes <enh@google.com>
-Jessica McKellar <jessica.mckellar@gmail.com>
-Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
-Michael Hayes <mike@aiinc.ca>
-Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
-Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
-execveat.2
- David Drysdale, Michael Kerrisk [Rich Felker]
- New page for execveat(2)
-
-memfd_create.2
- Michael Kerrisk, David Herrmann
- New page for memfd_create() system call
- Including notes about file sealing
-
-s390_pci_mmio_write.2
- Alexey Ishchuk
- New page for s390 s390_pci_mmio_write() and s390_pci_mmio_read()
- New manual page for the new PCI MMIO memory access system
- calls, s390_pci_mmio_write() and s390_pci_mmio_read(),
- added for the s390 platform.
-
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
-fcntl.2
- David Herrmann [Michael Kerrisk]
- Document F_ADD_SEALS and F_GET_SEALS commands
-
-proc.5
- Elie De Brauwer
- Document /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document /proc/sys/fs/nr_open
-
New and changed links
---------------------
-s390_pci_mmio_read.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- New link to new s390_pci_mmio_write(2) page
+
+Global changes
+--------------
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
-dup.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to RLIMIT_NOFILE for EMFILE error
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to RLIMIT_NOFILE for EBADF error on 'newfd'.
-
-execve.2
-fexecve.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add execveat(2)
-
-fallocate.2
-mmap.2
-open.2
-truncate.2
-write.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- ERRORS: add EPERM for operation denied by file seal
-
-fcntl.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- ERRORS: add EBUSY case for F_SETPIPE_SZ
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to RLIMIT_NOFILE for F_DUPFD EINVAL error on 'arg'.
- Michael Kerrisk
- ERRORS: add open file description lock error cases
-
-getrlimit.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Update text on RLIMIT_NOFILE ceiling to refer to /proc/sys/fs/file-max
-
-mbind.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Daniel J Blueman]
- Clarify EFAULT text
-
-mmap.2
-shmget.2
-shm_open.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add memfd_create(2)
-
-open.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Refer to RLIMIT_NOFILE for explanation of EMFILE error
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add execveat(2) in system call list under "Rationale for openat()"
-
-perf_event_open.2
- Vince Weaver
- Clarify description of overflow events
- Update the perf_event_open manpage to be more consistent when
- discussing overflow events. It merges the discussion of
- poll-type notifications with those generated by SIGIO
- signal handlers.
- This addresses the remaining FIXMEs is the document.
- Vince Weaver
- Remove inaccurate paragraph describing attr.config
- Remove an inaccurate paragraph about values in the attr.config
- field. This information was never true in any released kernel;
- it somehow snuck into the manpage because it is still described
- this way in tools/perf/design.txt in the kernel source tree.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Correct the kernel version number for PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_NODE
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add some kernel version numbers to various fields and constants
-
-ptrace.2
-sigaction.2
-seccomp.2
- Kees Cook
- Ptrace and siginfo details
- While writing some additional seccomp tests, I realized
- PTRACE_EVENT_SECCOMP wasn't documented yet. Fixed this, and added
- additional notes related to ptrace events SIGTRAP details.
-
-readv.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Update details on glibc readv()/writev() wrapper behavior
- And add a historical detail about Linux 2.0.
-
-select.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention RLIMIT_NOFILE as a possible cause of EINVAL error
-
-syscall.2
- Kees Cook
- Add arm64 and mips
- Add mips an d arm64 to tables, along with some further
- details on these architectures,
-
-syscalls.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add s390_pci_mmio_read(2) and s390_pci_mmio_write(2)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note kernel() version that introduced get_kernel_syms()
- Note kernel version that introduced ppc_rtas()
- Note kernel version that introduced create_module()
- Note kernel version that added setup()
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove some details for sync_file_range2()
- Make the table a bit simpler. The details can anyway be
- found in the system call man page.
-
-utimensat.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Elliot Hughes]
- If both tv_sec fields are UTIME_OMIT, the file need not exist
- As noted by Elliot, if both tv_sec fields are UTIME_OMIT,
- utimensat() will return success even if the file does not exist.
-
-errno.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- The RLIMIT_NOFILE resource limit is a common cause of EMFILE
-
-exec.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add execveat(2)
-
-fclose.3
- Carlos O'Donell
- Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
- Harmonize all the manual pages to use "stream" for FILE*
- instead of randomly using "fp" or "stream." Choosing something
- and being consistent helps users scan the man pages quickly
- and understand what they are looking at.
-
-fexecve.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rewrite the script+close-on-exec problem as a BUG
- Also, add one or two details about this scenario.
- Michael Kerrisk
- The natural idiom when using fexecve() is to use the close-on-exec flag
-
-fmemopen.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
-
-fopencookie.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
-
-getgrent_r.3
- Carlos O'Donell
- Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
-
-getline.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
-
-getmntent.3
- Carlos O'Donell
- Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
-
-getpw.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Carlos O'Donell]
- Describe return value when 'uid' is not found
-
-getpwent_r.3
- Carlos O'Donell
- Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
-
-getspnam.3
- Carlos O'Donell
- Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
-
-malloc_info.3
- Carlos O'Donell
- Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
-
-posix_fallocate.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that posix_fallocate() is implemented using fallocate(2)
-
-putgrent.3
- Carlos O'Donell
- Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
- Harmonize all the manual pages to use "stream" for FILE*
- instead of randomly using "fp" or "stream." Choosing something
- and being consistent helps users scan the man pages quickly
- and understand what they are looking at.
-
-locale.5
- Akihiro Motoki
- Correct variable name
-
-proc.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove bogus statement about NR_OPEN being a ceiling for file-max