-==================== Changes in man-pages-3.76 ====================
+==================== Changes in man-pages-4.17 ====================
-Released: 2014-12-31, Munich
+Released: ????-??-??, Munich
Contributors
in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
incorporated in changes in this release:
-Adam Jiang <jiang.adam@gmail.com>
-Andrea Balboni <andrea.balboni@unimore.it>
-Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
-Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>
-Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
-David Wragg <david@wragg.org>
-Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
-Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
-Huxiaoxiang <huxiaoxiang@huawei.com>
-Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup@redhat.com>
-Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
-Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
-Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
-Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
-Laurent Georget <laurent.georget@supelec.fr>
-Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez@gmail.com>
-Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com>
-Ma Shimiao <mashimiao.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
-Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
-Michael Gehring <mg@ebfe.org>
-Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
-Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
-Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
-Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
-Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
-Scott Harvey <scott.harvey@stonybrook.edu>
-Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@gmail.com>
-Simon Newton <nomis52@gmail.com>
-Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
-Sven Hoexter <sven@stormbind.net>
-Tobias Werth <werth@cs.fau.de>
-Weijie Yang <weijie.yang.kh@gmail.com>
-Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
-Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
-刘湃 <liupai_work@163.com>
-尹杰 <writalnaie@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
-adjtimex.2
- Laurent Georget
- Add fields in struct timex description
- This patch updates the man page with the new fields added in
- struct timex since last edition of the man page.
- Laurent Georget [Michael Kerrisk]
- Document ADJ_TAI
- Michael Kerrisk
- Improve description of ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add brief documentation of ADJ_MICRO and ADJ_NANO
- Michael Kerrisk
- Reformat return value list
- And remove numeric values, since they're not needed
- Michael Kerrisk
- Other 'modes' bits are ignored on ADJ_OFFSET_*
- Other bits in 'modes' are ignored if modes contains
- ADJ_OFFSET_SINGLESHOT or ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add nanosecond details
- Fixes https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61171.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document ADJ_OFFSET_SS_READ
- Michael Kerrisk
- Reformat 'times' flags as list
- And remove numeric values, since they're not needed.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note effect of ADJ_NANO for ADJ_SETOFFSET
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add comment noting that timex structure contains padding bytes
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add more details to description of 'tai' field
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note meaning of "PLL" abbreviation
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify which 'timex' field is used by each 'modes' bit
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document timex 'status' bits
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify treatment of other 'modes' bits for ADJ_OFFSET_*
- Michael Kerrisk
- Update RFC number: RFC 5905 obsoletes RFC 1305
- Michael Kerrisk
- Briefly document ADJ_SETOFFSET
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note PPS (pulse per second) fields in timex structure
-
-sigreturn.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add (a lot) more detail on the signal trampoline
- And rewrite much of the page.
-
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
-proc.5
- Bernhard Walle
- Document /proc/thread-self
- /proc/thread-self has been introduced in Linux 3.17 with
- commit 0097875bd41528922fb3bb5f348c53f17e00e2fd.
- Sven Hoexter [Michael Kerrisk, Kamezawa Hiroyuki]
- Document "VmSwap" field of /proc/[pid]/status
- Florian Westphal
- Document /proc/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue
-
-
-Changes to individual pages
----------------------------
-
-localedef.1
- Marko Myllynen
- Mention default path for compiled files
-
-clock_nanosleep.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that 'clock_id' can also be a CPU clock ID
-
-epoll_ctl.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Regular files and directories can't be monitored with epoll_ctl()
-
-ioctl.2
- Heinrich Schuchardt
- Rename 'd' argument to 'fd' in text
- In most other manpages file descriptors are called 'fd'.
- This patches renames attribute 'd' to 'fd'.
-
-madvise.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- VERSIONS: Support for madvise() is now configurable
- Support for this system call now depends on the
- CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS configuration option.
-
-open.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Enhance rationale discussion for openat() and friends
-
-posix_fadvise.2
- Mel Gorman
- Document the behavior of partial page discard requests
- It is not obvious from the interface that partial page discard'
- requests are ignored. It should be spelled out.
- Michael Kerrisk [Weijie Yang]
- ERRORS: Since 2.6.16, the kernel correctly deals with the ESPIPE case
- Michael Kerrisk
- Support for fadvise64() is now configurable
- Support for this system call now depends on the
- CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS configuration option.
-
-prctl.2
- Andreas Schwab
- Correct description of null-termination in PR_GET_NAME and PR_SET_NAME
- The size of the process name has always been at most 16 byte
- _including_ the null terminator. This also means that the
- name returned by PR_GET_NAME is always null-terminated.
- Michael Kerrisk
- PR_SET_NAME silently truncates strings that exceed 16 bytes
-
-restart_syscall.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add some text explaining why restart_syscall() exists
-
-sched_setaffinity.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- NOTES: Add paragraph on how to discover set of CPUs available on system
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add nproc(1) and lscpu(1)
-
-select.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add restart_syscall(2)
-
-semop.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add note that interrupted semtimedop() returns 'timeout' unchanged
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove information about semtimedop() EAGAIN that is repeated elsewhere
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add subsection head for semtimedop()
-
-setsid.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rewrite some pieces and add some details
- Among other changes, add an explanation of why setsid() can't
- be called from a process group leader
-
-sgetmask.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Since 3.16, support for these system call is configurable
- Support for these calls is now dependent on the setting of the
- CONFIG_SGETMASK_SYSCALL option.
-
-sigaction.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document SA_RESTORER
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add some detail on the sa_restorer field
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add sigreturn(2)
-
-splice.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Reformat description of 'fd_in' and 'off_in' to improve readability
-
-syscall.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add errno(3)
-
-syscalls.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add errno(3)
- Michael Kerrisk
- 3.19 adds execveat()
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add bpf(2) to list
-
-tee.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add shell session demonstrating use of the example program
-
-tkill.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Rich Felker]
- Remove bogus text saying tgid==-1 makes tgkill() equivalent to tkill()
-
-abort.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that SIGABRT is raised as though raise(3) is called
- Also note that abort is POSIX.1-2008 compliant.
-
-cmsg.3
- David Wragg
- ensure buf is suitably aligned in sending example
- Inspection of the definition of CMSG_FIRSTHDR (both in glibc and
- the suggested definition in RFC3542) shows that it yields the
- msg_control field. So when sending, the pointer placed in
- msg_control should be suitably aligned as a struct cmsghdr.
- In the sending example, buf was declared as a bare char array,
- and so is not necessarily suitably aligned.
-
- The solution here involves placing buf inside a union, and is
- based on the sockets/scm_rights_send.c sample from The Linux
- Programming Interface "dist" source code collection.
-
-exp10.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Before glibc 2.19, exp() did not give ERANGE error on underflow
- http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6787
-ftw.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- FTW_CHDIR has no effect on the 'fpath' argument passed to fn()
+New and changed links
+---------------------
-getopt.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Jonny Grant]
- Ensure that 'nsecs' is used
-ilogb.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Will Newton]
- Since glibc 2.16, ilogb() does correctly diagnose domain errors
+Global changes
+--------------
-memcmp.3
- Michael Haardt
- Document return value for n==0 case
- Michael Haardt
- Warn against use of memcmp() for comparing security-critical data
-mq_open.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document the O_CLOEXEC flag
- Michael Kerrisk
- Place 'flags' constants in alphabetical order
-
-pow.3
- Manuel López-Ibáñez
- Add note on performance characteristics of pow()
-
-pthread_setschedparam.3
- Simon Newton
- Fix logic error in example program
- The example program will crash if -A is used, since 'attr'
- is uninitialized.
-
- $ ./a.out -A
- *** Error in `./a.out': free(): invalid pointer: 0xb779c3c4 ***
- Aborted (core dumped)
- 刘湃
- Small fixes to example program
-
-sigvec.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Starting with version 2.21, glibc no longer exports sigvec()
-
-sysconf.3
- Josh Triplett
- Document _SC_NGROUPS_MAX
- Already documented in getgroups(2), but not in sysconf(3).
-
-termios.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add tset(1)
-
-tgamma.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Since glibc 2.18, errno is correctly set to EDOM when (x == -infinity))
-
-wordexp.3
- Carlos O'Donell
- Make it clear that WRDE_NOCMD prevents command substitution
- The use of WRDE_NOCMD prevents command substitution. If the flag
- WRDE_NOCMD is set then no command substitution shall occur and
- the error WRDE_CMDSUB will be returned if such substitution is
- requested when processing the words.
-
- The manual page as-is makes it seem like the command substitution
- occurs, and an error is returned *after* the substitution.
- This patch clarifies that.
-
-locale.5
- Marko Myllynen
- Describe the formats of values
- locale(5) describes what a locale should define but doesn't
- spell out how (in what format). The patch attempts to address
- this, it also has few trivial additional enhancements.
-
- * Reference to locale(7) for category descriptions.
- * Clarify first_workday in NOTES a bit.
- * Add upstream BZ reference for two missing LC_ADDRESS fields.
- Marko Myllynen
- Fix miscoded character
-
-resolv.conf.5
- Jan Chaloupka
- Add missing no-tld-query option
- Based on commit [1], the no-tld-query option exists for
- resolv.conf configuration file. Description of this option
- is provided in [2]. This patch just copies this option
- into resolv.conf.5 man page. Plus changes 'a' member
- into 'an' before 'unqualified name as if it ...'
- on the third line of [2]. Based on [3], this option
- was added in glibc 2.14 as solving [4] bug.
-
- [1] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=f87dfb1f11c01f2ccdc40d81e134cd06b32e28e8
- [2] http://www.daemon-systems.org/man/resolv.conf.5.html man page.
- [3] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;h=952f32af17e7fb49c4c1a305de673a13075bfaf5;hb=f87dfb1f11c01f2ccdc40d81e134cd06b32e28e8
- [4] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12734
-
-credentials.7
- Josh Triplett
- Cross-reference getgroups(2)
- Since credentials.7 discusses supplementary GIDs, it should
- reference getgroups(2).
-
-fanotify.7
- Heinrich Schuchardt
- Allow relative paths in example
- The current example code requires passing an absolute
- path to the mount to be watched.
-
- By passing AT_FDCWD to fanotify_mark it can use both
- absolute and relative paths.
- Heinrich Schuchardt
- fallocate(2) creates no events
- fallocate(2) should create FAN_MODIFY events but does not.
- Heinrich Schuchardt [Michael Kerrisk]
- fanotify notifies only events generated on the same mount
- Unfortunately, fanotify does not inform listeners for all paths
- under which a touched filesystem object is visible, but only the
- listener using the same path as the process touching the
- filesystem object.
- Heinrich Schuchardt
- Update BUGS to note bugs still not fixed in 3.17
- I bumped the Linux version number in the BUGS section to 3.17.
-
-inotify.7
- Heinrich Schuchardt
- fallocate(2) does not trigger inotify events
- Calling fallocate(2) does not result in inotify events.
-
-locale.7
- Marko Myllynen
- Improve LOCPATH description
- LOCPATH is ignored by privileged programs.
-
- Add locale archive references.
-
- Add FILES section.
-
-man-pages.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Laurent Georget]
- Clarify that SEE ALSO entries may refer to pages from other projects
-
-signal.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention other "slow devices"
- Reads from eventfd(2), signalfd(2), timerfd(2), inotify(7),
- and fanotify(7) file descriptors are also slow operations
- that are restartable.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Fix SO_RECVTIMEO/ SO_SENDTIMEO confusion in text
- Michael Kerrisk
- Since Linux 3.8, reads on inotify(7) file descriptors are restartable
- Michael Kerrisk
- inotify(7) reads no longer show the odd EINTR error after SIGCONT
- Since kernel 3.7, reads from inotify(7) file descriptors no longer
- show the (Linux oddity) behavior of failing with EINTR when the
- process resumes after a stop signal + SIGCONT.
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add sigreturn(2)
-
-unix.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Scott Harvey]
- Fix buglet in code snippet in BUGS section
-
-ld.so.8
- Carlos O'Donell
- Add --inhibit-cache option
- The dynamic loader has 6 options, only 5 are documented.
- This patch documents the sixth option i.e. `--inhibit-cache`.
- Jonathan Wakely [Siddhesh Poyarekar]
- Correct documentation of $ORIGIN
- As noted by Siddhesh:
-
- The ld.so man page says:
-
- $ORIGIN (or equivalently ${ORIGIN})
- This expands to the directory containing the
- application executable. Thus, an application located
- in somedir/app could be compiled with
-
- This is incorrect since it expands to the directory containing
- the DSO and not the application executable. This seems like
- deliberate behaviour in dl-object.c, so it needs to be fixed in
- the man page.
-
- See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26280738/what-is-the-equivalent-of-loader-path-for-rpath-specification-on-linux/26281226#26281226
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