-==================== Changes in man-pages-3.69 ====================
+==================== Changes in man-pages-4.07 ====================
Released: ????-??-??, Munich
in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
incorporated in changes in this release:
-Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
-Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup@redhat.com>
-Jeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>
-Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
-KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
-Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com>
-Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
-Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
-Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
-Qian Lei <qianl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
-Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
-Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
-Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
-Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
-iconv.1
- Marko Myllynen [Michael Kerrisk]
- New page for the iconv(1) command
-
-iconvconfig.8
- Marko Myllynen
- New page for iconvconfig(8)
-
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
-fcntl.2
- Jeff Layton, Michael Kerrisk
- Document open file description locks
- As provided by the fcntl() operations F_OFD_SETLK,
- F_OFD_SETLKW, and F_OFD_GETLK
-
-
-Changes to individual pages
----------------------------
-
-locale.1
- Marko Myllynen
- Add FILES section, add charmap(5) reference
- Marko Myllynen
- Align with recent charmap(5) / repertoiremap(5) changes
-
-execve.2
- Michael Kerrisk [NeilBrown]
- Before kernel 2.6.0, RLIMIT_NPROC had no effect for set*uid()
- Michael Kerrisk [Vasiliy Kulikov]
- RLIMIT_NPROC is checked only if preceded by set*uid()
- Michael Kerrisk [Vasiliy Kulikov, NeilBrown, KOSAKI Motohiro]
- Document EAGAIN error
- See also https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42704
-
-fcntl.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Detail the limitations of traditional (process-associated) locks
- Michael Kerrisk [Jeff Layton]
- Describe how to check whether the kernel supports a particular command
- Michael Kerrisk
- ERRORS: add EINVAL for invalid 'cmd'
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add para introducing advisory locks and noting existence of OFD locks
- Michael Kerrisk [Jeff Layton]
- Add notes on F_SETLKW deadlock detection and its limitations
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add an explicit note that mandatory locking is not in POSIX
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rewrite introductory paragraphs on mandatory locking
- Make the structure more logical, and also explicitly mention
- OFD locks.
- Michael Kerrisk [Jeff Layton]
- Reword discussion of mandatory lock bug a little
- Jeff Layton confirmed that the bug remains even in modern kernels.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Explain POSIX background to EACCES/EAGAIN error for F_GETLK
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add NOTES subhead for record locking and NFS
- Michael Kerrisk [NeilBrown]
- Note treatment of locks when an NFS client loses contact with the server
- Michael Kerrisk [NeilBrown]
- Refine discussion of locks when NFSv4 client loses contact with server
- Michael Kerrisk [Jeff Layton]
- nfsv4leasetime controls the "contact lost" interval for NFSv4
- Jeff Layton:
-
-flock.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- In some modern BSDs, fcntl() and flock() locks do interact
- So, reword and extend the discussion of this topic in NOTES.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Move NOTES text describing implementation of flock()
- Michael Kerrisk [NeilBrown]
- Add more details on NFS, including Linux 2.6.37 changes
- Also: move NOTES text describing interaction of fcntl()
- and flock() locks.
-
-fork.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add notes on inheritance of flock() and OFD locks across fork()
-
-lseek.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to open(2) for discussion of file descriptors and OFDs
-
-open.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rework and extend the discussion of open file descriptions
-
-open_by_handle_at.2
- Rasmus Villemoes
- Add reference to feature_test_macros(7)
-
-recvmmsg.2
- Rasmus Villemoes
- Add reference to feature_test_macros(7)
-
-remap_file_pages.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Kirill A. Shutemov]
- Note that remap_file_pages() is deprecated
-
-sendmmsg.2
- Rasmus Villemoes
- Add reference to feature_test_macros(7)
-
-seteuid.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- seteuid() and setegid() are implemented as library functions
- Michael Kerrisk
- Error checking should always be performed, even when caller is UID 0
-
-setresuid.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document EAGAIN error that can occur after kernel alloc_uid() failure
- Michael Kerrisk
- Since Linux 3.1, the EAGAIN case for RLIMIT_NPROC no longer occurs
- Michael Kerrisk
- Correct the description of the EAGAIN error
- Michael Kerrisk
- Error checking should always be performed, even when caller is UID 0
-
-setreuid.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document EAGAIN error that can occur after kernel alloc_uid() failure
- Michael Kerrisk
- Error checking should always be performed, even when caller is UID 0
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add EAGAIN error for hitting RLIMIT_NPROC limit
- Michael Kerrisk
- Since Linux 3.1, the EAGAIN case for RLIMIT_NPROC no longer occurs
-
-setuid.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document EAGAIN error that can occur after kernel alloc_uid() failure
- Michael Kerrisk
- Correct the description of the EAGAIN error
- Michael Kerrisk
- Error checking should always be performed, even when caller is UID 0
- Michael Kerrisk
- Since Linux 3.1, the EAGAIN case for RLIMIT_NPROC no longer occurs
-
-statfs.2
- Cyril Hrubis
- Update MAGIC constants
- Most of the updates are taken from /usr/include/linux/magic.h,
- some were found by grepping the Linux source code.
- Cyril Hrubis [Michael Kerrisk]
- fstatfs(2) was broken on file descriptors from pipe(2)
-
-syscalls.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that remap_file_pages() is deprecated
-
-basename.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
- The functions basename() and dirname() are thread safe.
-
-catgets.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function catgets() is thread safe.
-
-getdate.3
- Rasmus Villemoes
- Use blank definition of _GNU_SOURCE in example program
-
-getdirentries.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function getdirentries() is thread safe.
-getdtablesize.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function getdtablesize() is thread safe.
+New and changed links
+---------------------
-iconv.3
- Qian Lei [Peng Haitao]
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function iconv() is thread safe.
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add iconvconfig(8)
-lockf.3
- Qian Lei [Peng Haitao]
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function lockf() is thread safe.
+Global changes
+--------------
-malloc_get_state.3
- Rasmus Villemoes
- SYNOPSIS: use correct header
- The nonstandard functions malloc_set_state() and
- malloc_get_state() are provided by <malloc.h> not <stdlib.h>.
-malloc_usable_size.3
- Qian Lei
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function malloc_usable_size() is thread safe.
-
-matherr.3
- Qian Lei [Peng Haitao]
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function matherr() is thread safe.
-
-mkdtemp.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function mkdtemp() is thread safe.
-
-mkstemp.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
- The functions mkstemp(), mkostemp(), mkstemps() and mkostemps()
- are thread safe.
-
-mq_close.3
- Qian Lei
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function mq_close() is thread safe.
-
-mq_getattr.3
- Qian Lei
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The functions mq_getattr() and mq_setattr() are thread safe.
-
-mq_open.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function mq_open() is thread safe.
-
-mq_receive.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
- The functions mq_receive() and mq_timedreceive() are thread safe.
-
-mq_send.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
- The functions mq_send() and mq_timedsend() are thread safe.
-
-mq_unlink.3
- Qian Lei
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function mq_unlink() is thread safe.
-
-posix_fallocate.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function posix_fallocate() is thread safe.
-
-posix_openpt.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function posix_openpt() is thread safe.
-
-siginterrupt.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
- The function siginterrupt() is not thread safe.
-
-system.3
- Peng Haitao
- ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
- The function system() is thread safe.
-
-charmap.5
- Marko Myllynen
- Update to match current glibc
- charmap(5) was outdated, bring it to closer to reality by fixing
- syntax descriptions to match current glibc code and practices,
- adding missing options, removing obsolete comments and references,
- and removing now incorrect examples.
-
-locale.5
- Marko Myllynen
- Clarify AM/PM settings a bit
- localedef(1) complains if really undefined, should be empty instead.
- Also: add some SEE ALSO references.
- Marko Myllynen
- Document glibc conventions regarding days and week
- Based on existing practice and glibc community wiki page at
- https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Locales
-
-proc.5
- Michael Kerrisk [Jan Chaloupka, Walter Harms]
- Add a brief description of /proc/fs
-
-repertoiremap.5
- Marko Myllynen
- New page for repertoiremap(5)
- Rather obsolete feature but localedef(1) refers to repertoiremaps.
-
-bootparam.7
- Petr Gajdos
- Describe 'rootflags' and 'rootdelay' kernel parameters
- Patch based on text from Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
-
-charsets.7
- Marko Myllynen
- Update to reflect past developments
- Rewrite the introduction to make Unicode's prominence more obvious.
- Reformulate parts of the text to reflect current Unicode world.
- Minor clarification for ASCII/ISO sections, some other minor fixes.
- Marko Myllynen
- List CJK encodings in the order of C, J, K
-
-environ.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add env(1), printenv(1), ld.so(8)
-
-locale.7
- Marko Myllynen
- Add some SEE ALSO references
-
-man-pages.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that .TH 'date' field is nowadays automatically updated by scripts
-
-signal.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Describe EINTR semantics for recvmmsg(2)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify text describing EINTR semantics for socket interfaces
-
-unicode.7
- Marko Myllynen
- Update to reflect past developments
- The unicode(7) page will look more modern with few small changes:
-
- - drop old BUGS section, editors cope with UTF-8 ok these days,
- and perhaps the state-of-the-art is better described elsewhere
- anyway than in a man page
- - drop old suggestion about avoiding combined characters
- - refer to LANANA for Linux zone, add registry file reference
- - drop a reference to an inactive/dead mailing list
- - update some reference URLs
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
-utf-8.7
- Marko Myllynen
- Drop an old comment about UTF-8 replacing ISO 8859
- And add locale(1) under SEE ALSO.
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