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5 years agoprctl.2: Rework the PR_SET_PDEATHSIG description a little, for easier readability
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 09:47:21 +0000 (10:47 +0100)] 
prctl.2: Rework the PR_SET_PDEATHSIG description a little, for easier readability

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoprctl.2: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 09:38:07 +0000 (10:38 +0100)] 
prctl.2: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoptrace.2: BUGS: ptrace() may set errno to zero
Jann Horn [Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:44:41 +0000 (17:44 +0200)] 
ptrace.2: BUGS: ptrace() may set errno to zero

ptrace() with requests PTRACE_PEEKTEXT, PTRACE_PEEKDATA and
PTRACE_PEEKUSER can set errno to zero. AFAICS this is for a good
reason (so that you can tell the difference between a successful
PEEK with a result of -1 and a failed PEEK, even if you forget to
clear errno yourself), but it technically violates the rules
described in the errno.3 manpage.

glibc snippet from sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ptrace.c:

  res = INLINE_SYSCALL (ptrace, 4, request, pid, addr, data);
  if (res >= 0 && request > 0 && request < 4)
    {
      __set_errno (0);
      return ret;
    }

reproducer:

$ cat ptrace_test.c
char foobar_data[4] = "ABCD";
int main(void) {
  pid_t child = fork();
  if (child == -1) err(1, "fork");
  if (child == 0) {
    if (prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG, SIGKILL)) err(1, "prctl");
    while (1) sleep(1);
  }
  int status;
  if (ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, child, NULL, NULL)) err(1, "attach");
  if (waitpid(child, &status, 0) != child) err(1, "wait");
  errno = EINVAL;
  unsigned int res = ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKDATA, child, foobar_data, NULL);
  printf("errno after PEEKDATA: %d\n", errno);
  printf("PEEKDATA result: 0x%x\n", res);
}
$ gcc -o ptrace_test ptrace_test.c -Wall
$ ./ptrace_test
errno after PEEKDATA: 0
PEEKDATA result: 0x44434241

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoclone.2: Pending CLONE_NEWPID prevents thread creation
Jann Horn [Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:14:41 +0000 (17:14 +0200)] 
clone.2: Pending CLONE_NEWPID prevents thread creation

See copy_process() in kernel/fork.c:

if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) {
if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWPID)) ||
    (task_active_pid_ns(current) !=
current->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children))
return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
}

current->nsproxy->pid_ns_for_children is where unshare(CLONE_NEWPID)
stashes the pending namespace.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agofanotify.7: wfix
Anthony Iliopoulos [Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:54:31 +0000 (17:54 +0100)] 
fanotify.7: wfix

Use "FAN_OPEN_PERM" consistently rather than "FAN_PERM_OPEN".

Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiopoulos@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosystem.3: Note that system() can fail for the same reasons as fork(2)
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 07:02:01 +0000 (08:02 +0100)] 
system.3: Note that system() can fail for the same reasons as fork(2)

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosystem.3: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 24 Nov 2018 07:00:34 +0000 (08:00 +0100)] 
system.3: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosystem.3: Mention that 'errno' is set on error
Arkadiusz Drabczyk [Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:59:17 +0000 (23:59 +0200)] 
system.3: Mention that 'errno' is set on error

Corresponding system.3p already mentions that.
Tested with glibc and musl.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoproc.5: Minor clean-ups for Alan Jenkins' patch
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:35:49 +0000 (14:35 +0100)] 
proc.5: Minor clean-ups for Alan Jenkins' patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoproc.5: wfix
Michael Kerrisk [Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:32:42 +0000 (14:32 +0100)] 
proc.5: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoproc.5: Vmalloc information is no longer calculated (Linux 4.4)
Alan Jenkins [Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:31:31 +0000 (14:31 +0000)] 
proc.5: Vmalloc information is no longer calculated (Linux 4.4)

See Linux commit a5ad88ce8c7fae7ddc72ee49a11a75aa837788e0,
"mm: get rid of 'vmalloc_info' from /proc/meminfo".

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agopid_namespaces.7: Clarify the semantics for the adoption of orphaned processes
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Nov 2018 15:23:28 +0000 (16:23 +0100)] 
pid_namespaces.7: Clarify the semantics for the adoption of orphaned processes

Because of setns() semantics, the parent of a process may reside
in the outer PID namespace. If that parent terminates, then the
child is adopted by the "init" in the outer PID namespace (rather
than the "init" of the PID namespace of the child).

Thus, in a scenario such as the following, if process M
terminates, P is adopted by the init process in the initial
PID namespace, and if P terminates, Q is adopted by the init
process in the inner PID namespace.

    +---------------------------------------------+
    | Initial PID NS                              |
    |                           +---------------+ |
    |  +-+                      | inner PID NS  | |
    |  |1|                      |               | |
    |  +-+                      |    +-+        | |
    |                           |    |1|        | |
    |                           |    +-+        | |
    |                           |               | |
    |  +-+   setns(), fork()    |    +-+        | |
    |  |M|----------------------+--> |P|        | |
    |  +-+                      |    +-+        | |
    |                           |     | fork()  | |
    |                           |     v         | |
    |                           |    +-+        | |
    |                           |    |Q|        | |
    |                           |    +-+        | |
    |                           +---------------+ |
    +---------------------------------------------+

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoclone.2, prctl.2, st.4, proc.5: Change references to '2.6.0-test*' series kernels...
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Nov 2018 12:06:53 +0000 (13:06 +0100)] 
clone.2, prctl.2, st.4, proc.5: Change references to '2.6.0-test*' series kernels to just '2.6.0'

The extra detail has little of noting with -test 2.6.0
added a particular feature has little value these days,
and is likely to confuse some readers who don't know
(and probably don't care) about the historical details.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agogetgroups.2: Note that a process can drop all groups with: setgroups(0, NULL)
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:34:36 +0000 (12:34 +0100)] 
getgroups.2: Note that a process can drop all groups with: setgroups(0, NULL)

Checking the FreeBSD source code, there's explicit support for
this to accommodate non-BSD systems (such as Linux).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosignal.7: Unify signal lists into a signal table that embeds standards info
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 17 Nov 2018 09:10:30 +0000 (10:10 +0100)] 
signal.7: Unify signal lists into a signal table that embeds standards info

Having the signals listed in three different tables reduces
readability, and would require more table splits if future
standards specify other signals.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosignal.7: Insert standards info into tables
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 17 Nov 2018 08:58:37 +0000 (09:58 +0100)] 
signal.7: Insert standards info into tables

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosignal.7: Place signal numbers in a separate table
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 17 Nov 2018 08:29:46 +0000 (09:29 +0100)] 
signal.7: Place signal numbers in a separate table

The current tables of signal information are unwieldy,
as they try to cram in too much information.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosignal.7: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 17 Nov 2018 07:59:02 +0000 (08:59 +0100)] 
signal.7: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agofutex.2: Make the example use C11 atomics rather than GCC builtins
Benjamin Peterson [Wed, 14 Nov 2018 06:53:41 +0000 (22:53 -0800)] 
futex.2: Make the example use C11 atomics rather than GCC builtins

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agogetaddrinfo.3: Fix off-by-one error in example client program
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 17 Nov 2018 07:11:07 +0000 (08:11 +0100)] 
getaddrinfo.3: Fix off-by-one error in example client program

Reported-by: Eric Sanchis <eric.sanchis@iut-rodez.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agopthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np.3: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 17 Nov 2018 06:41:18 +0000 (07:41 +0100)] 
pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np.3: tfix

Reported-by: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agopthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np.3: Remove bug notes
Carlos O'Donell [Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:03:41 +0000 (10:03 -0500)] 
pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np.3: Remove bug notes

The notes in pthread_rwlockattr_setkind_np.3 imply there is a bug
in glibc's implementation of PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NP (a
non-portable constant anyway), but this is not true. The
implementation of PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NP is made almost
impossible by the POSIX standard requirement that reader locks be
allowed to be recursive, and that requirement makes writer
preference deadlock without an impossibly complex requirement that
we track all reader locks. Therefore the only sensible solution
was to add PTHREAD_RWLOCK_PREFER_WRITER_NONRECURSIVE_NP and
disallow recursive reader locks if you want writer preference.

This patch removes the bug description and documents the current
state and recommendations for glibc. I have also updated bug 7057
with this information, answering Steven Munroe's almost 10 year
old question :-) I hope Steven is enjoying his much earned
retirement.

Should we move the glibc discussion to some footnote? Some libc
may be able to implement the requirement to avoid deadlocks in the
future, but I doubt it (fundamental CS stuff).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoioctl_userfaultfd.2, madvise.2, memfd_create.2, migrate_pages.2, mmap.2, shmget.2...
Mike Rapoport [Fri, 16 Nov 2018 21:14:56 +0000 (13:14 -0800)] 
ioctl_userfaultfd.2, madvise.2, memfd_create.2, migrate_pages.2, mmap.2, shmget.2, subpage_prot.2, userfaultfd.2, malloc.3, proc.5, sysfs.5, tmpfs.5: Update paths for in-kernel memory management documentation files

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agocapabilities.7: Update URL for libcap tarballs
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 17 Nov 2018 06:03:07 +0000 (07:03 +0100)] 
capabilities.7: Update URL for libcap tarballs

The previous location does not seem to be getting updated.
(For example, at the time of this commit, libcap-2.26
had been out for two months, but was not present at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoprctl.2: Note libcap(3) APIs for operating on ambient capability set
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:45:10 +0000 (21:45 +0100)] 
prctl.2: Note libcap(3) APIs for operating on ambient capability set

(However, the libcap APIs do not yet seem to have
manual pages...)

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoprctl.2: Mention libcap APIs for operating on capability bounding set
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:32:45 +0000 (21:32 +0100)] 
prctl.2: Mention libcap APIs for operating on capability bounding set

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosyscalls.2: Update syscall list for Linux 4.18
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 11 Nov 2018 07:02:31 +0000 (08:02 +0100)] 
syscalls.2: Update syscall list for Linux 4.18

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosystem.3: Use '(char *) NULL' rather than '(char *) 0'
Michael Kerrisk [Sat, 10 Nov 2018 06:15:40 +0000 (07:15 +0100)] 
system.3: Use '(char *) NULL' rather than '(char *) 0'

Reported-by: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoioctl_userfaultfd.2, userfaultfd.2: wfix
Anthony Iliopoulos [Fri, 9 Nov 2018 16:23:59 +0000 (16:23 +0000)] 
ioctl_userfaultfd.2, userfaultfd.2: wfix

Use "UFFDIO_ZEROPAGE" consistently rather than "UFFDIO_ZERO".

Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiopoulos@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosystem.3: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 9 Nov 2018 22:17:15 +0000 (23:17 +0100)] 
system.3: ffix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosystem.3: wfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 9 Nov 2018 22:14:27 +0000 (23:14 +0100)] 
system.3: wfix

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agouser_namespaces.7: tfix
Jakub Wilk [Fri, 9 Nov 2018 08:25:15 +0000 (09:25 +0100)] 
user_namespaces.7: tfix

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agopivot_root.2: Minor fixes to Elvira Khabirova's patch
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 9 Nov 2018 07:54:20 +0000 (08:54 +0100)] 
pivot_root.2: Minor fixes to Elvira Khabirova's patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agopivot_root.2: Explain the initramfs case and point to switch_root(8).
Elvira Khabirova [Sun, 30 Sep 2018 15:24:23 +0000 (17:24 +0200)] 
pivot_root.2: Explain the initramfs case and point to switch_root(8).

Based on text from Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt.

Signed-off-by: Elvira Khabirova <lineprinter@altlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoresolver.3: Add documentation of res_nclose()
Michael Becker [Fri, 9 Nov 2018 07:47:33 +0000 (08:47 +0100)] 
resolver.3: Add documentation of res_nclose()

I found the neccessary information in the glibc sources.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agostrfry.3: Remove incorrect reference to rand(3)
Keith Thompson [Fri, 9 Nov 2018 03:55:55 +0000 (04:55 +0100)] 
strfry.3: Remove incorrect reference to rand(3)

The strfry(3) function does not use rand(). The original version
from 1995 did, but it was changed to use a different PRNG in glibc
commit 4770745624b7f7f25623f1f10d46a4c4d6aec25c, 1996-12-04.

This C program demonstrates the behavior. By not calling srand(),
it gets the same values for successive calls to rand(), but
strfry() returns a different value each time the program is run.
If strfry() called srand(), it would alter the sequence of numbers
return by rand().

int main(void) {
    printf("%d\n", rand());
    char alphabet[] = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
    puts(strfry(alphabet));
    printf("%d\n", rand());
}

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosignal.7: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 9 Nov 2018 03:48:59 +0000 (04:48 +0100)] 
signal.7: tfix

Reported-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosignal.7: Reorder the architectures in the signal number lists
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 7 Nov 2018 20:41:34 +0000 (21:41 +0100)] 
signal.7: Reorder the architectures in the signal number lists

x86 and ARM are the most common architectures, but currently
are in the second subfield in the signal number lists.
Instead, swap that info with subfield 1, so the most
common architectures are first in the list.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosignal.7: Add signal numbers for parisc
Helge Deller [Wed, 7 Nov 2018 06:58:55 +0000 (07:58 +0100)] 
signal.7: Add signal numbers for parisc

This patch adds the signal numbers for parisc to the signal(7) man page.

Those parisc-specific values for the various signals are valid since the
Linux kernel upstream commit ("parisc: Reduce SIGRTMIN from 37 to 32 to
behave like other Linux architectures") during development of kernel 3.18:
http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1f25df2eff5b25f52c139d3ff31bc883eee9a0ab

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosyscalls.2: parisc Linux does not any longer emulate HP-UX
Helge Deller [Tue, 6 Nov 2018 21:27:23 +0000 (22:27 +0100)] 
syscalls.2: parisc Linux does not any longer emulate HP-UX

Initially it was planned that the parisc linux port would natively
support 32-bit HP-UX binaries, but this compatibility was never
reached and finally dropped with Linux kernel 3.14.

With that background, drop parisc from the list of of platforms
which supports it's proprietary operating-system.

Additional notes from mtk:

The most relevant commit from the Linux 3.14 change log was:

[[
commit f5a408d53edef3af07ac7697b8bc54a755628450
Author: Guy Martin <gmsoft@tuxicoman.be>
Date:   Thu Jan 16 17:17:53 2014 +0100

    parisc: Make EWOULDBLOCK be equal to EAGAIN on parisc

    On Linux, only parisc uses a different value for EWOULDBLOCK which
    causes a lot of troubles for applications not checking for both values.
    Since the hpux compat is long dead, make EWOULDBLOCK behave the same as
    all other architectures.
]]

Additional notes from Helge:

The patch above is the initial and most important one with which
we stopped the HP-UX compatibility.

Then, with this commit in kernel 3.18 there is no way back:
"parisc: Reduce SIGRTMIN from 37 to 32 to behave like
other Linux architectures"
commit 1f25df2eff5b25f52c139d3ff31bc883eee9a0ab

And in kernel 4.0 we finally dropped the HP-UX compat layer
from Linux kernel source code with the commit series
"parisc: hpux - Drop support for HP-UX binaries":
commit 04c1614977168fb8f002e2d81f704eeabe0c5ebd

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agosyscall.2: parisc needs care with syscall parameters
Helge Deller [Tue, 6 Nov 2018 21:39:59 +0000 (22:39 +0100)] 
syscall.2: parisc needs care with syscall parameters

On parisc one needs to take care of the 32-bit calling conventions
with 64-bit syscall parameters on a 32-bit kernel. So on parisc we
suffer from the same issues like ARM, PowerPC and Xtensa.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agocgroups.7: Minor fix: bump kernel version to 4.19 in a couple of points
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 7 Nov 2018 20:14:57 +0000 (21:14 +0100)] 
cgroups.7: Minor fix: bump kernel version to 4.19 in a couple of points

The stated points still hold true as at Linux 4.1.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoio_submit.2: tfix
Josh Gao [Tue, 6 Nov 2018 22:51:38 +0000 (23:51 +0100)] 
io_submit.2: tfix

Signed-off-by: Josh Gao <jmgao@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoiconv.1: SEE ALSO: add uconv(1)
Marko Myllynen [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 20:15:23 +0000 (22:15 +0200)] 
iconv.1: SEE ALSO: add uconv(1)

Refer to uconv(1) in iconv(1) manual page, it is helpful
transliterating e.g. Cyrillic to Latin:

echo <some-cyrillic-text> | uconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 -x cyrillic-latin

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5 years agoproc.5: ffix: break /proc/[pid]/task text into smaller paragraphs
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 20:57:20 +0000 (21:57 +0100)] 
proc.5: ffix: break /proc/[pid]/task text into smaller paragraphs

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5 years agoproc.5: srcfix
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 20:22:19 +0000 (21:22 +0100)] 
proc.5: srcfix

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5 years agoproc.5: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 20:21:50 +0000 (21:21 +0100)] 
proc.5: tfix

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5 years agoproc.5: Minor reworking of description of /proc/[tid] directories
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 20:14:25 +0000 (21:14 +0100)] 
proc.5: Minor reworking of description of /proc/[tid] directories

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5 years agoproc.5: wfix
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 20:02:18 +0000 (21:02 +0100)] 
proc.5: wfix

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5 years agorename.2: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 19:37:20 +0000 (20:37 +0100)] 
rename.2: tfix

Reported-by: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agorename.2: wfix: s/shmem/tmpfs/ in discussion of RENAME_NOREPLACE
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 16:37:39 +0000 (17:37 +0100)] 
rename.2: wfix: s/shmem/tmpfs/ in discussion of RENAME_NOREPLACE

Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agorename.2: XFS support for RENAME_NOREPLACE was added in Linux 4.0
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 16:33:10 +0000 (17:33 +0100)] 
rename.2: XFS support for RENAME_NOREPLACE was added in Linux 4.0

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5 years agorename.2: Rework list of supported filesystems for RENAME_NOREPLACE
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 16:24:19 +0000 (17:24 +0100)] 
rename.2: Rework list of supported filesystems for RENAME_NOREPLACE

There was probably a little too much detail in
Lukas Werkmeister's patch. Simplify, by removing a few
file systems, and arrange the information as a bulleted
list for easier readability.

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5 years agorename.2: Add kernel versions for RENAME_NOREPLACE support
Lucas Werkmeister [Thu, 13 Sep 2018 22:37:59 +0000 (00:37 +0200)] 
rename.2: Add kernel versions for RENAME_NOREPLACE support

The RENAME_NOREPLACE flag was added with the initial release of the
renameat2 syscall in Linux 3.15, but support for most filesystems was
only added in later versions, and some may still not support it.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Werkmeister <mail@lucaswerkmeister.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agovdso.7: tfix
Jakub Wilk [Sat, 22 Sep 2018 10:24:43 +0000 (12:24 +0200)] 
vdso.7: tfix

Escape hyphens; use \(aq for ASCII apostrophes.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
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5 years agogetmntent.3: Clarify that endmntent() should be used rather than fclose()
Elliot Hughes [Wed, 3 Oct 2018 20:00:28 +0000 (13:00 -0700)] 
getmntent.3: Clarify that endmntent() should be used rather than fclose()

This doesn't actually matter on any C library I know of --- they
all just do a NULL check and forward to fclose(3). (The actual
mistake I saw was someone not realizing that they had to call
*anything*.)

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5 years agoferror.3: Warn about closing the result of fileno()
Elliot Hughes [Mon, 1 Oct 2018 17:33:21 +0000 (10:33 -0700)] 
ferror.3: Warn about closing the result of fileno()

Since adding checking to Android's bionic for file descriptor
double-closes, we've found that the most common cause of these
bugs is incorrect use of fileno(3). There appears to be a common
misconception that it transfers ownership of the file descriptor
to the caller.

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5 years agogetrlimit.2: Resource limits are process-wide attributes shared by all threads
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 30 Apr 2018 10:31:41 +0000 (12:31 +0200)] 
getrlimit.2: Resource limits are process-wide attributes shared by all threads

This was already noted in pthreads(7), but bears repeating here.

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5 years agoproc.5: Document /proc/PID/status CoreDumping field
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 11:37:44 +0000 (12:37 +0100)] 
proc.5: Document /proc/PID/status CoreDumping field

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5 years agoproc.5: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 11:35:30 +0000 (12:35 +0100)] 
proc.5: tfix

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5 years agoproc.5: /proc/[pid]/status VmPMD field was removed in Linux 4.15
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 11:30:25 +0000 (12:30 +0100)] 
proc.5: /proc/[pid]/status VmPMD field was removed in Linux 4.15

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5 years agoproc.5: Document /proc/Meminfo LazyFree field
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 11:25:57 +0000 (12:25 +0100)] 
proc.5: Document /proc/Meminfo LazyFree field

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5 years agoproc.5: Fix kernel source pathname for soft-dirty documentation
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 11:21:46 +0000 (12:21 +0100)] 
proc.5: Fix kernel source pathname for soft-dirty documentation

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5 years agoproc.5: Document /proc/meminfo KReclaimable field
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 11:05:08 +0000 (12:05 +0100)] 
proc.5: Document /proc/meminfo KReclaimable field

Added in Linux 4.20.

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5 years agomount.2: Document EROFS for read-only filesystems
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:15:23 +0000 (10:15 +0100)] 
mount.2: Document EROFS for read-only filesystems

See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200649

Reported-by: Harry Mallon <hjmallon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agomount.2: EACCES: note some reasons why a filesystem may be read-only
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 09:10:43 +0000 (10:10 +0100)] 
mount.2: EACCES: note some reasons why a filesystem may be read-only

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5 years agoprctl.2: Add some further historical details on PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 07:21:54 +0000 (08:21 +0100)] 
prctl.2: Add some further historical details on PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE

Also some minor tweaks to Benjamin Peterson's patch.

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5 years agoprctl.2: PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE may now be used as many times as desired
Benjamin Peterson [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 02:21:47 +0000 (18:21 -0800)] 
prctl.2: PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE may now be used as many times as desired

The original implementation of PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE only allowed it
to be used once in a process's lifetime. This restriction was
lifted in Linux commit 3fb4afd9a504c2386b8435028d43283216bf588e
("prctl: remove one-shot limitation for changing exe link").

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5 years agoprctl.2: wfix: Remove a redundant sentence
Michael Kerrisk [Mon, 5 Nov 2018 07:14:44 +0000 (08:14 +0100)] 
prctl.2: wfix: Remove a redundant sentence

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5 years agoproc.5: Document /proc/[pid]
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 22:56:10 +0000 (23:56 +0100)] 
proc.5: Document /proc/[pid]

See also https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201441

Reported-by: Philip Dumont <phil@solidstatescientific.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agoproc.5: Add an overview section describing the groups of files under /proc
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 22:04:52 +0000 (23:04 +0100)] 
proc.5: Add an overview section describing the groups of files under /proc

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5 years agolirc.4: Clarify the description LIRC_SET_REC_TIMEOUT
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 19:23:27 +0000 (20:23 +0100)] 
lirc.4: Clarify the description LIRC_SET_REC_TIMEOUT

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5 years agomsgctl.2, semctl.2, shmctl.2: Some small wording improvements for Davidlohr Bueso...
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 16:28:24 +0000 (17:28 +0100)] 
msgctl.2, semctl.2, shmctl.2: Some small wording improvements for Davidlohr Bueso's patch

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5 years agomsgctl.2: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 16:19:36 +0000 (17:19 +0100)] 
msgctl.2: tfix

Reported-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agomsgctl.2, semctl.2, shmctl.2: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 16:17:07 +0000 (17:17 +0100)] 
msgctl.2, semctl.2, shmctl.2: ffix

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5 years agomsgctl.2, semctl.2, shmctl.2: Document STAT_ANY commands
Davidlohr Bueso [Tue, 20 Mar 2018 18:55:03 +0000 (11:55 -0700)] 
msgctl.2, semctl.2, shmctl.2: Document STAT_ANY commands

Reported-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agolirc.4: Minor language fix-ups
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 11:13:32 +0000 (12:13 +0100)] 
lirc.4: Minor language fix-ups

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5 years agolirc.4: Remove crufty text
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 11:00:30 +0000 (12:00 +0100)] 
lirc.4: Remove crufty text

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5 years agolirc.4: Minor wording and formatting fixes
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 10:59:58 +0000 (11:59 +0100)] 
lirc.4: Minor wording and formatting fixes

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agolirc.4: tfix
Sean Young [Sat, 3 Nov 2018 11:18:18 +0000 (11:18 +0000)] 
lirc.4: tfix

Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agolirc.4: Document remaining ioctl (LIRC_GET_REC_TIMEOUT)
Sean Young [Sat, 3 Nov 2018 11:18:17 +0000 (11:18 +0000)] 
lirc.4: Document remaining ioctl (LIRC_GET_REC_TIMEOUT)

Now all ioctls are documented.

Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agocgroups.7: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Sun, 4 Nov 2018 10:29:06 +0000 (11:29 +0100)] 
cgroups.7: tfix

Reported-by: Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agouser_namespaces.7: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 12:52:24 +0000 (13:52 +0100)] 
user_namespaces.7: ffix

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5 years agolp.4: ffix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 12:37:43 +0000 (13:37 +0100)] 
lp.4: ffix

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5 years agonamespaces.7: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 12:32:25 +0000 (13:32 +0100)] 
namespaces.7: tfix

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5 years agolirc.4: wfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 12:02:30 +0000 (13:02 +0100)] 
lirc.4: wfix

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5 years agolirc.4: wfix
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:38:10 +0000 (12:38 +0100)] 
lirc.4: wfix

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5 years agolirc.4: Document error returns more explicitly
Sean Young [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:04:35 +0000 (11:04 +0000)] 
lirc.4: Document error returns more explicitly

Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agolirc.4: Minor fix-ups for Sean Young's previous patch
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:36:09 +0000 (12:36 +0100)] 
lirc.4: Minor fix-ups for Sean Young's previous patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agolirc.4: Both ioctls are supported if LIRC_CAN_SET_REC_CARRIER_RANGE is set
Sean Young [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:04:34 +0000 (11:04 +0000)] 
lirc.4: Both ioctls are supported if LIRC_CAN_SET_REC_CARRIER_RANGE is set

Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agolirc.4: LIRC_CAN_SET_REC_DUTY_CYCLE_RANGE was never supported
Sean Young [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:04:33 +0000 (11:04 +0000)] 
lirc.4: LIRC_CAN_SET_REC_DUTY_CYCLE_RANGE was never supported

No driver ever supported such a thing.

Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
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5 years agolirc.4: Minor reworking of Sean Young's LIRC_SET_REC_TIMEOUT patch
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:31:44 +0000 (12:31 +0100)] 
lirc.4: Minor reworking of Sean Young's LIRC_SET_REC_TIMEOUT patch

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agolirc.4: Timeout reports are enabled by default
Sean Young [Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:04:32 +0000 (11:04 +0000)] 
lirc.4: Timeout reports are enabled by default

Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>
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5 years agolockf.3: ERRORS: add EINTR
Ian Turner [Thu, 1 Nov 2018 18:44:35 +0000 (14:44 -0400)] 
lockf.3: ERRORS: add EINTR

Ian Turner: The exact return calls are at the discretion of the
underlying VFS, but I'm pretty sure that EINTR is a possibility.
Or, if it's not, then the flock() manpage should be amended
accordingly, since the two share the same underlying
implementation.

mtk: lockf(3) is implemented on top of fcntl() locking, so
EINTR is of course a possibility.

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5 years agobpf.2: SEE ALSO: add bpf-helpers(7)
Quentin Monnet [Thu, 1 Nov 2018 20:23:56 +0000 (21:23 +0100)] 
bpf.2: SEE ALSO: add bpf-helpers(7)

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5 years agocapabilities.7: Minor fixes to Marcus Gelderie's patch
Michael Kerrisk [Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:07:49 +0000 (21:07 +0100)] 
capabilities.7: Minor fixes to Marcus Gelderie's patch

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5 years agocapabilities.7: Mention header for SECBIT constants
Marcus Gelderie [Wed, 31 Oct 2018 09:57:49 +0000 (10:57 +0100)] 
capabilities.7: Mention header for SECBIT constants

Mention that the named constants (SECBIT_KEEP_CAPS and others)
are available only if the linux/securebits.h user-space header
is included.

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5 years agommap.2: tfix
Michael Kerrisk [Thu, 1 Nov 2018 17:23:33 +0000 (18:23 +0100)] 
mmap.2: tfix

Reported-by: Thomas Posch <kernel.org@online.posch.name>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agozic.8: Sync from tzdb upstream
Paul Eggert [Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:52:37 +0000 (12:52 -0700)] 
zic.8: Sync from tzdb upstream

Make zic.8 a copy of the upstream tzdb version, except that
the tzdb version's first line is replaced by man-pages
boilerplate, and omit features introduced after 2017b
(the most recent merge to glibc).

This has the following effect:

Document --version, --help.

Document new -v warnings.

Remove -y.

Document that input should be text files, and similar restrictions
on names.

Document negative DST.

Document what is meant by "white space".

Do some minor reformatting.

Use .B for as-is keywords, like commands.

New section "EXTENDED EXAMPLE".

Omit some changes that were made on the man-pages side, notably by
changing some "timezone"s back to the preferred-upstream "time
zone" when talking about traditional time zones as opposed to
POSIX timezone settings.  Also, fix some formatting glitches.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
5 years agozdump.8: Sync from tzdb upstream
Paul Eggert [Wed, 27 Jun 2018 19:52:36 +0000 (12:52 -0700)] 
zdump.8: Sync from tzdb upstream

Make zdump.8 a copy of the upstream tzdb version, except that
the tzdb version's first line is replaced by man-pages
boilerplate.

This has the following effect:

Document new options -i, -t, -V.

New section LIMITATIONS.

Do some minor reformatting.

Omit some changes that were made on the man-pages side, notably by
changing some "timezone"s back to the preferred-upstream "time
zone" when talking about traditional time zones as opposed to
POSIX timezone settings.  Also, fix some formatting glitches.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>