-==================== Changes in man-pages-4.09 ====================
+==================== Changes in man-pages-?.?? ====================
-Released: 2016-12-12, Munich
-
-
-Contributors
-------------
-
-The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
-in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
-incorporated in changes in this release:
-
-Afzal Mohammed <afzal.mohd.ma@gmail.com>
-Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
-Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
-Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
-Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>
-Daniel Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
-Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
-Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
-Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
-Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
-Dr. Tobias Quathamer <toddy@debian.org>
-Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com>
-Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
-Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
-Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
-Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
-Igor Liferenko <igor.liferenko@gmail.com>
-Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
-Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
-Jeremy Harris <jgh@redhat.com>
-Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
-Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
-Laurent Georget <laurent.georget@supelec.fr>
-Laurent Georget <laurent@lgeorget.eu>
-Marcos Mello <marcosfrm@gmail.com>
-Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@gmail.com>
-Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
-Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
-Miroslav Koskar <mk@mkoskar.com>
-Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>
-Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
-Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>
-Piotr Kwapulinski <kwapulinski.piotr@gmail.com>
-Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
-Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
-Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
-Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
-Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
-Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-Wang Long <long.wanglong@huawei.com>
-Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
-Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
-
-Apologies if I missed anyone!
+Released: ????-??-??, ??Location??
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
-pkey_alloc.2
- Dave Hansen [Michael Kerrisk]
- New page documenting pkey_alloc(2) and pkey_free(2)
-
-pthread_getattr_default_np.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page documenting pthread_getattr_default_np(3) and pthread_setattr_default_np(3)
-
-strfromd.3
- Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
- New page documenting strfromd(3), strfromf(3), and strfroml(3)
- The ISO/IEC TS 18661-1 specifies the strfrom() class
- of functions that convert a float-point value to string.
-
-fuse.4
- Keno Fischer [Michael Kerrisk]
- New page describing /dev/fuse
- This is my writeup of a basic description of /dev/fuse after
- playing with it for a few hours today. It is of course woefully
- incomplete, and since I neither have a use case nor am working
- on this code, I will not be in a position to expand it in the
- near future. However, I'm hoping this could still serve as a
- handy reference for others looking at this interface.
-
- [mtk: Notwithstanding the incompleteness of this page,
- it's a good base for future extension.]
-
-tmpfs.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page documenting the tmpfs filesystem
-
-pkeys.7
- Dave Hansen [Michael Kerrisk]
- New page with overview of Memory Protection Keys
-
-random.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Theodore Ts'o, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos, Laurent Georget]
- New page providing an overview of interfaces for obtaining randomness
- Contains material extracted from getrandom(2) and random(4),
- as well as new material.
-
-sock_diag.7
- Pavel Emelyanov, Dmitry V. Levin
- New page documenting NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG interface
-
-close.2
-getpriority.2
-nice.2
-timer_create.2
-timerfd_create.2
-random.4
-elf.5
-proc.5
-sched.7
- Various authors
- These pages also saw substantial updates, as described under
- "Changes to individual pages".
-
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
-mmap.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add (much) more detail on MAP_GROWSDOWN
-
-mprotect.2
- Dave Hansen
- Document the new pkey_mprotect() system call
- Eugene Syromyatnikov
- Document PROT_SEM, PROT_SAO, PROT_GROWSUP, and PROT_GROWSDOWN
-
-prctl.2
- Eugene Syromyatnikov
- Document PR_SET_FP_MODE and PR_GET_FP_MODE
-
-perf_event_open.2
- Vince Weaver
- PERF_RECORD_SWITCH support
- Linux 4.3 introduced two new record types for recording context
- switches: PERF_RECORD_SWITCH and PERF_RECORD_SWITCH_CPU_WIDE.
- Vince Weaver
- Add PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_CALL branch sample type
- Vince Weaver
- PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP branch_sample_type
- Linux 4.2 added a new branch_sample_type: PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_IND_JUMP
- Vince Weaver
- Document PERF_RECORD_MISC_PROC_MAP_PARSE_TIMEOUT
- Vince Weaver
- Document sample_max_stack and /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack
- Linux 4.8 added a new sample_max_stack parameter, as well as
- /proc/sys/kernel/perf_event_max_stack which limits it and a new
- EOVERFLOW error return.
- Dave Hansen
- PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES record type
- Linux 4.2 added a new record type: PERF_RECORD_LOST_SAMPLES
- It is generated when hardware samples (currently only Intel PEBS)
- are lost.
-
-ptrace.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA and PTRACE_SET_THREAD_AREA
-
-namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Eric W. Biederman]
- Document the NS_GET_USERNS and NS_GET_PARENT ioctl() operations
-
-sched.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Mike Galbraith]
- Document the autogroup feature
- Includes documenting autogroup nice value
- Michael Kerrisk
- Autogrouping breaks traditional semantics of nice in many cases
- When autogrouping is enabled (the default in many distros)
- there are many traditional use cases where the nice value
- ceases to have any effect.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a subsection on nice value and group scheduling
-
New and changed links
---------------------
-killpg.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- New link to relocated killpg(3) page
-
-pkey_free.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- New link to new pkey_alloc(2) page
-
-pkey_mprotect.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- New link to mprotect(2)
-pthread_setattr_default_np.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- New link to new pthread_getattr_default_np.3
+Removed pages
+-------------
-strfromf.3
- Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
- New link to strfromd(3)
-strfroml.3
- Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
- New link to strfromd(3)
+Removed links
+-------------
Global changes
--------------
-Various pages
- Michael kerrisk
- Remove ancient libc4 and libc5 details
- It's nearly 20 years now since Linux libc went away.
- Remove some ancient details from the pages.
-
-Various pages
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add cross references to new tmpfs(5) page
-
-Various pages
- Michael Kerrisk
- Change section number from 2 to 3 in killpg() references
-
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
-accept.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove editorializing comments about 'socklen_t'
- Michael Kerrisk
- Simplify the discussion of 'socklen_t'
- We don't really need to list the old OSes in this discussion.
-
-adjtimex.2
-clock_getres.2
-gettimeofday.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add hwclock(8)
-
-bind.2
-connect.2
-getpeername.2
-getsockname.2
-getsockopt.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Replace discussion of 'socklen_t' with reference to accept(2)
- The discussion of 'socklen_t' editorializes and is repeated
- across several pages. Replace it with a reference to accept(2),
- where some details about this type are provided.
-
-chmod.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add chmod(1)
-
-chown.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add chgrp(1) and chown(1)
-
-chroot.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add chroot(1)
-
-clone.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- The CLONE_*_SETTID operations store TID before return to user space
- CLONE_PARENT_SETTID and CLONE_CHILD_SETTID store the new
- TID before clone() returns to user space
-
-close.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Daniel Wagner]
- Rework and greatly extend discussion of error handling
- Further clarify that an error return should be used only
- for diagnostic or remedial purposes.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Other UNIX implementations also close the FD, even if reporting an error
- Looking at some historical source code suggests
- that the "close() always closes regardless of error return"
- behavior has a long history, predating even POSIX.1-1990.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that future POSIX plans to require that the FD is closed on error
- See http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=529#c1200.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify the variation in EINTR behavior per POSIX and other systems
-
-fallocate.2
- Darrick J. Wong
- Document behavior with shared blocks
- Note that FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE may use CoW to unshare blocks to
- guarantee that a disk write won't fail with ENOSPC.
-
-fanotify_mark.2
- Heinrich Schuchardt
- Mention FAN_Q_OVERFLOW
- To receive overflow events it is necessary to set this bit
- in fanotify_mark().
-
-fcntl.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- F_GETPIPE_SZ allocates next power-of-2 multiple of requested size
- Add some detail about current implementation, since this helps
- the user understand the effect of the user pipe limits added in
- Linux 4.5 (described in pipe(7)).
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add EPERM that occurs for F_SETPIPE_SZ when user pipe limit is reached
-
-fideduperange.2
- Darrick J. Wong [Omar Sandoval]
- Fix the discussion of maximum sizes
- Fix the discussion of the limitations on the dest_count and
- src_length parameters to the fideduperange ioctl() to reflect
- what's actually in the kernel.
-
-fsync.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add fileno(3)
- fileno(3) is useful if one is combining fflush(3)/fclose(3)
- and fsync(2).
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add fflush(3)
-
-getgroups.2
- Andrew Clayton
- FTM requirements fix for setgroups(2)
-
-gethostname.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add hostname(1)
-
-get_mempolicy.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that 'addr' must be NULL when 'flags' is 0
-
-getpriority.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Warn that autogrouping voids the effect of 'nice' in many cases
- Refer the reader to sched(7) for the details.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Expand discussion of getpriority() return value
- Michael Kerrisk
- The nice value supplied to setpriority() is clamped
- Note that the nice value supplied to setpriority() is clamped
- to the permitted range.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Improve description of setpriority() return value
-
-getpriority.2
-sched.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Move nice value details from getpriority(2) to sched(7)
- Centralizing these details in sched(7) is more logical.
-
-getrandom.2
-random.4
- Michael Kerrisk
- Consolidate and improve discussion on usage of randomness
- Currently, recommendations on how to consume randomness are
- spread across both getrandom(2) and random(4) and the general
- opinion seems to be that the text in getrandom(2) does a
- somewhat better job. Consolidate the discussion to a single
- page (getrandom(2)) and address some of the concerns
- expressed about the existing text in random(4).
- [Some of this text ultimately made its way into the new
- random(7) page.]
-
-getrandom.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove material incorporated into random(7)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note advantages of fact that getrandom() doesn't use file descriptors
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify that getrandom() is not "reading" from /dev/{random,urandom}
-
-getrlimit.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Refer to sched(7) in discussion of RLIMIT_RTPRIO and RLIMIT_RTTIME
- Michael Kerrisk
- Describe the range of the RLIMIT_NICE limit
- Michael Kerrisk
- Refer to sched(7) in the discussion of RLIMIT_NICE
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add credentials(7)
-
-ioctl_ficlonerange.2
-ioctl_fideduperange.2
- Darrick J. Wong
- Clarify the behavior of the FIDEDUPERANGE ioctl
-
-kill.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add kill(1)
-
-mbind.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Christoph Lameter]
- Memory policy is a per-thread attribute, not a per-process attribute
-
-mbind.2
-set_mempolicy.2
- Piotr Kwapulinski [Christoph Lameter, Michael Kerrisk]
- Add MPOL_LOCAL NUMA memory policy documentation
-
-mount.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add mountpoint(1)
-
-mprotect.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- CONFORMING TO: note that pkey_mprotect() is Linux-specific
-
-nice.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Warn that autogrouping voids the effect of 'nice' in many cases
- Michael Kerrisk
- CONFORMING TO: Remove an ancient SVr4 detail on errno values
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rework discussion of nice() return value and standards conformance
- Make the text a little clearer. In particular, clarify that the
- raw system call (still) returns 0 on success.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify the range of the nice value, and note that it is clamped
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add mention of RLIMIT_NICE
- Michael Kerrisk
- Move discussion of handling the -1 success return to RETURN VALUE
- This detail was rather hidden in NOTES. Also, rework the text
- a little.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify that nice() changes the nice value of the calling *thread*
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add "C library/kernel differences" subsection heading
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to sched(7) for further details on the nice value
-
-open.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- ubifs supports O_TMPFILE starting with Linux 4.9
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document ENOMEM that occurs when opening FIFO because of pipe hard limit
-
-perf_event_open.2
- Vince Weaver
- Add cycles field in LBR records
- Linux 4.3 added a cycles field to the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
- last branch records.
- Vince Weaver
- Update time_shift sample code
- Linux 4.3 improved the accuracy of the clock/ns conversion routines.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify the use of signals for capturing overflow events
-
-pipe.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add ENFILE error for user pipe hard limit reached
-
-prctl.2
- Eugene Syromyatnikov
- Some additional details regarding the PR_GET_UNALIGNED operation
- Eugene Syromyatnikov
- Note the output buffer size for PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS operation on x32/n32
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove numeric definitions of PR_FP_MODE_FR and PR_FP_MODE_FRE bits
-
-ptrace.2
- Keno Fischer
- Document the behavior of PTRACE_SYSEMU stops
- Keno Fischer
- Expand documentation PTRACE_EVENT_SECCOMP traps
- In Linux 4.8, the order of PTRACE_EVENT_SECCOMP and
- syscall-entry-stops was reversed. Document both behaviors and
- their interaction with the various forms of restart.
-
-quotactl.2
- Eugene Syromyatnikov
- Describe Q_XQUOTASYNC, which is present but no-op in recent kernels
-
-reboot.2
- Wang Long
- Note errors for invalid commands inside a PID namespace
-
-sched_setattr.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Fix cross reference for further info on the nice value
- The information moved from getpriority(2) to sched(7).
-
-sched_setscheduler.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Daniel Berrange]
- Mention SCHED_DEADLINE
- Give the reader a clue that there is another policy
- available that can't be set via sched_setscheduler(2).
-
-seccomp.2
- Jann Horn
- Document changed interaction with ptrace
- Before kernel 4.8, the seccomp check will not be run again
- after the tracer is notified. Fixed in kernel 4.9.
- Michael Kerrisk
- NOTES: mention ptrace(PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER) to dump seccomp filters
-
-set_mempolicy.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Reformat list of modes
-
-setsid.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Improve wording of text on calling setsid() after fork()+_exit()
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add sched(7)
- List sched(7), because setsid(2) is part of the machinery
- of autogrouping.
-
-sigaction.2
- Dave Hansen
- Further documentation of SEGV_PKUERR
-
-signalfd.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document ssi_addr_lsb field of signalfd_siginfo
-
-symlink.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add namei(1)
-
-sync_file_range.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Fix description for ESPIPE error
- A file descriptor can't refer to a symbolic link.
-
-syscalls.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add pkey_alloc(), pkey_free(), and pkey_mprotect()
- New system calls in Linux 4.9.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add ppc_swapcontext(2)
-
-timer_create.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document CLOCK_BOOTTIME
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM and CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM
-
-timerfd_create.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document CLOCK_BOOTTIME, CLOCK_REALTIME_ALARM, and CLOCK_BOOTTIME_ALARM
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rework discussion on relative and absolute timers
-
-unlink.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add unlink(2)
-
-utime.2
-utimensat.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add touch(1)
-
-wait.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- On some architectures, waitpid() is a wrapper that calls wait4().
-
-atof.3
- Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
- SEE ALSO: add strfromd(3)
-
-ctime.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add ERRORS section
- Michael Kerrisk
- RETURN VALUE: describe return values more explicitly
-
-errno.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Igor Liferenko]
- Add glibc error text for EILSEQ
-
-fclose.3
-fflush.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add fileno(2)
-
-getlogin.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove deprecated _REENTRANT from FTM requirements for getlogin_r()
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add logname(1)
-
-isalpha.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note circumstances where 'c' must be cast to 'unsigned char'
-
-killpg.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Move killpg.2 from section to to section 3
-
-mallopt.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Siddhesh Poyarekar]
- Document 0 as default value of M_ARENA_MAX and explain its meaning
- Michael Kerrisk
- Improve description of M_ARENA_TEST
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document default value for M_ARENA_TEST
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note default value of M_PERTURB
-
-mbsnrtowcs.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Igor Liferenko]
- Note behavior of mbsnrtowcs() for an incomplete character
- Note the behavior of mbsnrtowcs() when an incomplete character
- is found at end of the input buffer.
-
-mbstowcs.3
-wcstombs.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Igor Liferenko]
- Improve language relating to "initial state"
- See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839705
-
-mbstowcs.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Igor Liferenko]
- Add missing include to example program
- See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845172
-
-mq_close.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- DESCRIPTION: add reference to mq_notify(3)
-
-mq_open.3
- Eugene Syromyatnikov
- Clarification regarding usage of mq_flags attribute in mq_open()
-
-mq_receive.3
-mq_send.3
- Eugene Syromyatnikov
- Clarification regarding reasons behind EBADF
-
-printf.3
- Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
- SEE ALSO: add strfromd(3)
-
-pthread_attr_init.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add pthread_setattr_default_np(3)
-
-pthread_create.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add pthread_setattr_default_np(3)
-
-ptsname.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that ptsname_r() is proposed for future inclusion in POSIX.1
- Michael Kerrisk
- CONFORMING TO:: clarify that only ptsname() is standardized (so far)
-
-remainder.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note fix to remainder(nan(""), 0) handling
- The bug https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6779
- has been fixed in glibc 2.15.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document fixes for EDOM handling for range errors
- The bug http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6783
- was fixed in glibc 2.15.
-
-setjmp.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- _BSD_SOURCE must be *explicitly* defined to get BSD setjmp() semantics
-
-strtod.3
- Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
- SEE ALSO: add strfromd(3)
-
-tgamma.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document fixes to give ERANGE for underflow range error
- The bug https://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6810
- was fixed in glibc 2.19.
-
-timegm.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add ERRORS section
- Michael Kerrisk [Vincent Lefevre]
- Add RETURN VALUE section
-
-tmpnam.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Properly document tmpnam_r(3)
-
-toupper.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note circumstances where 'c' must be cast to 'unsigned char'
-
-ttyname.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add tty(1)
-
-console_ioctl.4
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add brief descriptive text for KDGKBMODE modes
- Miroslav Koskar
- Add K_OFF keyboard mode
-
-random.4
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to new random(7) page
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rework formatting of /proc interfaces
- Make the information easier to parse by formatting the file
- descriptions as hanging lists. No significant content changes.
- Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos [Laurent Georget]
- Provide a more accurate description of /dev/urandom
- This documents the "property" of /dev/urandom of being able to
- serve numbers prior to pool being initialized, and removes any
- suggested usages of /dev/random which are disputable
- (i.e., one-time pad). Document the fact /dev/random is only
- suitable for applications which can afford indeterminate delays
- since very few applications can do so. Smooth the alarming
- language about a theoretical attack, and mention that its
- security depends on the cryptographic primitives used by the
- kernel, as well as the total entropy gathered.
- Michael Kerrisk [Laurent Georget, Theodore Ts'o]
- Improve discussion of /dev/urandom, blocking reads, and signals
- The text currently states that O_NONBLOCK has no effect for
- /dev/urandom, which is true. It also says that reads from
- /dev/urandom are nonblocking. This is at the least confusing.
- If one attempts large reads (say 10MB) from /dev/urandom
- there is an appreciable delay, and interruption by a signal
- handler will result in a short read. Amend the text to
- reflect this.
-
-elf.5
- Mike Frysinger
- Add subsection headers at major points
- The current pages dumps all the content into one big DESCRIPTION
- with no real visual break up between logically independent
- sections. Add some subsection headers to make it easier to
- read and scan.
- Mike Frysinger
- Document notes
- Document the Elf{32,64}_Nhdr structure, the sections/segments that
- contain notes, and how to interpret them. I've been lazy and only
- included the GNU extensions here, especially as others are not
- defined in the elf.h header file as shipped by glibc.
-
-filesystems.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add fuse(4)
-
-proc.5
- Dave Hansen
- Describe new ProtectionKey 'smaps' field
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add example ProtectionKey output for 'smaps' file
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add pointers to sched(7) for autogroup files
- sched(7) describes /proc/sys/kernel/sched_autogroup_enabled
- and /proc/PID/autogroup.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add /proc/sys/fs/pipe-user-pages-{hard,soft} entries
- Michael Kerrisk
- Improve description of the KernelPageSize and MMUPageSize 'smaps' fields
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rework 'smaps' ProtectionKey text and add some details
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention lslocks(8) in discussion of /proc/locks
- Michael Kerrisk
- Describe Shmem field of /proc/meinfo
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rework 'smaps' VmFlags text, and add kernel version and example output
-
-proc.5
-pipe.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Move /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size content from proc(5) to pipe(7)
-
-resolv.conf.5
- Carlos O'Donell [Florian Weimer]
- Timeout does not map to resolver API calls
-
-utmp.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add users(1)
-
-capabilities.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- CAP_SYS_ADMIN governs ptrace(2) PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER
- Michael Kerrisk
- CAP_SYS_ADMIN allows privileged ioctl() operations on /dev/random
-
-cgroups.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add details on 'cpu' CFS bandwidth control
-
-credentials.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add setpriv(1)
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add shadow(5)
-
-feature_test_macros.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Zack Weinberg]
- Note that _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are now deprecated
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that "cc -pthread" defines _REENTRANT
-
-inotify.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note a subtlety of event generation when monitoring a directory
-
-libc.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a note on why glibc 2.x uses the soname libc.so.6
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a few historical details on Linux libc4 and libc5
- Just for historical interest. Details taken from
- http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/glibcinfo.html.
-
-mdoc.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a cross-reference to groff_mdoc(7)
-
-mount_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add user_namespaces(7)
-
-mount_namespaces.7
-user_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Migrate subsection on mount restrictions to mount_namespaces(7)
- This section material in the user_namespaces(7) page was written
- before the creation of the mount_namespaces(7) manual page.
- Nowadays, this material properly belongs in the newer page.
-
-netlink.7
- Dmitry V. Levin
- Document NETLINK_INET_DIAG rename to NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG
- Dmitry V. Levin
- Add references to sock_diag(7)
-
-pid_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Refer to namespaces(7) for information about NS_GET_PARENT
-
-pipe.7
- Michael Kerrisk, Vegard Nossum [Vegard Nossum]
- Document /proc files controlling memory usage by pipes
- Document /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size and
- /proc/sys/fs/pipe-user-pages-{soft,hard}.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document pre-Linux 4.9 bugs in pipe limit checking
-
-sched.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a new introductory paragraph describing the nice value
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add more precise details on CFS's treatment of the nice value
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention RLIMIT_NICE in the discussion of the nice value
- Michael Kerrisk
- NOTES: mention cgroups CPU controller
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add introductory sentence mentioning CFS scheduler
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add nice(2), getpriority(2), and setpriority(2) to API list
- Michael Kerrisk
- Make it clearer that SCHED_OTHER is always scheduled below real-time
- Michael Kerrisk
- Give the page a more generic NAME
- The page isn't just about APIs.
-
-standards.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- POSIX.1-2016 (POSIX.1-2008 TC2) has now been released
-
-symlink.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add namei(1)
-
-uri.7
- Jakub Wilk
- Use "example.com" as example domain
-
-user_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to namespaces(7) for NS_GET_USERNS operation
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to namespaces(7) for NS_GET_PARENT operation
+The manual pages (and other files in the repository) have been improved
+beyond what this changelog covers. To learn more about changes applied
+to individual pages, or the authors of changes, use git(1).
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