-==================== Changes in man-pages-4.14 ====================
+==================== Changes in man-pages-5.07 ====================
-Released: 2017-11-27, Paris
+Released: ????-??-??, Munich
Contributors
in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
incorporated in changes in this release:
-Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
-Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
-Ahmad Fatoum <ahmad@a3f.at>
-Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
-Bastien Roucaries <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
-Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
-Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
-Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
-Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
-Colm MacCárthaigh <colm@allcosts.net>
-Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@2ndquadrant.com>
-Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
-David Eckardt <david.eckardt@sociomantic.com>
-Don Brace <don.brace@microsemi.com>
-Elliot Hughes <enh@google.com>
-Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
-Fabio Scotoni <fabio@esse.ch>
-Fangrui Song <i@maskray.me>
-Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
-G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
-Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
-Grégory Vander Schueren <gregory.vanderschueren@tessares.net>
-Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
-Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
-Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
-Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
-Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
-Julien Gomes <julien@arista.com>
-Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
-Křištof Želechovski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>
-Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
-Lucas Werkmeister <mail@lucaswerkmeister.de>
-Marcus Folkesson <marcus.folkesson@gmail.com>
-Marin H. <mar-tSIEzQ@neutronstar.noip.me>
-Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
-Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
-Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
-Michał Zegan <webczat_200@poczta.onet.pl>
-Mihir Mehta <mihir@cs.utexas.edu>
-Mike Frysinger <vapier@chromium.org>
-Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
-Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
-NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
-Oliver Ebert <oe@outputenable.net>
-Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
-Per Böhlin <Per.Bohlin@zenterio.com>
-Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
-Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz>
-Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@suse.cz>
-Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@oracle.com>
-Raghavendra D Prabhu <me@rdprabhu.com>
-Rahul Bedarkar <rpal143@gmail.com>
-Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
-Richard Knutsson <richard.knutsson@abelko.se>
-Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
-Scott Vokes <vokes.s@gmail.com>
-Seonghun Lim <wariua@gmail.com>
-Stas Sergeev <stsp@list.ru>
-Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
-Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
-Tobias Klausmann <klausman@schwarzvogel.de>
-Tomas Pospisek <tpo@sourcepole.ch>
-Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
-Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
-Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
-Wesley Aptekar-Cassels <w.aptekar@gmail.com>
-Yubin Ruan <ablacktshirt@gmail.com>
-Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
-Дилян Палаузов <dilyan.palauzov@aegee.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
-pthread_spin_init.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Peter Zijlstra, Thomas Gleixner, Zack Weinberg,
- Florian Weimer]
- New page describing pthread_spin_init(3) and pthread_spin_destroy(3)
-
-pthread_spin_lock.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Carlos O'Donell]
- New page describing functions that lock and unlock spin locks
- Add a page describing pthread_spin_lock(3), pthread_spin_unlock(3),
- and pthread_spin_trylock(3).
-
-smartpqi.4
- Don Brace [Michael Kerrisk, G. Branden Robinson]
- Document the smartpqi SCSI driver
-
-veth.4
- Tomáš Pospíšek, Eric Biederman, Michael Kerrisk
- New page document veth virtual ethernet devices
- Based on a page from Tomáš Pospíšek, with some clean-ups by mtk.
-
-
-Removed pages
--------------
-
-infnan.3:
- Michael Kerrisk
- This function was in libc4 and libc5, but never part
- of glibc. It ceased to be relevant nearly 20 years
- ago. Time to remove the man page.
-
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
-ioctl_userfaultfd.2
-userfaultfd.2
- Prakash Sangappa [Andrea Arcangeli, Mike Rapoport]
- Add description for UFFD_FEATURE_SIGBUS
-
-madvise.2
- Rik van Riel [Colm MacCárthaigh, Michael Kerrisk]
- Document MADV_WIPEONFORK and MADV_KEEPONFORK
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note fork() and execve() semantics for wipe-on-fork setting
-
-membarrier.2
- Mathieu Desnoyers
- Update membarrier manpage for 4.14
- Add documentation for these new membarrier() commands:
- MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED
- MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED
-
-memfd_create.2
- Mike Kravetz
- Add description of MFD_HUGETLB (hugetlbfs) support
- hugetlbfs support for memfd_create() was recently merged by Linus
- and should be in the Linux 4.14 release. To request hugetlbfs
- support a new memfd_create() flag (MFD_HUGETLB) was added.
-
-readv.2
- Christoph Hellwig
- Document RWF_NOWAIT added in Linux 4.14
-
-seccomp.2
- Tyler Hicks
- Document the SECCOMP_GET_ACTION_AVAIL operation added in Linux 4.14
- Tyler Hicks
- Document the SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_LOG flag added in Linux 4.14
- Tyler Hicks
- Document the SECCOMP_RET_LOG action added In Linux 4.14
- Michael Kerrisk [Kees Cook]
- Add description of SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add SECCOMP_RET_KILL_THREAD description and rework SECCOMP_RET_KILL text
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document the seccomp audit logging feature added in Linux 4.14
-
-seccomp.2
-proc.5
- Tyler Hicks
- Document the seccomp /proc interfaces added in Linux 4.14
- Document the seccomp /proc interfaces in Linux 4.14:
- /proc/sys/kernel/seccomp/actions_avail and
- /proc/sys/kernel/seccomp/actions_logged.
-
-sigaltstack.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Stas Sergeev]
- Document the SS_AUTODISARM flag added in Linux 4.7
-
-proc.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document /proc/locks
- Oliver Ebert
- Document /proc/kpagecgroup
- Oliver Ebert
- Add KPF_BALLOON, KPF_ZERO_PAGE, and KPF_IDLE for /proc/kpageflags
-
-pid_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid
-
New and changed links
---------------------
-pthread_spin_destroy.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- New link to new pthread_spin_init.3 page
-
-pthread_spin_trylock.3
-pthread_spin_unlock.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- New links to new pthread_spin_lock.3 page
-
Global changes
--------------
-Various pages
- Michael Kerrisk
- Consistently use "x86-64", not "x86_64"
- When referring to the architecture, consistently use "x86-64",
- not "x86_64". Hitherto, there was a mixture of usages, with
- "x86-64" predominant.
-
-Various pages
- G. Branden Robinson
- Replace incorrect uses of Latin abbreviation "cf.".
- People seem to be using "cf." ("confere"), which means "compare",
- to mean "see" instead, for which the Latin abbreviation would be
-
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
-capget.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify discussion of kernels that have no VFS capability support
-
-clock_getres.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- clock_gettime() may be implemented in the vDSO
-
-clone.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Warn that the clone() wrapper modifies child_stack in the parent
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rework the discussion of the historical CLONE_PID for clarity
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add NOTES heading
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a reference to new veth(4) page
- Michael Kerrisk
- Eliminate some redundant phrasing in discussion of "fn()"
- Michael Kerrisk
- Combine redundant paragraphs describing child_stack==NULL
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that child_stack can be NULL when using the raw system call
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove a redundant paragraph
-
-connect.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify that ECONNREFUSED is for stream sockets
-
-fcntl.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Jens Axboe]
- Inode read-write hints persist only until the filesystem is unmounted
-
-flock.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Move NFS details to a headed subsection
- Michael Kerrisk [Petr Uzel]
- Placing an exclusive lock over NFS requires the file is open for writing
-
-fork.2
- Rik van Riel [Colm MacCárthaigh, Michael Kerrisk]
- Document effect of MADV_WIPEONFORK
-
-fork.2
-getsid.2
-setpgid.2
-setsid.2
- Ahmad Fatoum
- Include <sys/types.h> in SYNOPSIS to obtain declaration of pid_t
-
-fsync.2
- Craig Ringer
- ERRORS: add ENOSPC
-
-getcpu.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- getcpu() may have an implementation in the vDSO
-
-getpid.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention that PID == TGID, and note contrast with TID
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add gettid(2)
-
-getrandom.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Fabio Scotoni]
- ERRORS: add ENOSYS
-
-getrlimit.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Scott Vokes]
- Make it clear RLIMIT_NPROC is a limit on current number of processes
- https://twitter.com/silentbicycle/status/893849097903505409
-
-gettid.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add getpid(2)
-
-gettimeofday.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that gettimeofday() may be implemented in the vDSO
-
-ioctl_userfaultfd.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rework version information for feature bits
-
-io_submit.2
- Goldwyn Rodrigues
- Add iocb details to io_submit
- Add more information about the iocb structure. Explains the
- fields of the I/O control block structure which is passed to the
- io_submit() call.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add cross-reference to io_getevents(2)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Cross reference pwritev(2) in discussion of RWF_SYNC and RWF_DSYNC
-
-membarrier.2
- Mathieu Desnoyers
- Update example to take TSO into account
- The existing example given specifically states that it focus on
- x86 (TSO memory model), but gives a read-read vs write-write
- ordering example, even though this scenario does not require
- explicit barriers on TSO.
-
- So either we change the example architecture to a weakly-ordered
- architecture, or we change the example to a scenario requiring
- barriers on x86.
-
- Let's stay on x86, but provide a Dekker as example instead.
- Mathieu Desnoyers
- Adapt the MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED return value documentation to
- reflect that it now returns -EINVAL when issued on a system
- configured for nohz_full.
-
-memfd_create.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note the limit for size of 'name'
-
-mkdir.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Raghavendra D Prabhu]
- ERRORS: document EINVAL error for invalid filename
-
-mmap.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add explicit text noting that 'length' must be greater than 0
- Currently, this detail is hidden in ERRORS. Make it clear in
- the main text.
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add ftruncate(2)
-
-mremap.2
- Mike Kravetz [Florian Weimer, Jann Horn]
- Add description of old_size == 0 functionality
- Since at least the 2.6 time frame, mremap() would create a new
- mapping of the same pages if 'old_size == 0'. It would also leave
- the original mapping. This was used to create a 'duplicate
- mapping'.
-
- A recent change was made to mremap() so that an attempt to create a
- duplicate a private mapping will fail.
- Michael Kerrisk [Michal Hocko, Mike Kravetz]
- BUGS: describe older behavior for old_size==0 on private mappings
- Explain the older behavior, and why it changed. This is a
- follow-up to Mike Kravetz's patch documenting the behavior
- for old_size==0 with shared mappings.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Reformat EINVAL errors as a list
-
-open.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- By contrast with O_RDONLY, no file permissions are required for O_PATH
- Note one of the significant advantages of O_PATH: many of the
- operations applied to O_PATH file descriptors don't require
- read permission, so there's no reason why the open() itself
- should require read permission.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note use of O_PATH to provide O_EXEC functionality
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention O_PATH file descriptor use with fexecve(3)
- Michael Kerrisk
- ERRORS: document EINVAL error for invalid filename
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify that O_TMPFILE creates a *regular* file
- Michael Kerrisk
- Make it explicit that O_CREAT creates a regular file
- Michael Kerrisk
- Since glibc 2.26, the open() wrapper always uses the openat() syscall
- Michael Kerrisk
- Change pathname used in discussion of rationale for openat()
- /path/to/file is a little confusing as a pathname
- Michael Kerrisk
- Make the purpose of open() a little clearer at the start of the page
-
-open_by_handle_at.2
- NeilBrown
- Clarifications needed due to NFS reexport
- NeilBrown [Lennart Poettering]
- Clarify MAX_HANDLE_SZ
- As hinted in the kernel source, MAX_HANDLE_SZ is a hint
- rather than a promise.
-
-pipe.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Marin H.]
- Since Linux 4.5, fcntl() can be used to set O_DIRECT for a pipe
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197917
-
-pivot_root.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add switch_root(8)
-
-pkey_alloc.2
- Breno Leitao
- Fix argument order
- Currently pkey_alloc() syscall has two arguments, and the very
- first argument is still not supported and should be set to zero.
- The second argument is the one that should specify the
- page access rights.
-
-ptrace.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add ltrace(1)
-
-reboot.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Michał Zegan]
- Fix bogus description of reboot() from non-initial PID namespace
- The current text was confused (mea culpa). No signal is sent to
- the init() process. Rather, depending on the 'cmd' given to
- reboot(), the 'group_exit_code' value will set to either SIGHUP or
- SIGINT, with the effect that one of those signals is reported to
- wait() in the parent process.
-
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195899
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: remove reboot(8) (synonym for halt(8)); add shutdown(8)
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add systemctl(1), systemd(1)
-
-recvmmsg.2
-sendmmsg.2
- Elliot Hughes
- Type fixes in SYNOPSIS
- [mtk: The raw system calls use "unsigned int", but the glibc
- wrappers have "int" for the 'flags' argument.]
-
-sched_setaffinity.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add numactl(8)
-
-sched_yield.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Peter Zijlstra]
- sched_yield() is intended for use with real-time scheduling policies
-
-seccomp.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Adhemerval Zanella, Florian Weimer, Kees Cook]
- Add some Caveats regarding the use of seccomp filters
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document the "default" filter return action
- The kernel defaults to either SECCOMP_RET_KILL_PROCESS
- or SECCOMP_RET_KILL_THREAD for unrecognized filter
- return action values.
- Michael Kerrisk [Kees Cook]
- Change SECCOMP_RET_ACTION to SECCOMP_RET_ACTION_FULL
- In Linux 4.14, the action component of the return value
- switched from being 15 bits to being 16 bits. A new macro,
- SECCOMP_RET_ACTION_FULL, that masks the 16 bits was added,
- to replace the older SECCOMP_RET_ACTION.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Explicitly note that other threads survive SECCOMP_RET_KILL_THREAD
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add strace(1)
-
-send.2
- Grégory Vander Schueren
- Add EALREADY to ERRORS
-
-setns.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add nsenter(1)
-
-shmop.2
- Yubin Ruan
- Note that return value of shmat() is page-aligned
-
-sigaction.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rework discussion of SA_SIGINFO handler arguments
- Expand and rework the text a little, in particular adding
- a reference to sigreturn(2) as a source of further
- information about the ucontext argument.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention that libc sets the act.sa_restorer field
-
-sigaltstack.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Walter Harms]
- Reword BUGS text to be a little clearer
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add explicit error handling to example code
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add use of sigaction() to example code
-
-sigreturn.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Make it a little clearer that a stack frame is created by the kernel
- Michael Kerrisk
- glibc has a simple wrapper for sigreturn() that returns ENOSYS
-
-splice.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Since Linux 2.6.31,'fd_in' and 'fd_out' may both refer to pipes
-
-stat.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Richard Knutsson]
- Use lstat() instead of stat()
- It's more logical to use lstat() in the example code,
- since one can then experiment with symbolic links, and
- also the S_IFLNK case can also occur.
- NeilBrown
- Correct AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT text and general revisions
- Expand on the relationship between fstatat() and the other three
- functions, and improve the description of AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT.
- Specifically, both stat() and lstat() act the same way with
- respect to automounts, and that behavior matches fstatat() with
- the AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT flag.
-
-statfs.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add some comments noting filesystems that are no longer current
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add comments describing a few filesystem types
-
-time.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that time() may be implemented in the vDSO
- Michael Kerrisk [Victor Porton]
- Language fix-up: clarify that "tasks" means "work"
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197183
-
-userfaultfd.2
- Mike Rapoport
- BUGS: document spurious UFFD_EVENT_FORK
-
-write.2
-fsync.2
-close.2
- NeilBrown [Jeff Layton]
- Update description of error codes
- Since 4.13, errors from writeback are more reliably reported
- to all file descriptors that might be relevant.
-
- Add notes to this effect, and also add detail about ENOSPC and
- EDQUOT which can be delayed in a similar many to EIO - for NFS
- in particular.
-
-abort.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Starting with glibc 2.27, abort() does not attempt to flush streams
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add assert(3)
-
-backtrace_symbols_fd(3)
- Stefan Puiu [Walter Harms]
- backtrace_symbols_fd() can trigger a call to malloc()
-
-daemon.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add daemon(7), logrotate(8)
-
-errno.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note use of errno(1) to look up error names and numbers
- Michael Kerrisk
- Update error list for POSIX.1-2008
- POSIX.1-2008 specified a couple of new errors not present in
- POSIX.1-2001.
- Michael Kerrisk [Walter Harms]
- Note the use of perror(3) and strerror(3)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Recast the advice against manually declaring 'errno'
- Recast the advice against manually declaring 'errno' to
- a more modern perspective. It's 13 years since the original
- text was added, and even then it was describing old behavior.
- Cast the description to be about behavior further away in
- time, and note more clearly that manual declaration will
- cause problems with modern C libraries.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add some missing errors
- Michael Kerrisk
- Error numbers are positive values (rather than nonzero values)
- POSIX.1-2008 noted the explicitly the change (to align with
- the C standards) that error numbers are positive, rather
- than nonzero.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Reorganize the text and and some subheadings
- Restructure the text and add some subheadings for better
- readability. No (intentional) content changes.
- Michael Kerrisk [Wesley Aptekar-Cassels]
- Note that error numbers vary somewhat across architectures
- Added after a patch from Wesley Aptekar-Cassels that proposed
- to add error numbers to the text.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note the <errno.h> also provides the symbolic error names
- Michael Kerrisk [Walter Harms]
- Explicitly note that error numbers vary also across UNIX systems
-
-exec.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- glibc 2.24 dropped CWD from the default path
- Document the glibc 2.24 change that dropped CWD from the default
- search path employed by execlp(), execvp() and execvpe() when
- PATH is not defined.
-
-fexecve.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- O_PATH file descriptors are also usable with fexecve()
- Cristian Rodríguez
- fexecve() is now implemented with execveat(2), where available
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add some detail on the glibc implementation of fexecve() via execveat(2)
-
-ffs.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- glibc 2.27 relaxes the FTM requirements for ffsl() and ffsll()
-
-get_nprocs_conf.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add nproc(1)
-
-lround.3
- Michael Kerrisk [David Eckardt]
- Clarify that lround() rounds *halfway cases" away from zero
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194601
-
-makedev.3
- Adrian Bunk
- glibc has deprecated exposing the definitions via <sys/types.h>
-
-mallinfo.3
- Jakub Wilk
- Fix the example
- Remove reference to non-standard "tlpi_hdr.h" and replace calls to
- functions that were declared in this header.
-
-malloc.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add valgrind(1)
-
-popen.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a cross reference to Caveats in system(3)
- All of the same risks regarding system() also apply to popen().
-
-pthread_detach.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Rahul Bedarkar]
- Improve sentence describing freeing of resources on process termination
- As reported by Rahul, the existing sentence could be read as
- meaning that resources of joined and terminated detached
- threads are freed only at process termination. Eliminate
- that possible misreading.
-
-pthread_yield.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Peter Zijlstra]
- pthread_yield() is intended for use with real-time scheduling policies
-
-setlocale.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Křištof Želechovski]
- The standards do not specify all of the locale categories
-
-sockatmark.3
- Seonghun Lim
- Fix cruft in code example
-
-stdio.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Use proper section cross references in function list
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove crufty reference to pc(1)
-
-sysconf.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention get_nprocs_conf(3)
- Mention get_nprocs_conf(3) in discussion of _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF
- and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN.
-
-system.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Bastien Roucaries]
- Create a "Caveats" subsection to hold warnings about the use of system()
- See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882222
- Michael Kerrisk [Bastien Roucaries]
- Mention PATH explicitly in discussion of system() and set-UID programs
- Michael Kerrisk [Bastien Roucaries]
- Note that user input for system() should be carefully sanitized
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention file capabilities in discussion of privileged programs
- Michael Kerrisk
- Correctly note which shell Debian uses as (noninteractive) /bin/sh
-
-core.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add some notes on systemd and core dumps
- Michael Kerrisk
- Dumps are not produced if core_pattern is empty and core_uses_pid is 0
- Michael Kerrisk [Per Böhlin]
- RLIMIT_CORE is not enforced when piping core dump to a program
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALO: add systemd-coredump(8)
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add coredumpctl(1)
-
-filesystems.5
- Michael Kerrisk [Jonny Grant]
- Replace crufty URL reference for 'smb' with up-to-date URL
- Michael Kerrisk [Jonny Grant]
- Refer to VFAT as an extended FAT (not DOS) filesystem
-
-proc.5
- Michael Kerrisk [Miklos Szered, Ram Pai]
- Correct the description of the parent mount ID for /proc/PID/mountinfo
- Oliver Ebert
- Add mmap-exclusive bit for /proc/[pid]/pagemap
- Marcus Folkesson
- Update description of /proc/<pid>/oom_score
- Lucas Werkmeister
- Clarify permissions in /proc/[pid]/fd/
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to pid_namespaces(7) for /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid
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-shells.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add pam_shells(8)
-
-sysfs.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a brief explanation of /sys/kernel
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a brief description of /sys/class/net
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a brief description of /sys/kernel/mm
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add brief description of /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a description of /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages
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-arp.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add arpd(8)
-
-capabilities.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a reference to xattr(7) in the discussion of extended attributes
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add captest(8)
-
-epoll.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note existence of kcmp() KCMP_EPOLL_TFD operation
-
-fifo.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Refer reader to pipe(7) for details of I/O semantics of FIFOs
-
-hier.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add file-hierarchy(7)
-
-icmp.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add rdisc(8)
-
-man-pages.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that "x86-64" is generally preferred over "x86_64"
- G. Branden Robinson
- Add a use case for real minus character
-
-namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a reference to new veth(4) page
- Michael Kerrisk
- EXAMPLE: refer also to example in clone(2)
-
-pid_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add reboot(2)
- Add because reboot(2) has special semantics for non-initial
- PID namespaces.
-
-pthreads.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add pthread_spin_init(3) and pthread_spin_lock(3)
-
-socket.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Petr Malat, Tobias Klausmann]
- Correct the description of SO_RXQ_OVFL
-
-standards.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add getconf(1), confstr(3), pathconf(3), sysconf(3)
-
-user_namespaces.7
- Christian Brauner [Michael Kerrisk]
- Document new 340 line idmap limit
-
-ld.so.8
- Michael Kerrisk [Yubin Ruan]
- Simplify language around conferring capabilities
- The statement "conferring permitted or effective capabilities"
- to the process is somewhat redundant. Binaries with capabilities
- confer capabilities only to those process capability sets, so it's
- simpler to just say "confers capabilities to the process".
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