-==================== Changes in man-pages-4.10 ====================
+==================== Changes in man-pages-5.07 ====================
-Released: ????-??-??, Paris
+Released: ????-??-??, Munich
Contributors
in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
incorporated in changes in this release:
-Adam Martindale <adam.john.martindale@gmail.com>
-Alex <psybin@riseup.net>
-Anders Thulin <anders@thulin.name>
-Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
-Brian Masney <masneyb@onstation.org>
-Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
-David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
-Erik Kline <ekline@gmail.com>
-Erik Roland van der Meer <ervdmeer@gmail.com>
-Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
-Fabjan Sukalia <fsukalia@gmail.com>
-Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
-Helmut Eller <eller.helmut@gmail.com>
-Hugo Guiroux <hugo.guiroux@gmail.com>
-Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
-Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
-Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
-Jan Ziak <0xe2.0x9a.0x9b@gmail.com>
-John Wiersba <jrw32982@yahoo.com>
-Jon Jensen <jon@endpoint.com>
-Kai NODA <nodakai@gmail.com>
-KASAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
-Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
-Kent Fredic <kentfredric@gmail.com>
-Krzysztof Kulakowski <krzysztof.kulakowski@intel.com>
-Maik Zumstrull <maik@zumstrull.net>
-Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@linux.intel.com>
-Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-Mike Frysinger <vapier@chromium.org>
-Nadav Har'El <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>
-Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
-Nicolas Biscos <nicolas.biscos+man7@gmail.com>
-Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
-Paul Fee <paul.f.fee@gmail.com>
-Reverend Homer <mk.43.ecko@gmail.com>
-Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
-Sergey Polovko <sergey@polovko.me>
-Steven Luo <steven@steven676.net>
-Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@intel.com>
-Vincent Bernat <vincent@bernat.im>
-Vivenzio Pagliari <vivenzio.pagliari@nokia.com>
-Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
-add_key.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Eugene Syromyatnikov, David Howells]
- Major improvements and additions
- The page has doubled in length.
-
-ioctl_iflags.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page describing inode flags and ioctl() operations
-
-ioctl_ns.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page created by splitting ioctl(2) operations out of namespaces(7)
-
-keyctl.2
- Michael Kerrisk, Eugene Syromyatnikov [David Howells, Mat Martineau]
- A vast number of additions and improvements
- The page has gone from somewhat over 100 lines to well over
- 1000 lines and now more or less documents the complete interface
- provided by this system call.
-
-getentropy.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page documenting getentropy(3)
- getentropy(3) is added to glibc in version 2.25.
-
-keyrings.7
- David Howells
- New page (written by David Howells) adopted from keyutils
- Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces,
- it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather
- than the keyutils package.
- Michael Kerrisk [Eugene Syromyatnikov, David Howells]
- Very many additions and improvements
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document /proc/keys
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document /proc/sys/kernel/keys/persistent_keyring_expiry
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document /proc/key-users
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document /proc/sys/kernel/keys/gc_delay
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document /proc files that define key quotas
-
-persistent-keyring.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page (written by David Howells) adopted from keyutils
- Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces,
- it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather
- than the keyutils package.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Various clean-ups and additions
-
-process-keyring.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page (written by David Howells) adopted from keyutils
- Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces,
- it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather
- than the keyutils package.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Various additions and improvements
-
-request_key.2
- Michael Kerrisk, Eugene Syromyatnikov [David Howells]
- Very many additions and improvements
- The page is now three times its former length.
-
-session-keyring.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page (written by David Howells) adopted from keyutils
- Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces,
- it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather
- than the keyutils package.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Various reworking and additions
-
-signal-safety.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page created by migrating the signal-safety discussion from
- signal(7). Along the way some more details got added.
- Michael Kerrisk [KASAKI Motohiro]
- Note async-signal-safety problems caused by pthread_atfork()
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25292
- Michael Kerrisk [KASAKI Motohiro]
- Note glibc deviations from POSIX requirements
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25292
-
-thread-keyring.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page (written by David Howells) adopted from keyutils
- Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces,
- it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather
- than the keyutils package.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Various rewordings and additions
-
-user-keyring.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page (written by David Howells) adopted from keyutils
- Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces,
- it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather
- than the keyutils package.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Various reworking and improvements
-
-user-session-keyring.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page (written by David Howells) adopted from keyutils
- Since this page documents kernel-user-space interfaces,
- it makes sense to have it as part of man-pages, rather
- than the keyutils package.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Various rewordings and additions
-
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
-bzero.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document explicit_bzero() (new in glibc 2.25)
- Also, reword the description of bzero somewhat.
-
-proc.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document /proc/sys/vm/user_reserve_kbytes
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document /proc/sys/vm/admin_reserve_kbytes
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document /proc/sys/fs/mount-max
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document /proc/PID/status 'NoNewPrivs' field
-
New and changed links
---------------------
-explicit_bzero.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- New link to bzero.3
+
+Global changes
+--------------
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
-chmod.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- ERRORS: add EPERM error for immutable/append-only file
-
-chown.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- ERRORS: add EPERM error for immutable/append-only file
-
-chroot.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add switch_root(8)
-
-clock_getres.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note POSIX.1 requirements re relative time services and CLOCK_REALTIME
-
-clone.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- clone() does not execute fork handlers
-
-execve.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rework text describing when effective IDs aren't transformed by execve()
- Michael Kerrisk
- File capabilities can be ignored for the same reasons as set-UID/set-GID
- Michael Kerrisk
- The 'no_new_privs' bit inhibits transformations of the effective IDs
-
-fork.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- cgroup PIDs controller may also be trigger for EAGAIN error
-
-fsync.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add posix_fadvise(2)
-
-getrandom.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove getentropy(3) details and defer to new getentropy(3) page
- Michael Kerrisk
- Starting with glibc 2.25, getrandom() is now declared in <sys/random.h>
- Michael Kerrisk
- glibc support was added in version 2.25
-
-getrlimit.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document role of RLIMIT_NOFILE for FD passing over UNIX sockets
-
-getxattr.2
-listxattr.2
- Andreas Gruenbacher
- Document E2BIG errors
-
-inotify_add_watch.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note "inode" as a synonym for "filesystem object"
- Consistent with clarifications just made in inotify(7).
-
-ioctl.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add ioctl_ns(2), ioctl_iflags(2)
-
-ioctl_fat.2
- Brian Masney
- Correctly reference volume ID instead of volume label
-
-kcmp.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention the clone(2) flags relating to various kcmp() 'type' values
- Michael Kerrisk
- KCMP_FILE: note reasons why FDs may refer to same open file description
-
-link.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- When using linkat() AT_EMPTY_PATH, 'olddirfd' must not be a directory
- Michael Kerrisk
- ERRORS: add EPERM for immutable/append-only files
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note limits where EMLINK is encountered on ext4 and Btrfs
-
-listxattr.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Eliminate extra E2BIG error text
- Andreas' patch added a second description of E2BIG that
- was (mostly) more detailed than the existing text. Combine
- the two texts.
-
-lseek.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- O_APPEND overrides the effect of lseek() when doing file writes
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove ancient info about whence values and return values on old systems
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove slightly bogus advice about race conditions
- The page already (by now) contains a reference to open(2)
- for a discussion of open file descriptions. Leave it at that,
- since the reader can then deduce how things work.
-
-madvise.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that madvise() is generally about improving performance
-
-mbind.2
- Krzysztof Kulakowski [Michael Kerrisk]
- Update MPOL_BIND description
- Behavior of MPOL_BIND Linux 2.6.26.
-
-mincore.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add madvise(2), posix_fadvise(2), posix_madvise(3)
-
-mlock.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note pre-4.9 bug in RLIMIT_MEMLOCK accounting for overlapping locks
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add mincore(2)
-
-mmap.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- mincore(2) can be used to discover which pages of a mapping are resident
-
-mount.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Rob Landley]
- Refer to mount_namespaces(7) for details of default propagation type
-
-nanosleep.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Describe "creeping sleep" problem
- nanosleep() has a problem if used in a program that catches
- signals and those signals are delivered at a very high rate.
- Describe the problem, and note that clock_nanosleep(2)
- provides a solution.
- Michael Kerrisk
- BUGS: explicitly note that the Linux 2.4 bug was fixed in Linux 2.6
-
-open.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Make it clear that O_APPEND implies atomicity
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify distinction between file creation flags and file status flags
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note ambiguity of ELOOP error when using O_NOFOLLOW
- Michael Kerrisk
- Restructure O_NOFOLLOW text for easier parsing
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify that O_NOFOLLOW is now in POSIX
-
-poll.2
-select.2
- Nicolas Biscos
- Add a reference to the sigset discussion in sigprocmask(2)
- A little while back, I added a note to sigprocmask.2 that
- discussed the difference between the libc's and the kernel's
- sigset_t structures. I added that note, because I saw this being
- done wrong in a tool tracing system calls (causing subtle bugs).
- As it turns out, the same bugs existed for ppoll and pselect, for
- the same reason. I'm hoping by adding the reference here, future
- writers of similar tools will find that discussion and not make
- the same mistake.
-
-posix_fadvise.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
- It may be helpful for the reader of this page to know about
- /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Reorganize some text
- Details for various flags were hidden under NOTES.
- Move them to DESCRIPTION, to make the details more
- obvious.
- Michael Kerrisk
- One can use open(2) + mmap(2) + mincore(2) as a 'fincore'
- Note that open(2) + mmap(2) + mincore(2) to get a view of which
- pages of a file are currently cached.
- Michael Kerrisk [Maik Zumstrull]
- Note that POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED *may* try to write back dirty pages
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: mincore(2)
-
-prctl.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify that the ambient capability set is per-thread
- Keno Fischer
- Be more precise in what causes dumpable to reset
- Michael Kerrisk
- The no_new_privs setting is per-thread (not per-process)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention /proc/PID/status 'NoNewPrivs' field
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to seccomp(2) in discussion of PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS
-
-ptrace.2
- Omar Sandoval
- Clarify description of PTRACE_O_EXITKILL
-
-read.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Kai NODA]
- Rework text in DESCRIPTION that talks about limits for 'count'
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86061
- Michael Kerrisk [Steven Luo]
- Remove crufty text about EINTR and partial read
- Remove bogus text saying that POSIX permits partial read
- to return -1/EINTR on interrupt by a signal handler.
- That statement already ceased to be true in SUSv1 (1995)!
-
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193111
-
-readv.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove generic advice about mixing stdio and syscalls on same file
- There is nothing specific to readv()/writev() about this advice.
-
-recv.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Vincent Bernat]
- Remove duplicate paragraph
- man-pages-1.34 included changes that duplicated an existing
- paragraph. Remove that duplicate.
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add ip(7), ipv6(7), tcp(7), udp(7), unix(7)
-
-remap_file_pages.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- remap_file_pages() has been replaced by a slower in-kernel emulation
-
-send.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add ipv6(7), socket(7), unix(7)
-
-setxattr.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- ERRORS: add EPERM for immutable/append-only files
-
-signalfd.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- signalfd() doesn't play well with helper programs spawned by libraries
- See https://lwn.net/Articles/415684/.
- Michael Kerrisk
- signalfd can't be used to receive synchronously generated signals
- Signals such as the SIGSEGV that results from an invalid
- memory access can be caught only with a handler.
-
-stat.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- EXAMPLE: extend program to also show ID of the containing device
- Michael Kerrisk
- NOTES: mention fstatat() AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT in discussion of automounting
-
-statfs.2
- Namhyung Kim
- Add more filesystem types
- Add missing magic numbers from /usr/include/linux/magic.h
-
-syscall.2
- Mike Frysinger
- Add endian details with 64-bit splitting
- Architectures that split 64-bit values across register pairs
- usually do so according to their C ABI calling convention (which
- means endianness). Add some notes to that effect, and change the
- readahead example to show a little endian example (since that is
- way more common than big endian).
-
- Also start a new list of syscalls that this issue does not apply
- to.
- Mike Frysinger
- Note parisc handling of aligned register pairs
- While parisc would normally have the same behavior as ARM/PowerPC,
- they decide to write shim syscall stubs to unpack/realign rather
- than expose the padding to userspace.
-
-tkill.2
- Jann Horn
- Document EAGAIN error for real-time signals
-
-truncate.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note use of ftruncate() for POSIX shared memory objects
-
-unlink.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- ERRORS: add EPERM error for immutable/read-only files
-
-vfork.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Explain why the child should not call exit(3)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Another reason to use vfork() is to avoid overcommitting memory
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note some caveats re the use of vfork()
- Inspired by Rich Felker's post at http://ewontfix.com/7/.
- See also https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14749 and
- See also https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14750.
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add _exit(2)
-
-write.2
- Michael Kerrisk [Kai NODA]
- Alert the reader that there is a limit on 'count'
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86061
-
-aio_suspend.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that the glibc implementation is not async-signal-safe
- See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13172
-
-backtrace.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add addr2line(1) and gdb(1)
-
-bcmp.3
-bcopy.3
-bzero.3
-memccpy.3
-memchr.3
-memcmp.3
-memcpy.3
-memfrob.3
-memmem.3
-memmove.3
-memset.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add bstring(3)
-
-exec.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- execl() and execle() were not async-signal-safe before glibc 2.24
-
-fopen.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Helmut Eller]
- Describe freopen() behavior for NULL pathname argument
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191261
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note the open(2) flags that correspond to the 'mode' argument
- Michael Kerrisk
- Change argument name: 'path' to 'pathname'
- For consistency with open(2).
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add subsection headings for each function
-
-fts.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Use better argument name for fts_children() and fts_set()
- Michael Kerrisk
- Fix minor error in FTSENT structure definition
- Michael Kerrisk
- Improve explanation of 'fts_errno'
- Michael Kerrisk
- Give a hint that there are further fields in the FTSENT structure
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify meaning of zero as 'instr' value for fts_set()
-
-ftw.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Correctly handle use of stat info for FTW_NS in example program
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify that stat buffer is undefined for FTW_NS
-
-getline.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- EXAMPLE: better error handling
- Michael Kerrisk [Kent Fredic]
- EXAMPLE: handle null bytes in input
- Jann Horn
- Document ENOMEM error case
- see the error handling in libio/iogetdelim.c
- Michael Kerrisk
- EXAMPLE: specify file to be opened as command-line argument
- Michael Kerrisk
- Use better variable name in example program
-
-getmntent.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Anders Thulin]
- Prefer '\\' as the escape to get a backslash
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191611
-
-getopt.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Reword discussion of error handling and reporting
- The existing description was hard to understand. Break
- it into a bullet list that separates out the details
- in a manner that is easier to parse.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Correct details of use of <stdio.h> to get getopt() declaration
- Michael Kerrisk [John Wiersba]
- Remove some redundant text
-
-mq_open.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Adam Martindale]
- Include definition of the 'mq_attr' structure in this man page
- Make the reader's life a little easier by saving them from
- having to refer to mq_getattr(3).
-
-mq_send.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Adam Martindale]
- Refer to mq_overview(7) for details on range of message priority
-
-__ppc_set_ppr_med.3
- Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
- Note need for _ARCH_PWR8 macro
- The _ARCH_PWR8 macro must be defined to get the
- __ppc_set_ppr_very_low() and __ppc_set_ppr_med_high()
- definitions.
-
-printf.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document nonstandard 'Z' modifier
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document 'q' length modifier
- Michael Kerrisk [Erik Roland van der Meer]
- Fix a small bug in example code
- Move the second call to va_end(ap) to above the if-block that
- precedes it, so that the va_list 'ap' will be cleaned up in
- all cases.
- Michael Kerrisk [Nadav Har'El]
- As a nonstandard extension, GNU treats 'll' and 'L' as synonyms
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190341.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add references to setlocale(3) in discussions of locales
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: remove bogus self reference (dprintf(3))
-
-random.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Relocate information of "optimal" value of initstate() 'n' argument
- The information was a bit hidden in NOTES.
-
-random_r.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Jan Ziak]
- 'buf.state' must be initialized to NULL before calling initstate_r()
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192801.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add some usage notes for setstate_r()
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that 'buf' records a pointer to 'statebuf'
- See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3662.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add BUGS section pointing out the weirdness of the initstate_r() API
-
-resolver.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG are deprecated
- These options were never implemented; since glibc 2.25, they
- are deprecated.
- Michael Kerrisk
- The RES_NOIP6DOTINT is removed in glibc 2.25
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that RES_BLAST was unimplemented and is now deprecated
- Michael Kerrisk
- RES_USE_INET6 is deprecated since glibc 2.25
- Michael Kerrisk
- RES_USEBSTRING was removed in glibc 2.25
-
-resolver.3
-resolv.conf.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that RES_USEBSTRING defaults to off
-
-scandir.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Ian Jackson]
- Fix errors in example program
- See http://bugs.debian.org/848231.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Improve logic of the example program
-
-scanf.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document the quote (') modifier for decimal conversions
-
-sem_post.3
-setjmp.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add signal-safety(7)
-
-sem_wait.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Fabjan Sukalia]
- Remove statement that SA_RESTART does not cause restarting
- This has not been true since Linux 2.6.22. The description
- of EINTR maintains a reference to signal(7), which explains
- the historical details.
-
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192071
-
-sleep.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysiner]
- Note that sleep() is implemented via nanosleep(2)
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73371.
- Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
- Note that sleep() sleeps for a real-time number of seconds
- See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73371.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Convert BUGS text to "Portability notes" subsection
- The existing text is not a bug, as such.
- Michael Kerrisk
- DESCRIPTION: minor reworking
-
-strerror.3
- Heinrich Schuchardt
- Indicate reasonable buffer size for strerror_r() and strerror_l()
- Add a hint which buffer size is needed for
- strerror_r() and strerror_l().
-
-strverscmp.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Vivenzio Pagliari]
- Fix comparison error in example program
-
-system.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- In the glibc implementation, fork handlers are not executed by system()
-
-random.4
- Michael Kerrisk [Jon Jensen]
- Note that entropY-avail will be a number in the range 0..4096
-
-core.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify that dumping program's initial CWD is root directory
- Michael Kerrisk
- The target of core dump piping can also be a script
-
-filesystems.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add btrfs(5), nfs(5), tmpfs(5)
-
-intro.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document the reality that by now Section 5 also covers filesystems
- There are by now, from various filesystem projects, various
- pages in Section 5 that document different filesystems.
- Change intro(5) to reflect that.
-
- Documented after following: http://bugs.debian.org/847998
-
-proc.5
- Mike Frysinger [Michael Kerrisk]
- Clarify /proc/pid/environ behavior
- /proc/pid/environ reflects process environment at
- *start* of program execution; it is set at time of execve(2)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to slabinfo(5) in discussion of /proc/meminfo 'Slab' field
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add entries for "keys" files that refer reader to keyrings(7)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove duplicate /proc/[pid]/seccomp entry
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention other system calls that create 'anon_inode' file descriptors
- Mention a few other system calls that create file descriptors
- that display an 'anon_inode' symlink in /proc/PID/fd
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add some detail on overcommit_memory value 1
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to vdso(7) in discussion of /proc/PID/maps
-
-resolv.conf.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- ip6-bytestring was removed in glibc 2.25
- Michael Kerrisk
- The ipc-dotint and no-ip6-dotint options were removed in glibc 2.25
- Michael Kerrisk
- The 'inet6' option is deprecated since glibc 2.25
-
-slabinfo.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add slabtop(1)
-
-capabilities.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Casey Schaufler]
- Add subsection with notes to kernel developers
- Provide some notes to kernel developers considering how to choose
- which capability should govern a new kernel feature.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Further enhance the recommendation against new uses of CAP_SYS_ADMIN
- Michael Kerrisk
- Explicitly point from CAP_SYS_ADMIN to "Notes for kernel developers"
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add another case for CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH
- Michael Kerrisk
- Refer to execve(2) for the reasons that file capabilities may be ignored
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document a new use of CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add some more operations governed by CAP_SYS_ADMIN
- Michael Kerrisk
- Adjust references to chattr(1) to point to ioctl_iflags(2)
-
-environ.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention prctl(2) PR_SET_MM_ENV_START and PR_SET_MM_ENV_END operations
-
-inotify.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Point out that inotify monitoring is inode based
-
-ip.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add ip(8)
-
-man.7
-uri.7
- Jakub Wilk
- Use "www.kernel.org" in example URLs
- Apparently www.kernelnotes.org is now a spam site.
-
-mount_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Rob Landley]
- Rework the discussion of defaults for mount propagation types
- Add rather more detail. In particular, note the cases where the
- default propagation type is MS_PRIVATE vs MS_SHARED.
-
-namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- EXAMPLE: fix an error in shell session
- Michael Kerrisk
- EXAMPLE: rename the example program
- Use a more generic name, since this program may be expanded
- in various ways in the future.
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add ip-netns(8)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove content split out into ioctl_ns(2)
-
-netlink.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- NETLINK_IP6_FW went away in Linux 3.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- NETLINK_W1 went away in Linux 2.6.18
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT to list
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add NETLINK_RDMA to list
- Michael Kerrisk
- NETLINK_FIREWALL was removed in Linux 3.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- NETLINK_NFLOG was removed in Linux 3.17
- Jakub Wilk
- Update libnl homepage URL
- The original URL is 404.
-
-pid_namespaces.7
-user_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Adjust references to namespaces(7) to ioctl_ns(2)
-
-pid_namespaces.7
- Keno Fischer
- CLONE_SIGHAND|CLONE_VM|CLONE_NEWPID is no longer disallowed
-
-pipe.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Since Linux 4.9, pipe-max-size is ceiling for the default pipe capacity
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify that default pipe capacity is 16 pages
- The statement that the default pipe capacity is 65536 bytes
- is accurate only on systems where the page size is 4096B.
- See the use of PIPE_DEF_BUFFERS in the kernel source.
-
-random.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention getentropy(3)
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add getentropy(3)
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add getauxval(3)
- A small hint to the reader that some random bytes arrive
- in the auxiliary vector.
-
-signal.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SIGSYS: add reference to seccomp(2)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Change description of SIGSYS to "Bad system call"
- This is the more typical definition.
- Michael Kerrisk
- SIGPIPE: add reference to pipe(7)
- Michael Kerrisk
- SIGXFSZ: add reference to setrlimit(2)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a name for SIGEMT
- Michael Kerrisk
- SIGXCPU: add reference to setrlimit(2)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Migrated signal-safety discussion to new signal-safet(7) page
-
-unix.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Sergey Polovko]
- Since Linux 3.4, UNIX domain sockets support MSG_TRUNC
- This was correctly noted in recv(2), but the unix(7) page
- was not correspondingly updated for the Linux 3.4 change.
- Michael Kerrisk [Willy Tarreau]
- Document ETOOMANYREFS for SCM_RIGHTS send exceeding RLIMIT_NOFILE limit
-
-user_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Change page cross reference: keyctl(2) ==> keyrings(7)
-
-ld.so.8
- Michael Kerrisk
- LD_BIND_NOT has effect only for function symbols
- Michael Kerrisk
- Describe use of LD_DEBUG with LD_BIND_NOT
- Michael Kerrisk
- In secure mode, LD_AUDIT restricts the libraries that it will load
- Michael Kerrisk
- LD_AUDIT understands $ORIGIN, $LIB, and $PLATFORM
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