-==================== Changes in man-pages-4.15 ====================
+==================== Changes in man-pages-5.07 ====================
-Released: 2018-02-02, Palo Alto
+Released: ????-??-??, Munich
Contributors
in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
incorporated in changes in this release:
-Adam Liddell <ml+kernel.org@aliddell.com>
-Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
-Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
-Elie Roudninski <xademax@gmail.com>
-Eric Benton <erbenton@comcast.net>
-Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
-G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
-Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
-Joel Williamson <jwilliamson@carnegietechnologies.com>
-John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
-Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
-Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
-Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
-NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
-Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com>
-Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
-Pradeep Kumar <pradeepsixer@gmail.com>
-QingFeng Hao <haoqf@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-Ricardo Biehl Pasquali <pasqualirb@gmail.com>
-roblabla <man-pages@roblab.la>
-Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
-Shawn Landden <slandden@gmail.com>
-Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
-Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
-s390_sthyi.2
- QingFeng Hao [Michael Kerrisk]
- New page for s390-specific s390_sthyi(2)
-
-network_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page describing network namespaces
- Based on content moved from namespaces(7)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Reorganize text
- No content changes...
- Michael Kerrisk
- When a NW namespace is freed, veth devices are destroyed
-
-vsock.7
- Stefan Hajnoczi [Jorgen Hansen, Michael Kerrisk]
- Document the VSOCK socket address family
-
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
-cgroups.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Tejun Heo]
- Document cgroups v2 "thread mode"
- Michael Kerrisk [Tejun Heo]
- Document cgroup v2 delegation via the 'nsdelegate' mount option
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document the cgroup.max.depth and cgroup.max.descendants files
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document 'release_agent' mount option
- Michael Kerrisk [Roman Gushchin]
- Document /sys/kernel/cgroup/delegate
- Michael Kerrisk [Roman Gushchin]
- Document /sys/kernel/cgroup/features
- Michael Kerrisk [Roman Gushchin]
- Document cgroups v2 cgroup.stat file
+
+New and changed links
+---------------------
Global changes
--------------
-Various pages
- G. Branden Robinson
- Standardize on "nonzero"
- Also add this term to the style guide in man-pages(7).
-
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
-bpf.2
- Nikolay Borisov
- Sync list of supported map types with 4.14 kernel
-
-copy_file_range.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Library support was added in glibc 2.27
- Shawn Landden
- glibc provides a user-space emulation where the system call is absent
- Florian Weimer
- EFBIG errors are possible, similar to write(2)
- Michael Kerrisk
- ERRORS: add EISDIR
- Michael Kerrisk
- Order ERRORS alphabetically
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add comment to code example explaining use of syscall(2)
-
-fcntl.2
-read.2
-write.2
- NeilBrown
- Document "Lost locks" as cause for EIO.
- If an advisory lock is lost, then read/write requests on any
- affected file descriptor can return EIO - for NFSv4 at least.
-
-memfd_create.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- glibc support for memfd_create() was added in version 2.27
-
-mlock.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Make details for MLOCK_ONFAULT a little more explicit
- Michael Kerrisk
- glibc support for mlock2() is added in version 2.27
-
-mmap.2
- John Hubbard [Michael Hocko]
- MAP_FIXED is no longer discouraged
- MAP_FIXED has been widely used for a very long time, yet the man
- page still claims that "the use of this option is discouraged".
- John Hubbard
- MAP_FIXED updated documentation
- -- Expand the documentation to discuss the hazards in
- enough detail to allow avoiding them.
-
- -- Mention the upcoming MAP_FIXED_SAFE flag.
-
- -- Enhance the alignment requirement slightly.
-
-mount.2
- Keno Fischer [Michael Kerrisk]
- Add EINVAL error condition when MS_BINDing MNT_LOCKED submounts
-
-mprotect.2
-pkey_alloc.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Glibc support for memory protection keys was added in version 2.27
-
-perf_event_open.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add perf(1)
-
-pkey_alloc.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify description of pkey_alloc() 'flags' argument
-
-prctl.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Defer to capabilities(7) for discussion of the "keep capabilities" flag
-
-recvmmsg.2
-sendmmsg.2
- Nikola Forró
- Point out that error handling is unreliable
-
-seccomp.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify that SECCOMP_RET_TRAP SIGSYS signal is thread-directed
-
-syscalls.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add s390-specific s390_sthyi(2) to syscall list
-
-unshare.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify the EUSERS occurred only until kernel 4.8
-
-errno.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- 'errno -s' can be used to search for errors by string in description
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add Linux error text corresponding to ENOMEM
-
-fgetpwent.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add missing ATTRIBUTES preamble
-
-fts.3
- Michael Kerrisk [Pradeep Kumar]
- fts_pathlen = strlen(fts_path) + strlen(fts_name)
-
-fuse.4
- Michael Kerrisk
- Places errors in alphabetical order (no content changes)
-
-veth.4
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add network_namespaces(7)
-
-sysfs.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Refer to cgroups(7) for information about files in /sys/kernel/cgroup
-
-capabilities.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note which capability sets are affected by SECBIT_NO_SETUID_FIXUP
- Note explicitly that SECBIT_NO_SETUID_FIXUP is relevant for
- the permitted, effective, and ambient capability sets.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Deemphasize the ancient prctl(2) PR_SET_KEEPCAPS command
- The modern approach is SECBITS_KEEP_CAPS.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify effect of CAP_SETFCAP
- Make it clear that CAP_SETFCAP allows setting arbitrary
- capabilities on a file.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify which capability sets are effected by SECBIT_KEEP_CAPS
- This flag has relevance only for the process permitted and
- effective sets.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rephrase CAP_SETPCAP description
- * Mention kernel versions.
- * Place current kernel behavior first
- Michael Kerrisk
- SECBIT_KEEP_CAPS is ignored if SECBIT_NO_SETUID_FIXUP is set
- Michael Kerrisk
- Ambient set is also cleared when UIDs are set to nonzero value
-
-cgroups.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a more complete description of cgroup v1 named hierarchies
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add a section on unmounting cgroup v1 filesystems
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add subsection describing cgroups v2 subtree delegation
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention ENOENT error that can occur when writing to subtree_control file
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add list of currently available version 2 controllers
- Nikolay Borisov
- Add information about RDMA controller
- Michael Kerrisk
- Rewrite the description of cgroup v2 subtree control
- Michael Kerrisk [Tejun Heo]
- Note Linux 4.11 changes to cgroup v2 delegation containment rules
- Michael Kerrisk
- systemd(1) nowadays automatically mounts the cgroup2 filesystem
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify that cgroup.controllers is read-only
- Michael Kerrisk
- Elaborate a little on problems of splitting threads across cgroups in v1
- Michael Kerrisk [Tejun Heo]
- Tweak the description of delegation of cgroup.subtree_control
-
-ip.7
- Ricardo Biehl Pasquali
- INADDR_* values cannot be assigned directly to 's_addr'
- Michael Kerrisk
- s/INADDR_ANY/INADDR_LOOPBACK/ in discussion of htonl()
- INADDR_LOOPBACK is a better example, since it is not
- byte-order neutral.
-
-namespaces.7
-network_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Move content from namespaces(7) to network_namespaces(7)
-
-pid_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: add mount_namespaces(7)
-
-sched.7
- Michael Kerrisk [Andrea Parri]
- Correctly describe effect of priority changes for RT threads
- The placement of a thread in the run queue for its new
- priority depends on the direction of movement in priority.
- (This appears to contradict POSIX, except in the case of
- pthread_setschedprio().)
-
-user_namespaces.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Mention NS_GET_OWNER_UID ioctl() operation
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