-==================== Changes in man-pages-3.30 ====================
+==================== Changes in man-pages-3.31 ====================
-Released: 2010-11-01, Munich
+Released: ????-??-??, Munich
Contributors
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
-Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
-Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>
-David Prevot <davidp@altern.org>
-Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
-Florian Lehmann <flo.lehmann@googlemail.com>
-Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
-Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
-Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
-Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com>
-Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
-scarlettsp <scarlettsp@gmail.com>
-Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
-lio_listio.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- New page documenting lio_listio(3)
-
-kexec_load.2
- Andi Kleen
- New page documenting kexec_load(2)
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add license
- Michael Kerrisk
- Incorporate fixes from Eric W. Biederman
- Eric noted that a few instances of "virtual" should
- be "physical" and noted:
-
- There is an expectation that at hand off from sys_kexec that
- virtual and physical addresses will be identity mapped. But
- this isn't the old Alpha booting convention where you have
- a virtual address and then you have to parse the page table
- to figure out where your kernel was actually loaded.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Additions and edits by mtk
- Various wording and layout improvements.
- Fixed the name of a constant: s/KEXEC_ARCH_I386/KEXEC_ARCH_386/.
- Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
- Added VERSIONS section
- Note that CONFIG_KEXEC is needed
- Removed details of using syscall; the reader can find them in
- syscall(2).
- Added some details for KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT.
- Revised the text mentioning the kernel header, since it is
- not yet exported, and it's not certain that it will be.
-
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
-reboot.2
- Andi Kleen
- Document LINUX_REBOOT_KEXEC
- Some fix-ups by Michael Kerrisk
- Michael Kerrisk
- Place 'cmd' values in alphabetical order.
-unshare.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document CLONE_NEWIPC
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document CLONE_NEWNET
- Lucian Adrian Grijincu
- Improve description of CLONE_NEWNET
- CLONE_NEWNET creates a new network namespace from scratch.
- You don't have anything from the old network namespace in
- the new one. Even the loopback device is new.
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document CLONE_SYSVSEM
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document CLONE_NEWUTS
- Michael Kerrisk
- Relocate discussion of CAP_SYS_ADMIN to CLONE_NEWNS section
- And rewrite the EPERM description to be more general in
- preparation for the new flags to be documented.
+New and changed links
+---------------------
Global changes
--------------
-Various pages
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to feature_test_macros(7)
- Some pages simply list feature test macro requirements in
- the form:
-
- #define #GNU_SOURCE
- #include <someheader.h>
-
- For these pages, add a "See feature_test_macros(7)" comment
- on the "#define" line.
-
-Various pages
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: Remove redundant reference to feature_test_macros(7)
-
-Various pages
- David Prevot
- Use greater consistency in NAME line
- (Remove definite article at start of descriptiive clause.)
-
-Various pages
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: Place entries in correct order
-
-Various pages
- Michael Kerrisk
- SEE ALSO: Place entries in correct order
-
-Various pages
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add section number to references to functions documented in other pages
-
-Various pages
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove redundant section number in page references
- Remove section number in function references that are for
- functions documented on this page.
-
-armscii-8.7
-iso_8859-3.7
-iso_8859-4.7
-iso_8859-5.7
-iso_8859-6.7
-iso_8859-10.7
-iso_8859-11.7
-iso_8859-13.7
-iso_8859-14.7
-koi8-u.7
- David Prevot
- Capitalize hexadecimal numbers
-
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
-access.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note use of faccessat(2) for checking symbolic link permissions
- Michael Kerrisk
- Give an example of a safer alternative to using access()
-
-clone.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify when CLONE_NEWNET implementation was completed
-
-faccessat.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that faccessat() is racy
-
-fcntl.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- RETURN VALUE: Improve description of F_GETFD and F_GETFL
-
-inotify_add_watch.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Document ENOENT error
-
-mlock.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Improve wording describing /proc/PID/status /VmLck field
- Michael Kerrisk
- shmctl() SHM_LOCKed memory is not included in VmLck
-
-reboot.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Place 'cmd' values in alphabetical order
-
-subpage_prot.2
- Michael Kerrisk
- Change 1-line page description
- Michael Kerrisk
- Improvements after review by Paul Mackerras
-
-timer_settime.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Remove redundant SEE ALSO reference
-
-euidaccess.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note the use of faccessat(2) to operate on symbolic links
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that the use of euidaccess() is racy
-
-fenv.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Clarify wording relating to glibc version
-
-getgrent.3
-getgrent_r.3
-getgrnam.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Refer reader for group(5) for more info on group structure
-
-getopt.3
- Bernhard Walle
- Use constants in getopt_long() example
- The description of getopt_long() mentions the constants
- required_argument, no_argument and optional_argument.
- Use them in the example to make the code easier to understand.
-
-getpw.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Change comment describing pw_gecos
-
-getpw.3
-getpwent.3
-getpwent_r.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Refer reader to passwd(5) for more info on the passwd structure
-
-getpwent.3
-getpwnam.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Note that pw_gecos is not in POSIX
- And change the comment describing this field
-
-getpwent_r.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Change comment describing pw_gecos
-
-getpwnam.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Some rewording and restructuring
-
-sched_getcpu.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Fix feature test macro requirements
-
-strnlen.3
- Michael Kerrisk
- Fix feature test macro requirements
-
-group.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Various minor rewordings
-
-hosts.5
-protocols.5
-spufs.7
-termio.7
- David Prevot
- Remove definite article from NAME section
- Please find inline another tiny patch in order to shrink
- the definite article from some other pages (found with
- "rgrep -i ' \\\- the' man*").
-
-passwd.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Various minor rewordings
-
-proc.5
- Michael Kerrisk
- Add reference to mlock(2) for further info on /proc/PID/status VmLck
-
-armscii-8.7
- David Prevot
- Write the character set name as ArmSCII
-
-cp1251.7
- David Prevot
- Capitalize hexadecimal numbers
-
-ip.7
- David Prevot
- Fix name of socket option: s/IP_TTL/IP_TRANSPARENT/
- David Prevot
- Place socket options in alphabetical order
-
-koi8-r.7
- David Prevot
- Fix special character names
- Comparing to koi8-u.7, I noticed some inconsistencies in special
- character names. After checking with the following Unicode related
- pages, please find inline (and gzipped attached, hopefully not
- messing with encoding), a patch in order to make it right, on an
- Unicode point of view.
-
- http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2500.pdf
- http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U25A0.pdf
- http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf
- http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf
- David Prevot
- Fix SEE ALSO reference and letter names
- The koi8-r(7) (Russian Net Character Set) manual page refers
- to iso-8859-7(7) manual page, which is the Latin/Greek one.
- I guess it should refer instead to the iso-8859-5(7)
- (Latin/Cyrillic) one. This is addressed at the end of the patch.
-
- It has also been spotted that letter names are different in
- this manual page and in the Unicode related page [0], the
- first part of the page address this.
-
- 0: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf
-
-man-pages.7
- Michael Kerrisk
- Update example
- The old example used the chmod(2) man page, but the
- feature test macro requirements on that page had changed.
- Update to use an example from a different page (acct(2),
- whose feature test macro requirements are probably unlikely
- to change in the future).
offsetof(struct sockaddr_un, sun_path) + strlen() + 1
or something like that.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19812
+
+
+==================== Changes in man-pages-3.30 ====================
+
+Released: 2010-11-01, Munich
+
+
+Contributors
+------------
+
+The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
+been incorporated in changes in this release:
+
+Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
+Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>
+David Prevot <davidp@altern.org>
+Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
+Florian Lehmann <flo.lehmann@googlemail.com>
+Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
+Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
+Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
+Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
+Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com>
+Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
+scarlettsp <scarlettsp@gmail.com>
+Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
+
+Apologies if I missed anyone!
+
+
+New and rewritten pages
+-----------------------
+
+lio_listio.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ New page documenting lio_listio(3)
+
+kexec_load.2
+ Andi Kleen
+ New page documenting kexec_load(2)
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Add license
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Incorporate fixes from Eric W. Biederman
+ Eric noted that a few instances of "virtual" should
+ be "physical" and noted:
+
+ There is an expectation that at hand off from sys_kexec that
+ virtual and physical addresses will be identity mapped. But
+ this isn't the old Alpha booting convention where you have
+ a virtual address and then you have to parse the page table
+ to figure out where your kernel was actually loaded.
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Additions and edits by mtk
+ Various wording and layout improvements.
+ Fixed the name of a constant: s/KEXEC_ARCH_I386/KEXEC_ARCH_386/.
+ Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
+ Added VERSIONS section
+ Note that CONFIG_KEXEC is needed
+ Removed details of using syscall; the reader can find them in
+ syscall(2).
+ Added some details for KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT.
+ Revised the text mentioning the kernel header, since it is
+ not yet exported, and it's not certain that it will be.
+
+
+Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
+---------------------------------------------
+
+reboot.2
+ Andi Kleen
+ Document LINUX_REBOOT_KEXEC
+ Some fix-ups by Michael Kerrisk
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Place 'cmd' values in alphabetical order.
+
+unshare.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Document CLONE_NEWIPC
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Document CLONE_NEWNET
+ Lucian Adrian Grijincu
+ Improve description of CLONE_NEWNET
+ CLONE_NEWNET creates a new network namespace from scratch.
+ You don't have anything from the old network namespace in
+ the new one. Even the loopback device is new.
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Document CLONE_SYSVSEM
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Document CLONE_NEWUTS
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Relocate discussion of CAP_SYS_ADMIN to CLONE_NEWNS section
+ And rewrite the EPERM description to be more general in
+ preparation for the new flags to be documented.
+
+
+Global changes
+--------------
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Add reference to feature_test_macros(7)
+ Some pages simply list feature test macro requirements in
+ the form:
+
+ #define #GNU_SOURCE
+ #include <someheader.h>
+
+ For these pages, add a "See feature_test_macros(7)" comment
+ on the "#define" line.
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ SEE ALSO: Remove redundant reference to feature_test_macros(7)
+
+Various pages
+ David Prevot
+ Use greater consistency in NAME line
+ (Remove definite article at start of descriptiive clause.)
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ SEE ALSO: Place entries in correct order
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ SEE ALSO: Place entries in correct order
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Add section number to references to functions documented in other pages
+
+Various pages
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Remove redundant section number in page references
+ Remove section number in function references that are for
+ functions documented on this page.
+
+armscii-8.7
+iso_8859-3.7
+iso_8859-4.7
+iso_8859-5.7
+iso_8859-6.7
+iso_8859-10.7
+iso_8859-11.7
+iso_8859-13.7
+iso_8859-14.7
+koi8-u.7
+ David Prevot
+ Capitalize hexadecimal numbers
+
+
+Changes to individual pages
+---------------------------
+
+access.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Note use of faccessat(2) for checking symbolic link permissions
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Give an example of a safer alternative to using access()
+
+clone.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Clarify when CLONE_NEWNET implementation was completed
+
+faccessat.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Note that faccessat() is racy
+
+fcntl.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ RETURN VALUE: Improve description of F_GETFD and F_GETFL
+
+inotify_add_watch.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Document ENOENT error
+
+mlock.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Improve wording describing /proc/PID/status /VmLck field
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ shmctl() SHM_LOCKed memory is not included in VmLck
+
+reboot.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Place 'cmd' values in alphabetical order
+
+subpage_prot.2
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Change 1-line page description
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Improvements after review by Paul Mackerras
+
+timer_settime.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Remove redundant SEE ALSO reference
+
+euidaccess.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Note the use of faccessat(2) to operate on symbolic links
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Note that the use of euidaccess() is racy
+
+fenv.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Clarify wording relating to glibc version
+
+getgrent.3
+getgrent_r.3
+getgrnam.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Refer reader for group(5) for more info on group structure
+
+getopt.3
+ Bernhard Walle
+ Use constants in getopt_long() example
+ The description of getopt_long() mentions the constants
+ required_argument, no_argument and optional_argument.
+ Use them in the example to make the code easier to understand.
+
+getpw.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Change comment describing pw_gecos
+
+getpw.3
+getpwent.3
+getpwent_r.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Refer reader to passwd(5) for more info on the passwd structure
+
+getpwent.3
+getpwnam.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Note that pw_gecos is not in POSIX
+ And change the comment describing this field
+
+getpwent_r.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Change comment describing pw_gecos
+
+getpwnam.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Some rewording and restructuring
+
+sched_getcpu.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Fix feature test macro requirements
+
+strnlen.3
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Fix feature test macro requirements
+
+group.5
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Various minor rewordings
+
+hosts.5
+protocols.5
+spufs.7
+termio.7
+ David Prevot
+ Remove definite article from NAME section
+ Please find inline another tiny patch in order to shrink
+ the definite article from some other pages (found with
+ "rgrep -i ' \\\- the' man*").
+
+passwd.5
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Various minor rewordings
+
+proc.5
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Add reference to mlock(2) for further info on /proc/PID/status VmLck
+
+armscii-8.7
+ David Prevot
+ Write the character set name as ArmSCII
+
+cp1251.7
+ David Prevot
+ Capitalize hexadecimal numbers
+
+ip.7
+ David Prevot
+ Fix name of socket option: s/IP_TTL/IP_TRANSPARENT/
+ David Prevot
+ Place socket options in alphabetical order
+
+koi8-r.7
+ David Prevot
+ Fix special character names
+ Comparing to koi8-u.7, I noticed some inconsistencies in special
+ character names. After checking with the following Unicode related
+ pages, please find inline (and gzipped attached, hopefully not
+ messing with encoding), a patch in order to make it right, on an
+ Unicode point of view.
+
+ http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2500.pdf
+ http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U25A0.pdf
+ http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf
+ http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf
+ David Prevot
+ Fix SEE ALSO reference and letter names
+ The koi8-r(7) (Russian Net Character Set) manual page refers
+ to iso-8859-7(7) manual page, which is the Latin/Greek one.
+ I guess it should refer instead to the iso-8859-5(7)
+ (Latin/Cyrillic) one. This is addressed at the end of the patch.
+
+ It has also been spotted that letter names are different in
+ this manual page and in the Unicode related page [0], the
+ first part of the page address this.
+
+ 0: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0400.pdf
+
+man-pages.7
+ Michael Kerrisk
+ Update example
+ The old example used the chmod(2) man page, but the
+ feature test macro requirements on that page had changed.
+ Update to use an example from a different page (acct(2),
+ whose feature test macro requirements are probably unlikely
+ to change in the future).
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