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man-pages-3.48 - man pages for Linux
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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.48 ====================
Released: 2013-03-05, 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:
Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxx>
Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@xxxxxxx>
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@xxxxxxxxxx>
Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
David Prévot <taffit@xxxxxxxxxx>
D. Barbier <bouzim@xxxxxxxxx>
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Flavio Leitner <fbl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Graham Gower <graham.gower@xxxxxxxxx>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@xxxxxxxxxx>
Kai Kunschke <kai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano@xxxxxxxxxx>
Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@xxxxxxxx>
Marshel Abraham <Marshel.Abraham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Nathan Stratton Treadway <kernelbugs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Simon Heimberg <simohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Török Edwin <edwintorok@xxxxxxxxx>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
Zack Weinberg <zackw@xxxxxxxxx>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
getunwind.2
Marcela Maslanova
New page documenting getunwind(2)
Taken from Red Hat downstream man pages set
Michael Kerrisk
Much rewriting
Some text taken from arch/ia64/kernel/unwind.c.
perfmonctl.2
Ivana Varekova
New page documenting IA-64-specific perfmonctl(2)
Taken from Red Hat downstream man pages
Michael Kerrisk
Rework discussion of PFM_CREATE_CONTEXT
Add VERSIONS and CONFORMING TO
Note that there is no glibc wrapper
Remove PFM_CREATE_EVTSETS, PFM_DELETE_EVTSETS, PFM_GETINFO_EVTSETS
These don't exist, and it appears they never have.
Fix argument types for PFM_WRITE_PMCS, PFM_WRITE_PMDS, PFM_READ_PMDS
The types that were being used don't exist!
Briefly document PFM_GET_FEATURES, PFM_DEBUG, PFM_GET_PMC_RESET_VAL
gai.conf.5
Ulrich Drepper
New page documenting gai.conf
Taken from Red Hat downstream pages
nss.conf.5
Ulrich Drepper
New page describing nss.conf
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
clock_getres.2
Cyril Hrubis
Document CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE
Cyril Hrubis
Document CLOCK_BOOTTIME
Michael Kerrisk
Some improvements to CLOCK_BOOTTIME description
ptrace.2
Denys Vlasenko
Document PTRACE_GETREGSET, PTRACE_SETREGSET, PTRACE_SEIZE, and friends
Document PTRACE_GETREGSET, PTRACE_SETREGSET,
PTRACE_SEIZE, PTRACE_INTERRUPT, and PTRACE_LISTEN.
New and changed links
---------------------
fattach.2
fdetach.2
getmsg.2
isastream.2
putmsg.2
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
New link to unimplemented.2
Taken from Red Hat downstream.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436407
Global changes
--------------
Many pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: remove unneeded double quotes in .SH headings
Many pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: remove unneeded double quotes in .SS headings
Many pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: use consistent capitalization in .SS headings
Capitalization in .SS sections across pages (and sometimes even
within a single page) is wildly inconsistent. Make it consistent.
Capitalize first word in heading, but otherwise use lower case,
except where English usage (e.g., proper nouns) or programming
language requirements (e.g., identifier names) dictate otherwise.
Many pages
Michael Kerrisk [Denys Vlasenko]
Remove double blank lines in output
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Fix order of SH sections
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
accept.2
Michael Kerrisk
NAME: Add "accept4"
access.2
Colin Walters
Note that access() may also fail for FUSE
Since in some cases (e.g. libguestfs's guestmount) it also has the
semantics where files can appear owned by root, but are actually
mutable by the user, despite what one might infer from the Unix
permissions.
getpeername.2
Michael Kerrisk [Kai Kunschke]
Clarify semantics of getpeername() for datagram sockets
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674034
getuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove duplicate section heading
mmap.2
Cyril Hrubis
Add note about partial page in BUGS section
This adds a note about Linux behavior with partial page at the end
of the object. The problem here is that a page that contains only
part of a file (because the file size is not multiple of PAGE_SIZE)
stays in page cache even after the mapping is unmapped and the file
is closed. So if some process dirties such page, other mappings
will see the changes rather than zeroes.
Michael Kerrisk [Török Edwin]
Some 'flags' values require a feature test macro to be defined
Add text to NOTES noting that some MAP_* constants are
defined only if a suitable feature test macro is defined.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542601
Cyril Hrubis
Document EOVERFLOW error
open.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify list of file creation flags
POSIX.1-2008 TC1 clarified this, so that O_CLOEXEC,
O_DIRECTORY, and O_NOFOLLOW are also in this list.
prctl.2
Cyrill Gorcunov
Add some details for PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS
read.2
Michael Kerrisk [Zack Weinberg]
Clarify interaction of count==0 and error checking
POSIX deliberately leaves this case open, so the man
page should be less specific about what happens.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533232
Michael Kerrisk [Marc Lehmann]
Remove crufty text about O_NONBLOCK on files
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700529
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify details for seekable files
unimplemented.2
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
Add various STREAMS interfaces to NAME
Taken from Red Hat downstream.
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436407
cexp2.3
Michael Kerrisk
Still does not exist in glibc 2.17
exit.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that a call to execve() clears exit handler registrations
getaddrinfo.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add gai.conf(5)
malloc_trim.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove duplicate section title
printf.3
Marshel Abraham [Graham Gower, Graham Gower]
Fix error handling in example code
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23282
pthread_yield.3
Michael Kerrisk [Aristeu Rozanski]
Add _GNU_SOURCE feature test macro to SYNOPSIS
resolver.3
resolv.conf.5
Michael Kerrisk [Nathan Stratton Treadway, Simon Heimberg]
RES_DEBUG is only available if glibc is compiled with debug support
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692136
and https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43061
strtol.3
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
Remove crufty text from previous fix
core.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document CONFIG_COREDUMP
capabilities.7
Andrey Vagin
Nonexistent bits are no longer shown as set in /proc/PID/status Cap*
inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk
A monitoring process can't easily distinguish events triggered by itself
ip.7
Flavio Leitner [Peter Schiffer]
Improve explanation about calling listen() or connect()
man-pages.7
Michael Kerrisk
Describe rules for capitalization in .SS headings
rtnetlink.7
Pavel Emelyanov
Add info about ability to create links with given index
Since kernel v3.7 the RTM_NEWLINK message now accepts nonzero
values in ifi_index field. Mention this fact in the respective
rtnetlink.7 section.
socket.7
Pavel Emelyanov
SO_BINDTODEVICE is now readable
SO_BINDTODEVICE is readable since since kernel 3.8.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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