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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.66 ====================
Released: 2014-05-08, 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:
Alan Curry <rlwinm@xxxxxxx>
Carsten Andrich <carsten.andrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
David Prévot <taffit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Eric Siegerman <pub08-knl@xxxxxxxxx>
Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx>
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@xxxxxxx>
John Marshall <jm18@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Silvan Jegen <s.jegen@xxxxxxxxx>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@xxxxxxxxx>
Steven Stewart-Gallus <sstewartgallus00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Stijn Hinterding <contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
fanotify_init.2
Heinrich Schuchardt, Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting fanotify_init(2)
fanotify_mark.2
Heinrich Schuchardt, Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting fanotify_mark(2)
sched_setscheduler.2
Michael Kerrisk
Page rewritten
Stripped out the general scheduling material, which
moved to sched(7), and rewrote much of the remainder.
Changed copyright and license since pretty much all
of the content was or is written by mtk.
fanotify.7
Heinrich Schuchardt, Michael Kerrisk
New page providing overview of the fanotify API
sched.7
Michael Kerrisk
New page providing an overview of the scheduling APIs
Most of this content derives from sched_setscheduler(2). In
preparation for adding a sched_setattr(2) page, it makes
sense to isolate out this general content to a separate
page that is referred to by the other scheduling pages.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
fallocate.2
Lukas Czerner [Michael Kerrisk]
Document FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE
FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE was added in Linux 3.14,
for zeroing ranges in the allocated space in a file.
rename.2
Miklos Szeredi [Michael Kerrisk]
Document renameat2() system call added in Linux 3.15
shmop.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document SHM_EXEC
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk
Employ term "open file description" in DESCRIPTION
And include reference to open(2) for an explanation of the term.
getpriority.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add sched(7)
getsockopt.2
Carsten Andrich
SEE ALSO: add packet(7)
link.2
Michael Kerrisk [Steven Stewart-Gallus]
Document ENOENT error for linkat()
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73301
msgget.2
Michael Kerrisk
Reword EEXIST error
msgop.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note capability required to raise MQ size beyond MSGMNB
msync.2
Michael Kerrisk [Heinrich Schuchardt]
s/flushes... back to disk/flushes... back to filesystem/
nice.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add sched(7)
open.2
Peter Schiffer
Update note on alignment of user buffer and file offset for O_DIRECT
The sentence in open(2) man page in notes for O_DIRECT flag:
"Under Linux 2.6, alignment to 512-byte boundaries suffices."
is not universally correct. The alignment is a property of the
storage, for example, 4k-sector drives with no 512 byte sector
emulation will be unable to perform 512-byte direct I/O.
Michael Kerrisk
Note some of the various synonyms for "open file description"
Michael Kerrisk
Remove repetitious text on use of fcntl() to change file status flags
open_by_handle_at.2
Michael Kerrisk
Mention FreeBSD analogs
posix_fadvise.2
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Siegerman]
Fix wording error under "Architecture-specific variants"
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75431
process_vm_readv.2
Michael Kerrisk [Stijn Hinterding]
Add feature test macro requirements
The _GNU_SOURCE FTM must be defined.
read.2
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: detail nonatomicity bug with respect to file offset updates
This bug was fixed in Linux 3.14, with commit
9c225f2655e36a470c4f58dbbc99244c5fc7f2d4
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1649458
sched_get_priority_max.2
Michael Kerrisk
Small changes consistent with migration of content to sched(7)
sched_rr_get_interval.2
Michael Kerrisk
Small changes consistent with migration of content to sched(7)
sched_setaffinity.2
Michael Kerrisk
Small changes consistent with migration of content to sched(7)
sched_setparam.2
Michael Kerrisk
Small changes consistent with migration of content to sched(7)
sched_yield.2
Michael Kerrisk
Small changes consistent with migration of content to sched(7)
semget.2
Michael Kerrisk
Consolidate discussion on noninitialization of semaphores
The fact that semget() does not initialize the semaphores
in a new set was covered in two places (in DESCRIPTION
and BUGS). Consolidate these into one place (in NOTES)
and also point out that POSIX.1-2008 says that a future
version of the standard may require an implementation to
initialize the semaphores to 0.
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify SEMMNS versus SEMMSL*SEMMNI
Michael Kerrisk
Rework EINVAL text a little
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify wording for EEXIST error
shmget.2
Manfred Spraul
Clarify SHMALL
The default for SHMALL is a limit of 8 GB, regardless of
PAGE_SIZE. The current documentation does not mention that
and is therefore more difficult to understand than necessary.
Manfred Spraul
Correct math error
2097152 is 2^21, not 2^20.
Michael Kerrisk
Reword EEXIST error
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify one of the EINVAL cases
Michael Kerrisk
Note that SHM_NORESERVE is a Linux extension
Michael Kerrisk [Simon Paillard]
Fix kernel version numbers in discussion of SHMALL
Michael Kerrisk
Rework EINVAL text
Michael Kerrisk
Move and rework discussion of mode bits
Michael Kerrisk
Reword description of O_EXCL
shmop.2
Michael Kerrisk
Move fork(2), execve(2), _exit(2) discussion to NOTES
Michael Kerrisk
Add subheads for shmat() and shmdt()
Michael Kerrisk
Rework discussion of SHM_RDONLY and SHM_REMAP into list format
Michael Kerrisk
Structure the attach cases as a list
sigaction.2
Alan Curry
Fix bad cross reference (times(2) not time(2))
The system call that reports child CPU usage is times(2),
not time(2).
symlink.2
Michael Kerrisk [Steven Stewart-Gallus]
Document ENOENT error for symlinkat()
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73301
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add renameat2()
And bump kernel version.
write.2
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: detail nonatomicity bug with respect to file offset updates
This bug was fixed in Linux 3.14, with commit
9c225f2655e36a470c4f58dbbc99244c5fc7f2d4
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1649458
pthread_attr_setinheritsched.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions pthread_attr_setinheritsched() and
pthread_attr_getinheritsched() are thread safe.
pthread_attr_setschedparam.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions pthread_attr_setschedparam() and
pthread_attr_getschedparam() are thread safe.
pthread_attr_setschedpolicy.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions pthread_attr_setschedpolicy() and
pthread_attr_getschedpolicy() are thread safe.
pthread_attr_setscope.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions pthread_attr_setscope() and pthread_attr_getscope()
are thread safe.
pthread_attr_setstack.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions pthread_attr_setstack() and pthread_attr_getstack()
are thread safe.
sched_getcpu.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add sched(7)
termios.3
Michael Kerrisk [Yuri Kozlov]
Rework intro text for 'c_oflag'
Michael Kerrisk
OFDEL is in POSIX.1-2001, so remove "(Not in POSIX)" text
proc.5
Jan Moskyto Matejka [Randy Dunlap]
Improve description of /proc/stat 'intr' field
The sum at the beginning of line "intr" includes also
unnumbered interrupts.
packet.7
Carsten Andrich [Neil Horman]
Improve sockopt documentation for packet sockets
Carsten Andrich [Willem de Bruijn]
PACKET_LOSS has inverse meaning
Stefan Puiu [Daniel Borkmann, Carsten Andrich]
Status in PACKET_RX_RING is actually a bit mask
Michael Kerrisk [Carsten Andrich]
SEE ALSO: add /tools/testing/selftests/net/psock_tpacket.c
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