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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.71 ====================
Released: 2014-08-17, Chicago
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:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Damir Nedzibovic <d.nedzibovic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
David Prévot <taffit@xxxxxxxxxx>
D. Barbier <bouzim@xxxxxxxxx>
Jakub Wilk <jwilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup@xxxxxxxxxx>
Marko Myllynen <myllynen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx>
Peng Haitao <penght@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Rahul Bedarkar <rahulbedarkar89@xxxxxxxxx>
Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Ryan Hammonds <rhammonds@xxxxxxxxxx>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@xxxxxxxxxx>
Ville Ylenius <ville@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
group_member.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting group_member(3)
isfdtype.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting isfdtype(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver
Document new comm_exec flag
Linux 3.16 (more specifically, commit 82b897782d10fcc4 )
added support for differentiating between process renames
caused by exec versus those caused by other methods.
Vince Weaver
Document new mmap2 record type
Linux 3.16 (more specifically, commit a5a5ba72843dd05f9 )
enabled the enhanced mmap2 record support.
The interface was added in Linux 3.12 but disabled until
Linux 3.16.
Vince Weaver
Document PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND
Linux 3.16 (more specifically, commit bac52139f0b7ab31330 )
adds support for gathering PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_COND
conditional branch values when doing PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK
sampling.
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/PID/comm
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/PID/pagemap
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/PID/personality
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/PID/syscall
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/kpagecount
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/kpageflags
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_kbytes
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add CAP_AUDIT_READ
CAP_AUDIT_READ is new in Linux 3.16.
Global changes
--------------
ldd.1
clone.2
execve.2
getpagesize.2
ioperm.2
msgop.2
readv.2
recv.2
select.2
send.2
seteuid.2
shmop.2
signal.2
sync.2
sysinfo.2
utime.2
abs.3
atoi.3
catopen.3
clearenv.3
ctime.3
des_crypt.3
ecvt.3
flockfile.3
fseeko.3
ftime.3
ftok.3
ftw.3
getcwd.3
getdtablesize.3
getline.3
getpass.3
getpass.3
getutent.3
glob.3
insque.3
lseek64.3
memmem.3
mkstemp.3
mktemp.3
on_exit.3
openpty.3
putenv.3
putenv.3
qecvt.3
realpath.3
realpath.3
remove.3
setbuf.3
sigpause.3
strftime.3
strptime.3
tzset.3
xcrypt.3
utmp.5
environ.7
ipv6.7
packet.7
Michael Kerrisk
Remove ancient Linux libc details
access.2
brk.2
chmod.2
eventfd.2
gethostname.2
getpriority.2
mmap.2
poll.2
ptrace.2
readv.2
sched_setaffinity.2
select.2
seteuid.2
signalfd.2
sync_file_range.2
timer_create.2
uname.2
wait.2
Michael Kerrisk
NOTES: add "C library/kernel ABI differences" subheading
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
Michael Kerrisk
Glibc falls back to using access() on kernels that lack faccessat()
bdflush.2
fsync.2
sync.2
proc.5
Adrian Bunk
Change "sync(1)" to "sync(8)"
bind.2
Michael Kerrisk [Ryan Hammonds]
Correct EINVAL error description
As pointed out by Ryan:
My application is trying to bind an IPv4 UDP socket to an
address. I've found that passing an invalid address length
to bind() causes bind to return EINVAL. According to the
bind(2) manpage, this should only occur when using unix
domain sockets (which I am not).
chmod.2
Michael Kerrisk
Glibc falls back to chmod() on kernels that don't support fchmodat()
Michael Kerrisk
Glibc falls back to chown()/lchown() on kernels that lack fchownat()
epoll_wait.2
Michael Kerrisk
NOTES: describe raw epoll_pwait() system call differences
getgroups.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add group_member(3)
getpriority.2
Michael Kerrisk
Enhance discussion of kernel nice range versus user-space nice range
Michael Kerrisk
Move text describing nice range on other systems
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add cross reference to core(5) in discussion of RLIMIT_CORE
Michael Kerrisk
Describe the "large" resource limit bug on 32-bit platforms
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5042.
Michael Kerrisk
Glibc's setrlimit() and getrlimit() are implemented using prlimit()
kexec_load.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note limit of 16 for 'nr_segments'
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify the 'flags' bits that contain the architecture
Michael Kerrisk
Add KEXEC_ARCH_68K to list of architectures for 'flags'
Michael Kerrisk
Reword description of 'flags' a little
link.2
Michael Kerrisk
Glibc falls back to link() on kernels that lack linkat()
Unless 'flags' contains AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW.
mkdir.2
Michael Kerrisk
Glibc falls back to mkdir() on kernels that don't support mkdirat()
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver
Clarify PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER usage
This clarifies the PERF_SAMPLE_STACK_USER section.
I found these issue while implementing some code that uses
the option. The important change is fixing the name of the
sample_stack_user parameter, the rest is just some wording
fixes and minor clarifications.
Vince Weaver
Clarify PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC usage
When checking the fields in the PERF_SAMPLE_DATA_SRC type samples
you need to shift the masks before doing the compare.
Although the value you are checking (perf_mem_data_src) is
specified as a bitfield so this might all fall apart if trying
to access the field in a cross-endian way. The Power people
were working on this issue, not sure if they resolved it.
poll.2
Michael Kerrisk
Describe fifth argument (sigsetsize) of raw ppoll() system call
process_vm_readv.2
Michael Kerrisk [Ville Ylenius]
Fix typo in example program
readlink.2
Michael Kerrisk
Glibc falls back to readlink() on kernels that lack readlinkat()
recv.2
Michael Kerrisk
'addrlen' should be NULL (not 0) if we don't need sender address
rename.2
Michael Kerrisk
Glibc falls back to rename() when the kernel doesn't have renameat()
sigwaitinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk
The raw sigtimedwait() system call has a fifth argument
symlink.2
Michael Kerrisk
Glibc falls back to symlink() on kernels that lack symlinkat()
sysinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add VERSIONS section
unlink.2
Michael Kerrisk
Glibc falls back to unlink() or rmdir() on kernels that lack unlinkat()
atoi.3
Michael Kerrisk
Downgrade discussion of atoq()
Remove most references to atoq() in this page, since this function
was present only in Linux libc (not glibc).
cerf.3
cexp2.3
clog2.3
Michael Kerrisk
Update version number on "Not yet in glibc" sentence
fgetgrent.3
getgrent.3
getgrent_r.3
getgrnam.3
Michael Kerrisk [Rob Landley]
Clarify that 'gr_mem' is a NULL-terminated array of pointers
fseeko.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add VERSIONS section
ftw.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add VERSIONS section
getauxval.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document ENOENT error
And add an entry to BUGS explaining the ambiguity that was
present before the addition of this error.
getgrouplist.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add group_member(3)
getline.3
Rahul Bedarkar
Close opened file at end of example program
memmem.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite text of glibc 2.0 bug
printf.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jakub Wilk]
Clarify details of the %n conversion specifier
See http://bugs.debian.org/756602
Michael Kerrisk [Jakub Wilk]
Note use of 'j', 'z', and 't' length modifiers for '%n'
See http://bugs.debian.org/756602
Michael Kerrisk
Update with some SUSv3 details
setbuf.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove ancient Linux libc and 4.x BSD details
strstr.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove discussion of Linux libc bugs
Linux libc is old enough that we needn't care any longer.
strtod.3
Michael Kerrisk
Explain NAN(n-char-sequence)
strtod.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add nan(3), nanf(3), NANL(3)
updwtmp.3
Michael Kerrisk
Replace AVAILABILITY section with note to link logwtmp() using -lutil
Linux libc details are no longer needed these days.
core.5
Rahul Bedarkar
Close opened file in example program
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Fix kernel version numbers for /proc/PID/stat fields
proc.5
Jan Chaloupka
Add missing proc stats fields
Adding missing proc stats fields from
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Michael Kerrisk [Simon Paillard]
Remove crufty text under 'timer_stats'
Michael Kerrisk
Update /proc/PID/stat 'state' field documentation
Michael Kerrisk
Improve description of /proc/PID/stat fields added in Linux 3.3 and 3.5
Michael Kerrisk
Refer to getauxval(3) in discussion of /proc/PID/auxv
Michael Kerrisk
Rework formatting of /proc/PID/stat list
Make the field numbers more prominent.
Michael Kerrisk
Note that /proc/PID/cmdline is read-only
Michael Kerrisk
Rework discussion of CommitLimit and /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
Michael Kerrisk
Improve discussion of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio
charsets.7
David Prévot [Marko Myllynen]
Tidy up list
Remove German from main list, to be consistent with earlier
removal of Dutch and French (in commit a8ed5f7430e0d1).
inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk
Note that IN_ONLY_DIR can be used to avoid races
Michael Kerrisk
Note that insertion of IN_MOVED_FROM+IN_MOVED_TO pair is not atomic
Michael Kerrisk
Mention use of timeout when reading IN_MOVED_TO after IN_MOVED_FROM
man-pages.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of "C library/kernel ABI differences" subsection
Michael Kerrisk
Rework text describing sections (stylistic improvements)
vdso.7
Mike Frysinger
Add new i386 vdso symbols in Linux 3.15
Michael Kerrisk
Note kernel version that exports new i386 symbols (Linux 3.15)
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