man-pages-3.78 released
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The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-3.78 - man pages for Linux
Tarball download:
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Git repository:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/
Online changelog:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.78
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/01/man-pages-378-is-released.html
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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.78 ====================
Released: 2015-01-22, Munich
Contributors
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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:
Akihiro Motoki <[email protected]> Alexey Ishchuk <[email protected]> Carlos O'Donell <[email protected]> Christian Seiler <[email protected]> Daniel J Blueman <[email protected]> David Drysdale <[email protected]> David Herrmann <[email protected]> Elie De Brauwer <[email protected]> Elliot Hughes <[email protected]> Jessica McKellar <[email protected]> Kees Cook <[email protected]> Michael Hayes <[email protected]>
Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> Rich Felker <dalias-/[email protected]> Vince Weaver <[email protected]>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
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execveat.2
David Drysdale, Michael Kerrisk [Rich Felker]
New page for execveat(2)
memfd_create.2
Michael Kerrisk, David Herrmann
New page for memfd_create() system call
Including notes about file sealing
s390_pci_mmio_write.2
Alexey Ishchuk
New page for s390 s390_pci_mmio_write() and s390_pci_mmio_read()
New manual page for the new PCI MMIO memory access system calls, s390_pci_mmio_write() and s390_pci_mmio_read(), added for the s390 platform.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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fcntl.2
David Herrmann [Michael Kerrisk]
Document F_ADD_SEALS and F_GET_SEALS commands
proc.5
Elie De Brauwer
Document /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/fs/nr_open
New and changed links
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s390_pci_mmio_read.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new s390_pci_mmio_write(2) page
Changes to individual pages
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dup.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add reference to RLIMIT_NOFILE for EMFILE error
Michael Kerrisk
Add reference to RLIMIT_NOFILE for EBADF error on 'newfd'.
execve.2
fexecve.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add execveat(2)
fallocate.2
mmap.2
open.2
truncate.2
write.2
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: add EPERM for operation denied by file seal
fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: add EBUSY case for F_SETPIPE_SZ
Michael Kerrisk
Add reference to RLIMIT_NOFILE for F_DUPFD EINVAL error on 'arg'.
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: add open file description lock error cases
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update text on RLIMIT_NOFILE ceiling to refer to /proc/sys/fs/file-max
mbind.2
Michael Kerrisk [Daniel J Blueman]
Clarify EFAULT text
mmap.2
shmget.2
shm_open.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add memfd_create(2)
open.2
Michael Kerrisk
Refer to RLIMIT_NOFILE for explanation of EMFILE error
Michael Kerrisk
Add execveat(2) in system call list under "Rationale for openat()"
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver
Clarify description of overflow events
Update the perf_event_open manpage to be more consistent when discussing overflow events. It merges the discussion of poll-type notifications with those generated by SIGIO signal handlers.
This addresses the remaining FIXMEs is the document.
Vince Weaver
Remove inaccurate paragraph describing attr.config
Remove an inaccurate paragraph about values in the attr.config field. This information was never true in any released kernel; it somehow snuck into the manpage because it is still described this way in tools/perf/design.txt in the kernel source tree.
Michael Kerrisk
Correct the kernel version number for PERF_COUNT_HW_CACHE_NODE
Michael Kerrisk
Add some kernel version numbers to various fields and constants
ptrace.2
sigaction.2
seccomp.2
Kees Cook
Ptrace and siginfo details
While writing some additional seccomp tests, I realized PTRACE_EVENT_SECCOMP wasn't documented yet. Fixed this, and added additional notes related to ptrace events SIGTRAP details.
readv.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update details on glibc readv()/writev() wrapper behavior
And add a historical detail about Linux 2.0.
select.2
Michael Kerrisk
Mention RLIMIT_NOFILE as a possible cause of EINVAL error
syscall.2
Kees Cook
Add arm64 and mips
Add mips and arm64 to tables, along with some further details on these architectures,
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add s390_pci_mmio_read(2) and s390_pci_mmio_write(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Note kernel() version that introduced get_kernel_syms() Note kernel version that introduced ppc_rtas() Note kernel version that introduced create_module() Note kernel version that added setup()
Michael Kerrisk
Remove some details for sync_file_range2()
Make the table a bit simpler. The details can anyway be found in the system call man page.
utimensat.2
Michael Kerrisk [Elliot Hughes]
If both tv_sec fields are UTIME_OMIT, the file need not exist
As noted by Elliot, if both tv_sec fields are UTIME_OMIT, utimensat() will return success even if the file does not exist.
errno.3
Michael Kerrisk
The RLIMIT_NOFILE resource limit is a common cause of EMFILE
exec.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add execveat(2)
fclose.3
Carlos O'Donell
Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
Harmonize all the manual pages to use "stream" for FILE* instead of randomly using "fp" or "stream." Choosing something and being consistent helps users scan the man pages quickly and understand what they are looking at.
fexecve.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite the script+close-on-exec problem as a BUG
Also, add one or two details about this scenario.
Michael Kerrisk
The natural idiom when using fexecve() is to use the close-on-exec flag
fmemopen.3
fopencookie.3
getline.3
Michael Kerrisk
Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
getpw.3
Michael Kerrisk [Carlos O'Donell]
Describe return value when 'uid' is not found
getgrent_r.3
getmntent.3
getpwent_r.3
getspnam.3
malloc_info.3
putgrent.3
Carlos O'Donell
Consistency fix: use "stream" as name for "FILE *" argument
Harmonize all the manual pages to use "stream" for FILE* instead of randomly using "fp" or "stream." Choosing something and being consistent helps users scan the man pages quickly and understand what they are looking at.
posix_fallocate.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that posix_fallocate() is implemented using fallocate(2)
locale.5
Akihiro Motoki
Correct variable name
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Remove bogus statement about NR_OPEN being a ceiling for file-max
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