==================== Changes in man-pages-2.00 ====================
Released: 2004-12-16
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alberto Bertogli <albertogli@telpin.com.ar>
Anand Kumria <wildfire@progsoc.org>
Andrey Kiselev <dron@ak4719.spb.edu>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Chris Green <cmg@dok.org>
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Emmanuel Colbus <emmanuel.colbus@ensimag.imag.fr>
Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
Eric Estievenart <eric.estievenart@free.fr>
Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Jan Kuznik <kuznik@gepro.cz>
Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.de>
John V. Belmonte <jbelmonte@debian.org>
Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
Luis Javier Merino Morán <ljmerino@pandasoftware.es>
Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
Richard Kreckel <Richard.Kreckel@ginac.de>
Vasya Pupkin <ptushnik@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Fabian Kreutz
Many math pages had their synopses compressed, as per suggestion
from Fabian Kreutz.
Various pages
Fabian Kreutz / aeb
Many minor content and formatting bug fixes were made to the math
pages, following suggestions from Fabian Kreutz (who recently
translated many of the 1.70 math pages into German) and
Andries Brouwer.
Various pages
mtk
For consistency, all instances of "super-user" were changed
to the more common "superuser".
Various pages
Vasya Pupkin / mtk
After a note from Vasya Pupkin, I added <errno.h> to the SYNOPSIS
of several Section 2 pages using the _syscallN() macros.
In addition:
-- erroneous semicolons at the end of _syscallN() were removed
on various pages.
-- types such as "uint" in syscallN() declarations were changed
to "unsigned int", etc.
-- various other minor breakages in the synopses were fixed.
The affected pages are:
getdents.2
gettid.2
llseek.2
mmap2.2
modify_ldt.2
pivot_root.2
quotactl.2
readdir.2
sysctl.2
syslog.2
tkill.2
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bind.2
Florian Weimer
Added 'const' to declaration of 'my_addr' in prototype.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239762.
fcntl.2
Martin Pool
Added O_NOATIME to list of flags that can be changed via F_SETFL.
mtk/aeb
Noted F_GETOWN bug after suggestion from aeb.
See also:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108380640603164&w=2
getrlimit.2
mtk
Material on getrusage.2 has been separated out into its own page.
Rewrote discussion on RLIMIT_MEMLOCK to incorporate kernel
2.6.9 changes.
Added note on RLIMIT_CPU error in older kernels.
Added RLIMIT_SIGPENDING.
Also made a few other minor changes.
getrusage.2
mtk
This page is new(ish) -- it was created by splitting
getrlimit.2.
Repaired note on SIGCHLD behavior to note that the
POSIX non-conformance has been fixed in 2.6.9.
kill.2
Modified after suggestion from Emmanuel Colbus
Changed wording of sentence under NOTES describing
when signals can be sent to init(1).
mlock.2
munlock.2
mlockall.2
munlockall.2
These have been consolidated into a single mlock.2 page.
In the process, much duplication was eliminated
and new information was added about RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
and the changes in memory locking in kernel 2.6.9,
mmap.2
mtk
Added cross-ref to setrlimit(2) concerning memory locking limits.
Eric Estievenart
Note that MAP_FIXED replaces existing mappings
msgctl.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added msqid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions.
msgget.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
msgop.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
open.2
Martin Pool
Added O_NOATIME (new in Linux 2.6.8)
mtk
Reordered list of 'flags' description alphabetically
personality.2
2004-11-03 applied patch from Martin Schulze
semctl.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Rewrote semun text.
Added semid_ds and ipc_perm structure definitions.
semget.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
Rewrote BUGS note about semget()'s failure to initialize
semaphore values.
semop.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
shmctl.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Updated shmid_ds structure definitions.
Added information on SHM_DEST and SHM_LOCKED flags.
Noted that CAP_IPC_LOCK is not required for SHM_UNLOCK
since kernel 2.6.9.
Added notes on 2.6.9 RLIMIT_MEMLOCK changes.
Added RLIMIT_SIGPENDING (new in Linux 2.6.8)
shmget.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Added notes on /proc files.
shmop.2
mtk
Substantial language and formatting clean-ups.
Changed wording and placement of sentence regarding attachment
of segments marked for destruction.
sigaction.2
mtk
Added mention of SIGCONT under SA_NOCLDSTOP.
Added SA_NOCLDWAIT.
Updated discussion for POSIX.1-2001 and SIGCHLD and sa_flags.
Noted that CLD_CONTINUED is supported since Linux 2.6.9.
Added SI_TKILL (new in Linux 2.4.19).
Other minor changes.
signal.2
mtk
Removed text on ignoring SIGCHLD; replaced with pointer
to sigaction.2.
sigwaitinfo.2
After bug report from Andrey Kiselev
Fixed prototype: "timeout" --> "*timeout"
as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222145
stat.2
Enrico Zini
Added text to clarify that S_IS*() macros should be applied to
st_mode field.
as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=249698
swapon.2
After Debian bug report from Anand Kumria
Added "no swap space signature" to EINVAL error.
mtk
Added EINVAL error for swapoff() ("not currently a swap area").
Added EBUSY error for swapon().
A few formatting fixes.
times.2
mtk
In Linux 2.6, the return value of times changed; it is no
longer time since boot, but rather:
boot_time + 2^32 / HZ - 300
Repaired note on SIGCHLD behavior to note that the
POSIX non-conformance has been fixed in 2.6.9.
Some formatting fixes.
undocumented.2
After bug report from Johannes Berg
Changed
.TH UNIMPLEMENTED
to:
.TH UNDOCUMENTED
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=220741
wait.2
mtk
Added waitid(2).
Added WCONTINUED and WIFCONTINUED (new in 2.6.10).
Added text on SA_NOCLDSTOP.
Updated discussion of SA_NOCLDWAIT to reflect 2.6 behavior.
Much other text rewritten.
wait4.2
mtk
Rewrote this page, removing much duplicated information,
and replacing with pointers to wait.2.
Luis Javier Merino Morán / mtk
CONFORMING TO said "SVr4, POSIX". Changed to "4.3BSD"
waitid.2
mtk
New link to wait.2
assert.3
After bug report from Branden Robinson
The assert() failure message goes to stderr not stdout.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=284814
ctime.3
mtk
Noted that 0 in tm_mday is interpreted to mean the last day
of the preceding month.
getnameinfo.3
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=229618
getnameinfo() does not set errno, it returns a non-zero
value indicating the error.
mtk
added EAI_OVERFLOW error
killpg.3
mtk
Minor changes to SEE ALSO and CONFORMING TO.
lseek64.3
aeb
New page by Andries Brouwer
tzset.3
Richard Kreckel
Change "NULL" to "empty" when talking about the value of TZ.
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=601
printf.3
After bug report from Jan Kuznik
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=205736
Fixed bad realloc() use in snprintf() example
realpath.3
mtk
Added discussion of resolved_path == NULL.
random.4
After bug report from John V. Belmonte
Updated init and quit scripts to reflect kernel 2.4/2.6 reality
(Scripts taken from drivers/char/random.c)
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=247779
proc.5
mtk
Updated description of /proc/loadavg to include
nr_running(), nr_threads, last_pid.
rtsig-max and rtsig-nr went away in 2.6.8
updated statm, and fixed error in order of list
boot.7
applied patch from Martin Schulze
capabilities.7
mtk
Added O_NOATIME for CAP_FOWNER
netdevice.7
Karel Kulhavy and AEB
Formatting fix after note from Karel Kulhavy and AEB, plus a
few wording fixes.
signal.7
mtk
/proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-* were superseded by RLIMIT_SIGPENDING
in kernel 2.6.8.
tcp.7
mtk/aeb
Updated details of interaction of TCP_CORK and TCP_NODELAY.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.01 ====================
Released: 2004-12-20
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Carsten Hey <c.hey@web.de>
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.de>
Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
Marek Habersack <grendel@debian.org>
Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Matthew Dempsky <jivera@flame.org>
Matthew Gregan <kinetik@orcon.net.nz>
Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@terra.com.br>
Tony Crawford <tony@klosterdorf.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
accept.2
close.2
send.2
setsid.2
socket.2
closedir.3
initgroups.3
mkstemp.3
opendir.3
readdir.3
telldir.3
Matthew Dempsky, mtk
triggered by http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=283179
The wording describing how errno is set was fixed up in these pages.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
sendfile.2
mtk
Adjusted descriptions of argument file types to be closer to
2.6 reality.
Wording and formatting changes.
ctan.3
ctanh.3
Tony Crawford
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270817
Formulae on the pages should be T = S / C not T = C / S.
errno.3
Martin Schulze, mtk
Removed errno declaration from prototype, added notes
on historical need for this declaration.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=174175
aio_return.3
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=224953
Changed erroneous "aio_return(2)" to "aio_return(3)".
posix_openpt.3
mtk
New by mtk
ptsname.3
mtk
Added description of ptsname_r().
Added ERRORS.
ptsname_r.3
mtk
New link to ptsname.3.
shm_open.3
Matthew Gregan
add <fcntl.h> to synopsis
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271243
strcasecmp.3
Marek Habersack
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
-BSD 4.4
+BSD 4.4, SUSv3
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=234443
strfry.3
Joshua Kwan
Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=213538
strftime.3
Cartsen Hey
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276248
Changed range for "%S" from 0..61 to 0..60.
SUSv3 says 0..60. I think the manual page probably says
0..61, because that's what SUSv2 said.
(Some other implementations' man pages also say 0..61 --
e.g., Solaris 8 & 9, Tru64 5.1B; FreeBSD 5.1 says 0..60.)
The glibc manual currently says 0..60.
Given that SUSv3 says 0..60, I've changed the
manual page to also say this:
-The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 61).
+The second as a decimal number (range 00 to 60).
+(The range is up to 60 to allow for occasional leap seconds.)
sysconf.3
Johannes Berg
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=226974
-.BR POSIX2_FORT_RUN " - " _SC_2_FORT_DEV
+.BR POSIX2_FORT_DEV " - " _SC_2_FORT_DEV
system.3
Pedro Zorzenon
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=242638
Noted use of _XOPEN_SOURCE to get macros from <stdlib.h>
for wait(2).
mtk
Changed name of argument from 'string' to 'command' (like POSIX).
Noted that glibc does nowadays explicitly check for the existence
of the shell if 'command' is NULL, rather than the older behavior
of assuming the shell exists and always returning 1 if
'command' is NULL.
Other wording and formatting clean-ups.
undocumented.3
Remove some functions names that *are* documented.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.02 ====================
Released: 2005-04-14
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
David Lloyd <dmlloyd@tds.net>
Gordon Jin <gordon.jin@intel.com>
Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Johan Walles
Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com>
Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Matthias Lang <matthias@corelatus.se>
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Michael Mühlebach <michael@anduin.ch>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Sasa Stevanovic <mg94c18@alas.matf.bg.ac.yu>
Serguei Leontiev <leo@sai.msu.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
ctime.3
tzselect.8
zdump.8
zic.8
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent newctime(3).
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=236884
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
mtk
Noted the PID caching behavior of NPTL's getpid()
wrapper under BUGS.
Added futex(2), set_thread_area(2), set_tid_address(2),
tkill(2) under SEE ALSO.
epoll_ctl.2
epoll_create.2
Marko Kohtala / mtk
Improved various error descriptions.
epoll_wait.2
David Lloyd / Mike Frysinger, Marko Kohtala
Added EINTR to errors.
fcntl.2
Jamie Lokier / mtk
Improved discussion of F_SETOWN and F_SETSIG with respect to
multi-threaded programs.
Generally cleaned up the discussion of F_SETOWN.
Updated CONFORMING TO to note that F_GETOWN and F_SETOWN are
now in POSIX.
link.2
mtk
Noted discrepancy between Linux and POSIX.1 when oldpath
is a symbolic link.
See: http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367
and: http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg08152.html
Michael Haardt / mtk
Clarified EXDEV error description: it isn't possible to link
across mount points, even if the mount points refer to the same
file system.
mincore.2
mtk, after note from Gordon Jin
Updated ERRORS.
pipe.2
As per message from Serguei Leontiev
Removed SVr2, AT&T, and BSD from CONFORMING TO, since
a pipe on those systems is actually bidirectional.
(Pipes are implemented as STREAMS on the former, and
sockets on the latter.)
posix_fadvise.2
mtk
Noted kernel version where posix_fadvise() appeared and
noted bug in handling of 'len' in kernels < 2.6.6.
rename.2
Michael Haardt
Clarified EXDEV error description: it isn't possible to rename
a file across mount points, even if the mount points refer to
the same file system.
semop.2
mtk
Noted kernel version numbers for semtimedop().
setitimer.2
Matthias Lang, mtk
Noted MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES ceiling.
Added note about treatment of out-of-range tv_usec values.
sigqueue.2
Johan Walles, Martin (Joey) Schulze
Added sigqueue.2 to SEE ALSO.
times.2
mtk
Added notes on non-standard behavior: Linux allows 'buf' to
be NULL, but POSIX.1 doesn't specify this and it's non-portable.
uselib.2
Andries Brouwer
Improved DESCRIPTION; clarified distinction between
EACCES and ENOEXEC.
bcopy.3
Heikki Orsila
bcopy() handles overlapping case, but memcpy() does not,
so for consistency memmove() should be also mentioned.
getmntent_r.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze
New link to man3/getmntent.3.
memcpy.3
Small wording change after suggestion from Sasa Stevanovic.
strcasestr.3
mtk
Created as link to strstr.3.
strftime.3
mtk
Noted that SUSv2 allowed a range of 00 to 61 for %S specifier.
strstr.3
mtk
Added description of strcasestr().
random.4
aeb
Improved description of read from /dev/urandom.
st.4
Kai Makisara
Substantial updates.
man.7
Martin Schulze
Branden Robinson
Colin Watson
Mention the .URL macro more verbosely.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.03 ====================
Released: 2005-06-02
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Johannes Nicolai <johannes.nicolai@hpi.uni-potsdam.de>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Ross Boylan <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org>
Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
console.4
console_ioctl.4
mouse.4
tty.4
vcs.4
Pavel Heimlich
Change `ttys(4)' to `ttyS(4)'.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
mtk
Substantially enhanced discussion of CLONE_THREAD.
Added CLONE_SYSVSEM, CLONE_UNTRACED, CLONE_STOPPED.
Other minor fixes.
execve.2
aeb
Noted effect of ptracing when execing a set-UID program.
fcntl.2
Johannes Nicolai / mtk
Noted F_SETOWN bug for socket file descriptor in Linux 2.4
and earlier.
Added text on permissions required to send signal to owner.
flock.2
mtk
Noted that lock conversions are not atomic.
getrusage.2
mtk
ru_nswap has never contained useful information.
Kernel 2.6.6 clarified that with a patch
("[PATCH] eliminate nswap and cnswap"). See also:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.1/0720.html
kill.2
mtk
Clarified wording of the 'pid == -1' case.
mount.2
mtk
Added MNT_EXPIRE, plus a few other tidy-ups.
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Added text to note that sched_setaffinity() will migrate the
affected process to one of the specified CPUs if necessary.
Added a NOTE to point out that the affinity mask is actually a
per-thread attribute that can be adjusted independently for
each thread in a thread group.
shmctl.2
mtk
Noted aberrant Linux behavior with respect to new attaches to a
segment that has already been marked for deletion.
Noted changes in permissions required for SHM_LOCK/SHM_UNLOCK.
wait.2
mtk
Noted that the __W* flags can't be used with waitid().
confstr.3
mtk
Added _CS_GNU_LIBC_VERSION and _CS_GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION.
hosts.5
Ross Boylan / Martin Schulze
various changes as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=304242
proc.5
mtk
Minor changes to discussion of /proc/PID/stat signal fields.
Added 'rt_priority' and 'policy' to /proc/PID/stat.
capabilities.7
mtk
1,$s/inherited/inheritable/g
regex.7
Vincent Fourmond / Joey (Martin) Schulze
Removed discussion of `[[:<:]]' and `[[:>:]]' since they do
not seem to be in the glibc implementation.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295666
tzselect.8
Joey (Martin) Schulze / Klaus Ethgen
The default zoneinfo directory is now /usr/share/zoneinfo.
(was: /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo)
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267471
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.04 ====================
Released: 2005-06-21
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Baurjan Ismagulov <ibr@ata.cs.hun.edu.tr>
Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>
Dieter Brueggemann <dieter.brueggemann@entitec.de>
Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
Guido Trotter <ultrotter@debian.org>
kabloom <kabloom@ucdavis.edu>
Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org>
Olivier Croquette <ocroquette@free.fr>
Olivier Guilyardi <ylf@xung.org>
Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>
Philipp Spitzer <philipp@toastfreeware.priv.at>
Tanaka Akira <akr@m17n.org>
Thierry Excoffier <exco@bat710.univ-lyon1.fr>
Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
For consistency across pages:
1,$s/nonzero/non-zero/g
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
pthreads.7
mtk
An overview of the Linux implementations of POSIX threads.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
_exit.2
mtk
Various minor changes.
epoll_ctl.2
Mike Furr
BUGS: In kernels < 2.6.9, EPOLL_CTL_DEL required a non-NULL
'event', even though this argument is ignored.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306517
flock.2
mtk / Kevin Ryde
Clarified semantics of relationship between flock() locks
and open file entries and file descriptors.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=291121
getitimer.2
Olivier Croquette, Thierry Excoffier
Noted the existence of the short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy).
getrlimit.2
mtk
RLIMIT_RSS only has affect "in 2.4.x", not "in 2.4 and later".
getrusage.2
Geoff Clare
Since Linux 2.6, the ru_nvcsw and ru_nivcsw fields are used.
nice.2
mtk / Guido Trotter
Rewrote description of return value.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=296183
open.2
Walter Harms
O_DIRECT needs _GNU_SOURCE.
mtk
O_ASYNC works for pipes and FIFOs in Linux 2.6.
Various minor fixes.
atexit.3
mtk
Various minor changes.
exit.3
mtk
Various minor changes.
getopt.3
mtk / Philipp Spitzer
Fix description of return value.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308359
hsearch.3
mtk
Changed (char *) to (void *) in example.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313607
log1p.3
Justin Pryzby
Make log(3) SEE ALSO log1p(3),
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309578
makecontext.3
Tanaka Akira
Fix description of RETURN VALUE for makecontext(),
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311800
on_exit.3
mtk
Various minor changes.
rand.3
kabloom
Small fix to a code example,
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=194842
realpath.3
mtk / Thomas Hood
When specifying resolved_path as NULL, realpath()
will (still) only allocate up to PATH_MAX bytes.
Plus other minor changes.
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239424
rcmd.3
Dave Love
The required header file for these functions on Linux is <netdb.h>,
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=311680
scanf.3
Olivier Guilyardi
Arg for %p is a pointer to _a pointer to_ void,
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263109
stdin.3
Vincent Lefevre
freopen() can change the descriptors associated with
stdin/stdout/stderr, as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=295859
strerror.3
Baurjan Ismagulov
strerror_r(3) requires #define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600,
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=290880
sysconf.3
Peter Cordes / mtk
Fix typo: "_SC_2_DEV" should be "_SC_2_C_DEV".
proc.5
mtk
Added pointers under /proc/sys/net to tcp.7 and ip.7.
ip.7
mtk
Various wording and formatting fixes.
Reordered /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_* file descriptions alphabetically.
tcp.7
Dieter Brueggemann / mtk
Fixes to the discussion of SIOCATMARK and tcp_stdurg.
mtk
Various wording and formatting fixes.
Incorporated some new /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_* file descriptions
from the 2.6.12 source file Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.05 ====================
Released: 2005-06-27
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
A Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Bas Zoetekouw <bas@debian.org>
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Delian Krustev <krustev@krustev.net>
Dora Anna Volgyesi <volgyesi@elte.hu>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places. (Special thanks to A Costa.)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
_exit.2
mtk / aeb
Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
function".
close.2
mtk
Clarified what type of lock close() affects.
Minor formatting changes.
dup.2
mtk
Consistent use of terms "open file description",
"file status flags", and "file descriptor flags".
Removed mention of lock sharing -- it was not accurate.
Minor formatting fixes.
fcntl.2
mtk
Consistent use of terms "open file description",
"file status flags", and "file descriptor flags".
Some rewriting of discussion of file descriptor flags
Under F_DUPFD, replaced some text duplicated in dup.2
with a cross ref to dup.2
Minor wording and formatting fixes.
fpclassify.3
mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze / Bas Zoetekouw
The return value of isinf() changed in glibc 2.02
to differentiate positive and negative infinity.
See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285765
getgid.2
getuid.2
Delian Krustev
Remove confusing text describing real and effective IDs.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285852
getitimer.2
mtk
The short sleep bug (up to 1 jiffy) that was newly noted in
man-pages-2.04 has just been fixed in 2.6.12.
getpriority.2
mtk
Changed range documented in main text from -20..20 to -20..19.
Noted that the range is -20..20 on some systems.
open.2
mtk / aeb
Clarification of term "open file description" along with
explanation of what information it maintains.
Other wording improvements.
Various minor wording changes.
atexit.3
mtk / aeb
Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
function".
mtk
Noted use of atexit() for establishing function to be invoked on
shared library unload.
Noted that atexit()-registered functions are not invoked on
abnormal termination.
Formatting fixes.
exit.3
mtk / aeb
Reversed 2.04 introduction of the term "process termination
function".
mtk
Minor rewording and formatting changes.
getloadavg.3
mtk
Added #define _BSD_SOURCE to prototype.
log2.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Add ERANGE error.
readdir.3
mtk
Added definition of Linux dirent structure.
Some formatting cleanups.
strtod.3
Dora Anna Volgyesi / mtk
strtold() and strtof() need _ISOC99_SOURCE or _XOPEN_SOURCE=600
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=246668
tdestroy.3
mtk
New link to tsearch.3.
tsearch.3
mtk
Added tdestroy to .TH line.
mem.4
mtk
Change "chown root:mem /dev/mem" to "chown root:kmem /dev/mem".
null.4
mtk
Change "chown root:mem /dev/null /dev/zero" to
"chown root:root /dev/null /dev/zero".
vcs.4
Dan Jacobson / Martin (Joey) Schulze
Replaced "selection(1)" by "gpm(8)" under SEE ALSO
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253515
signal.7
Ove Kaaven
SA_SIGACTION should be SA_SIGINFO
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305369
urn.7
mtk
New link to uri.7
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.06 ====================
Released: 2005-07-15
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Bhavesh P Davda <bhavesh@avaya.com>
Clau Weber <claus@jambit.com>
Dov Murik <dov@dv-networks.com>
David Lloyd <dlloyd@microbits.com.au>
Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Steven Murdoch <Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Many uses of hyphens and dashes were corrected.
New pages
---------
canonicalize_file_name.3
Walter Harms / mtk
Removed Pages
-------------
sstk.2
mtk
AFAIK, this system call has never actually done anything (other
than be a stub) on any Unix.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
accept.2
mtk
Various wording and formatting fixes.
bind.2
mtk
Minor formatting changes
clone.2
mtk
Various minor wording improvements; some formatting fixes
connect.2
mtk
Various wording and formatting fixes.
epoll_create.2
Bhavesh P Davda
s/positive/non-negative/ [for file descriptor]
getrlimit.2
mtk
Documented RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE limit.
RLIMIT_RSS ceased to have any effect in 2.4 in kernel 2.4.30.
(It already didn't have any effect in 2.2.x and 2.6.x.)
s/MADVISE_WILLNEED/MADV_WILLNEED/
listen.2
mtk
Removed historic comment on BSD backlog ceiling.
Minor wording and formatting changes.
semop.2
mtk
Added BUG: in some circumstances, a process that is
waiting for a semaphore to become zero is not not woken
up when the value does actually reach zero.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110260821123863&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110261701025794&w=2
socket.2
mtk
Various minor wording improvements
umask.2
mtk
Added mkdir(2) to discussion, made term "file mode creation
mask" clearer.
Various, mostly small, wording changes
errno.3
Martin Pool
Change description for ESTALE
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=237344
fgetgrent.3
getgrent.3
getgrent_r.3
David Lloyd
Added SEE ALSO putgrent(3)
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=211336
getgrent.3
getgrnam.3
getpwent.3
getpwnam.3
Lars Wirzenius / mtk
Replace mention of /etc/{passwd,group} by references to
"passwd/group database", and LDAP and NIS.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117
mtk
Miscellaneous wording improvements
Consistent DESCRIPTION and ERRORS wording across these pages.
getnameinfo.3
mtk
Relocate misplaced text describing gai_strerror().
getnetent.3
Petter Reinholdtsen
s/endservent/endnetent/
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316517
getspnam.3
Lars Wirzenius / mtk
Replace mention of /etc/shadow by references to
"shadow password database", and LDAP and NIS.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316117
mtk, Claus Weber
Miscellaneous wording improvements
Consistent DESCRIPTION wording vis-a-vis getpwnam.3 etc.
hsearch.3
Frederik Deweerdt
Fix hsearch_r() prototype
scanf.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Fix description of RETURN VALUE
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=317037
mtk
various parts substantially rewritten; added description of
%n$ form; various text incorporated from the GNU C library
documentation ((C) The Free Software Foundation).
shm_open.3
mtk
Modified details of how user and group ownership of a new
object are set.
Various minor wording and formatting cleanups.
elf.5
Mike Frysinger
tweaked the short description to include definition of 'ELF'
add ELFOSABI_NONE to the ELFOSABI_ list
tweak/add more machines to EM_ list for ehdr->e_machine
fix indenting to be consistent
tweak the display of the ELF_ST_* macros
document the Elf_Dyn structure
proc.5
mtk
Updated discussion of /proc/stat.
Added text on the /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files.
ip.7
Steven Murdoch
Change protocol in UDP prototype.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182635
tcp.7
Dov Murik
The first sentence under NOTES about SO_KEEPALIVE and SIGPIPE
makes no grammatical sense (and possibly also no technical sense).
It has been removed.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.07 ====================
Released: 2005-07-19
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
The terms "set-user-ID" and "set-group-ID" are now used
consistently (no abbreviations) across all manual pages.
Various pages
mtk
Consistent use of "saved set-user-ID" and "saved set-group-ID"
(no more "saved user ID", "saved effective UID",
saved group ID", etc.)
Various pages
mtk
Global fixes in textual descriptions:
uid --> UID
gid --> GID
pid --> PID
id --> ID
Various pages
mtk
Consistent use of st_atime, st_ctime, st_mtime, with
explanatory text, instead of atime/ctime/mtime.
Various pages
mtk
Classical BSD versions are now always named x.yBSD (formerly
there was a mix of x.yBSD and BSD x.y).
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
setresuid.2
mtk
Some rewording.
stat.2
Mike Frysinger
Improve description of st_dev and st_rdev.
mtk
Various wording and formatting improvements.
truncate.2
mtk
Some formatting fixes
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.08 ====================
Released: 2005-09-21
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Alain PORTAL <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andrew Pimlott <andrew@pimlott.net>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Baurzhan Ismagulov <ibr@radix50.net>
Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org>
Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@fujitsu-siemens.com>
David N. Welton <davidw@eidetix.com>
Dov Murik <dov@dv-networks.com>
Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Ludovic Courtes <ludovic.courtes@laas.fr>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Norbert Buchmuller <norbi.spam@nix.hu>
Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@gmail.com>
Tommy Pettersson <ptp@lysator.liu.se>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
RFC references are now always written as "RFC\ nnn"
(not "RFC nnn" or "RFCnnn").
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
du.1
Mike Frysinger
To get an effect like "-h", BLOCKSIZE must start with "human",
not "HUMAN".
time.1
Mike Frysinger
s/standard output/standard error/
clone.2
Paul Brook / mtk
Fix small error in description of CLONE_PARENT_SETTID
connect.2
Heikki Orsila
Add EINTR error
See http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/12/254
getpriority.2
mtk
Expanded discussion of relationship between user and kernel
representations of the nice value.
Added discussion of RLIMIT_NICE and a cross reference to
getrlimit.2 under the description of the EACCES error.
Noted 2.6.12 change in credentials checking for setpriority().
getrlimit.2
mtk
Added description of RLIMIT_RTPRIO
Added description of RLIMIT_NICE
mmap.2
mtk
Noted bug in MAP_POPULATE for kernels before 2.6.7.
mremap.2
mtk
Added _GNU_SOURCE to prototype.
Rewrote description of MREMAP_MAYMOVE.
Rewrote description of EAGAIN error.
Added discussion of resizing of memory locks.
Added entries to SEE ALSO.
Some formatting fixes.
msgctl.2
mtk
Added IPC_INFO, MSG_INFO, MSG_STAT descriptions.
nanosleep.2
Baurzhan Ismagulov
Add to prototype: define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314435
nice.2
mtk
Added sentence noting that range of the nice value is described
in getpriority.2.
Added cross-reference to setrlimit(2) for discussion on
RLIMIT_NICE.
outb.2
David N. Welton / Justin Pryzby / mtk
Clarified the order of value and port arguments;
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263756
pause.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO for sigsuspend.2
Some formatting fixes.
poll.2
Tommy Pettersson
nfds should be prototyped as nfds_t
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322934
mtk
Some wording and formatting improvements.
prctl.2
mtk
Since kernel 2.6.13 PR_SET_DUMPABLE can also have the value 2.
rand.3
Hrvoje Niksic / mtk
Remove misleading text describing FreeBSD's sranddev() function.
As per debian bug 328629
readv.2
mtk / Walter harms
Added LINUX NOTES on trickery performed by glibc when
vector size exceeds IOV_MAX.
Formatting clean-ups.
remap_file_pages.2
mtk
Added text to note that start and size are both rounded downward.
sched_setparam.2
mtk
Modified discussion of privileges; added pointer to
sched_setscheduler.2 for a discussion of privileges and
resource limits.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk
Modified discussion of privileges; added discussion of RLIMIT_RTPRIO.
semctl.2
mtk
Added IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO, SEM_STAT descriptions.
shmctl.2
mtk
Added IPC_INFO, SHM_INFO, SHM_STAT descriptions.
sigaction.2
mtk
Split sigpending(), sigprocmask(), and sigsuspend() out
into separate new pages.
Other minor changes
mtk
NOTES: described SA_NODEFER / sa_mask bug which was present in
all kernels up to and including 2.6.13.
See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112360948603171&w=2
and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112362164911432&w=2
List: linux-kernel
Subject: Signal handling possibly wrong
From: Bodo Stroesser
Date: 2005-08-09 17:44:06
signal.2
mtk
Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into
sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2
sigpending.2
mtk
New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
Changed CONFORMING TO.
sigprocmask.2
mtk
New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
Added text on effect of NULL for 'set' argument.
Added text noting effect of ignoring SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL,
and SIGSEGV.
Noted that sigprocmask() can't be used in multithreaded process.
Fixed EINVAL error diagnostic.
Changed CONFORMING TO.
sigsuspend.2
mtk
New page created by splitting out from sigaction.2
Added NOTES on usage.
Added new text to DESCRIPTION.
Changed CONFORMING TO.
stat.2
Mike Frysinger
Improve st_blocks description.
carg.3
Ramiro Aceves / aeb
Change:
One has carg(z) = atan(creal(z) / cimag(z))
to:
One has tan(carg(z)) = cimag(z) / creal(z)
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=326720
cmsg.3
mtk
s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/ (POSIX standard name)
dlopen.3
Alain Portal
s/-nostartupfiles/-nostartfiles/
getaddrinfo.3
mtk
Nowadays (since 2.3.4) glibc only sets the first ai_canonname
field if AI_CANONNAME was specified (the current behavior
is all that SUSv3 requires).
1,$s/PF_/AF_/g
Added descriptions of AI_ALL, AI_ADDRCONFIG, AI_V4MAPPED,
and AI_NUMERICSERV.
Some wording and formatting fixes.
getpwnam.3
Bernhard R. Link / mtk
Add NOTES text describing relationship of pw_dir and HOME and
pointing out that applications should preferentially inspect HOME.
inet.3
Mike Frysinger
Mention "little endian" and "big endian".
Added note about octal and hex interpretation of
numbers-and-dots notation.
rpc.3
mtk / Ludovic Courtes
Commented out references to rpc_secure(3) -- we don't currently
have such a page in the man-pages set.
In response to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325115
setenv.3
mtk
glibc 2.3.4 fixed the "name contains '='" bug.
strnlen.3
Mike Frysinger
Added "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to prototype.
initrd.4
Norbert Buchmuller / mtk
Added text noting that the use or real-root-dev for changing
the root device is obsolete, in favor of pivot root.
(However, the page still needs to be rewritten to actually
describe the pivot_root method...)
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323621
proc.5
mtk
Improve text describing /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/* files.
Describe /proc/sys/fs/suid_dumpable (new in 2.6.13).
Added placeholder mention of /proc/zoneinfo (new in 2.6.13).
More needs to be said about this file.
Repaired earlier cut and paste mistake which resulted
in part of the text of this page being duplicated.
utmp.5
Mike Frysinger
Added text on biarch details for ut_session and ut_tv.
capabilities.7
mtk
Added CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and CAP_AUDIT_WRITE.
ip.7
mtk / Andrew Pimlott
Add a couple of words to make it clear that port is a 16-bit number.
Reformat long source lines (no text changed).
s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name)
Hasso Tepper
Fix discussion of IPC_RECVTTL / IP_TTL.
signal.7
mtk
Updated SEE ALSO to reflect splitting of sigaction.2 into
sigaction.2, sigsuspend.2, sigpending.2, sigprocmask.2.
socket.7
mtk
Clarified details of use of SO_PEERCRED.
tcp.7
mtk
s/SOL_TCP/IPPROTO_TCP/ (POSIX standard name)
s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name)
udp.7
mtk
Added description of UDP_CORK socket option.
s/SOL_UDP/IPPROTO_UDP/ (POSIX standard name)
s/SOL_IP/IPPROTO_IP/ (POSIX standard name)
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.09 ====================
Released: 2005-10-13
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Justin Pryzby <pryzbyj@justinpryzby.com>
Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Tomas Pospisek <tpo_deb@sourcepole.ch>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
ptsname.3
getpt.3
unlockpt.3
openpty.3
posix_openpt.3
grantpt.3
pts.4
tty_ioctl.4
mtk
Added SEE ALSO for new pty.7 page.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
pty.7
mtk
Overview of Unix 98 and BSD pseudo-terminals.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
ldd.1
mtk
Remove "-V" option (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
fcntl.2
Peter Chubb / Trond Myklebust / mtk
Since kernel 2.6.10, a read lease can only be placed on a
file descriptor that is opened read-only.
See the following LKML thread of Aug 2005
("fcntl(F GETLEASE) semantics??"):
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112371777712197&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112374818213000&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112376335305284&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112377294030092&w=2
mprotect.2
mtk
Add new text to ENOMEM error.
mremap.2
mtk
Added description of MREMAP_FIXED and 'new_address' argument
under NOTES.
Revised text of EINVAL error.
read.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
read() can fail with EINVAL when using O_DIRECT
mtk
Added open(2) to SEE ALSO.
shmget.2
mtk
s/int/size_t/ for type of 'size' argument (fix from
Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
write.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
write() can fail with EINVAL when using O_DIRECT
atanh.3
mtk
Fix: s/acosh/atanh/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
fopen.3
mtk
Improved "a+" description (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
getrpcent.3
mtk
s/getrpcent/setrpcent/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
stdio.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
Removed references to fropen() and fwopen(), which are
BSDisms that don't appear in glibc.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=331174
strftime.3
mtk
Typo fix: %Ry ==> %Ey [SUSv3 mentions...] (fix from
Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
nsswitch.conf.5
mtk
s/network/networks/ (fix from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
proc.5
mtk
Added description of /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout.
socket.7
mtk
Update description of SO_RCVLOWAT and SO_SNDLOWAT.
(fix derived from Fedora man-pages-2.07-7).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.10 ====================
Released: 2005-10-19
Global changes
--------------
The changes in this release consist *solely* of formatting fixes, with
the aim bringing greater consistency to the manual pages according to
the following rules:
-- Function name references should *always* be followed by
parentheses, "()" (possibly containing a manual page section
number).
-- The parentheses following a function name should *not* be
formatted. Thus, for example, instead of:
.B name()
one should write:
.BR name ()
Much of the change was automated using two scripts:
add_parens_for_own_funcs.sh and unformat_parens.sh.
For the (possible) benefit of downstream manual page maintainers and
translators, I have placed these scripts in a new subdirectory 'scripts'.
NOTE THE FOLLOWING POINTS WELL:
-- These scripts provide a computer-assisted solution to the above
two goals. However, they are not perfect, and their output should
be scanned by a human. (To see what changes the two scripts
*would* make, without making them, use the "-n" command line option.)
-- The scripts do not fix all instances that violate the above rules:
some manual fixes are required. Two further scripts are provided
to help find remaining instances of function names without
following "()": find_dots_no_parens.sh and find_slashes_no_parens.sh.
The following changes were made:
-- add_parens_for_own_funcs.sh was applied to the pages in Sections
2 and 3.
-- unformat_parens.sh was applied to pages in Sections 2, 3, 4, and 7
(the only sections where such changes were required).
-- further changes (not so very many) were performed by hand.
(found places to fix with the assistance of find_dots_no_parens.sh
and find_slashes_no_parens.sh).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.11 ====================
Released: 2005-10-24
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain PORTAL <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
Most instances of the constant "NULL" are not formatted (bolded) in
man pages, but a few are. For consistency, formatting on "NULL" has
been removed where it occurred.
Many minor formatting fixes were made.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
getrlimit.2
mtk
Added EINVAL error for rlim_cur > rlim_max when calling setrlimit().
path_resolution.2
mtk
Repaired discussion of capabilities and file system UID, which
mistakenly had involved exec() in the discussion.
prctl.2
mtk
Removed text saying there is no library interface. There
is nowadays.
mkfifo.3
mtk
Minor change to RETURN VALUE text.
sk98lin.4
Alain Portal
Formatting fixes.
capabilities.7
mtk
Minor changes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.12 ====================
Released: 2005-10-31
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@dd.iij4u.or.jp>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
herbert <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Martin Landers <martin.landers@treibgut.net>
Michael Benedict <benedict@starbak.net>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
mlock.2
mtk
Reworded text around PAGESIZE, noting also that
sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) can be used.
path_resolution.2
mtk / aeb
Removed words "as well" (added in 2.11) from the phrase
"and it gets these last five capabilities if its fsuid is 0 as well"
since there are (unusual) situations in which fsuid can be 0 while
the effective UID is not.
Reworked (cut down) discussion of capabilities, moving part of
it into capabilities.7
setresuid.2
mtk
Add text to note that setresuid() always modifies the file
system UID, and setresgid() likewise always modifies the file
system GID.
shmget.2
mtk
Added (brief) description of SHM_HUGETLB.
sigaltstack.2
mtk / Martin Landers
Noted that ss_sp is automatically aligned by the kernel.
byteorder.3
Brian M. Carlson / herbert
Change <netinet/in.h> to <arpa/inet.h> in prototype; add text
explaining that some systems need the former header.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265244
capabilities.7
mtk
Reworked part of the discussion of exec() and capabilities.
Added sub-section "Effect of User ID Changes on Capabilities".
Reworked discussion of CAP_SYS_ADMIN and file-max.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.13 ====================
Released: 2005-11-03
This release consists entirely of formatting and typographical fixes.
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Various pages
mtk
Function and page cross references that were italicized were
made bold (which is how the majority of function and page
cross references were already done).
Various pages
mtk
Instances of things like "NULL-terminated string" were changed to
"null-terminated string".
Various pages
mtk
Pathnames, structures, arguments, and <header-files> that were
bold were changed to italics.
Various pages
mtk
Instances of the constant "NULL" that were bold-faced were made
unformatted (which is how most instances of "NULL" were already
formatted.)
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.14 ====================
Released: 2005-11-17
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Angelo <ang3l0@katamail.com>
Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@nit.ca>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de>
Volker Reichelt <reichelt@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
rexec.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
This page is taken as is from the FreeBSD 5.4 distribution.
(Not checked against Linux reality, but likely things are
the same.)
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336875
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
arch_prctl.2
mtk
Updated discussion about lack of prototype in glibc.
execve.2
mtk
Improved description of E2BIG error: it relates to the sum
of the bytes in both environment and argument list.
fcntl.2
mtk
Clarified parts of the discussion of file leases,
noting effect of open(O_NONBLOCK), interruption
by signal handler, or termination by signal in
lease breaker. In response to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339037
stat.2
mtk / Stefan Brüns
Added LINUX NOTES describing nanosecond timestamps.
frexp.3
Volker Reichelt / mtk
Fixed to point out that that frexp() returns a number whose
*absolute* value is >= 0.5 and < 1. Amended the example
program to demonstrate this.
open.2
mtk / Avery Pennarun
Add EWOULDBLOCK error for file leases.
In response to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339037
putenv.3
mtk
Although the glibc implementation returns -1 on error (and some
other man pages (e.g., the BSDs) also document that value for
error returns), SUSv3 merely says "non-zero" (and this is
what manual pages on many implementations also say).
posix_memalign.3
mtk
Formerly, the page said that all systems declare memalign() in
<malloc.h>. In fact, many declare it in <stdlib.h>.
strtok.3
mtk
Almost a complete rewrite after Angelo pointed out
that the existing page was deficient.
sd.4
Martin Schulze
Remove SEE ALSO for nonexistent scsi.4.
proc.5
mtk
Updated discussion of /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max.
signal.7
mtk
Added pthreads.7 to SEE ALSO.
ld.so.8
mtk
Fix typo: s/LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT/LD_PROFILE_OUTPUT/
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.15 ====================
Released: 2005-11-30
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>
Malcolm Scott <mas90@io.malc.org.uk>
Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
sigvec.3 -- for details, see below.
sigset.3 -- for details, see below.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
kill.2
mtk
Added text describing the 2.6.[0-7] EPERM bug that occurred
when sending signals to a process group.
sigaction.2
mtk
Noted that si_signo is unused on Linux.
sigpending.2
mtk
Added BUGS noting wrapper function problem that existed
in glibc versions <= 2.2.1.
sigpause.2
mtk
Moved to section 3; see also sigpause.3 below.
sigsetops.3
mtk
Added a GLIBC NOTES section describing sigisemptyset(),
sigandset(), and sigorset().
sigvec.2
sigblock.2
mtk
These pages have been deleted, and replaced by a new sigvec.3
man page that more fully describes the BSD signal API.
siggetmask.2
sigmask.2
sigsetmask.2
mtk
These links to the now-deleted sigblock.2 have been also been
deleted. They are replaced by corresponding links in Section 3:
sigmask.3, sigsetmask.3, siggetmask.3.
sigvec.3
mtk
This new page is provides a fuller description of the
BSD signal API than was provided in the now-deleted sigvec.2
and sigblock.2.
sigblock.3
siggetmask.3
sigmask.3
sigsetmask.3
mtk
Created as links to sigvec.3.
sigpause.3
mtk
Moved here from Section 2.
Some minor wording fixes; clarified System V origins of
X/Open flavor of this function.
sigset.3
mtk
New page describing the System V signal API: sigset(), sighold(),
sigrelse(), sigignore().
strftime.3
James Vega
Add further text clarifying that %+ specifier is not supported in
glibc2.
mtk
Added GLIBC NOTES section describing optional 'flag' and 'width'
components of conversion specifiers.
Some wording changes to bring terminology closer to SUSv3.
Added an example program.
vm86old.2
mtk / aeb
Add as new link to vm86.2.
intro.7
mtk
Added a few words to reflect the fact that several of the section
7 pages provide overviews of various topics.
signal.7
mtk
Added some SEE ALSO entries.
socket.7
Senthil Kumar / mtk
Added text noting that select()/poll() do not respect SO_RCVLOWAT.
udp.7
Malcolm Scott
s/tcp_socket/udp_socket/ in example
Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=340927
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.16 ====================
Released: 2005-12-02
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
HOWTOHELP
Urs Thuermann
Added instructions for finding maintainer in Debian package.
poll.2
mtk
Added NOTES about INFTIM constant provided on some other
implementations.
shmop.2
Alan Stern
The -1 error return of shmat() should be cast "(void *)".
strftime.3
aeb
Remove junk text (actually intended as source code comment
in page).
ip.7
Urs Thuermann
Fix a typo: s/SOCK_RAW/SOCK_PACKET/
packet.7
Urs Thuermann
Clarification: s%SOCK_PACKET%PF_INET/SOCK_PACKET%
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.17 ====================
Released: 2005-12-13
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
fmemopen.3
Walter Harms / mtk
New documentation for the glibc-specific fmemopen() and
open_memstream(). Based on glibc info page.
pipe.7
mtk (with prompting and suggestions for improvements by
Michael Haardt)
New page providing overview of pipes and FIFOs.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
HOWTOHELP
mtk
Added notes on how to write example programs for manual pages.
fork.2
mtk
Added pointers to examples of fork() in wait.2 and pipe.2.
pipe.2
mtk
Added an example program.
Added SEE ALSO for new pipe.7 page.
wait.2
mtk
Added example program demonstrating use of fork() and waitpid().
carg.3
Justin Pryzby
Delete line that should have been deleted when applying
2.08 fix for this page.
getaddrinfo.3
mtk
Rearranged EAI_* list alphabetically.
inet.3
mtk
Added GLIBC NOTES describing feature test macros required
to expose declaration of inet_aton().
open_memstream.3
mtk
New link to new fmemopen.3.
fifo.4
mtk
Added SEE ALSO for new pipe.7 page.
environ.5
mtk
Removed BROWSER, since it seems not in fact to be common.
socket.7
Urs Thuermann
Added documentation of SO_TIMESTAMP.
tcp.7
mtk
Noted 200 millisecond ceiling imposed on TCP_CORK.
udp.7
mtk
Rearranged options into something approximating alphabetical order.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.18 ====================
Released: 2005-12-15
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sf.net>
Karsten Sperling <karsten.sperling@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bind.2
mtk
Added mention of AF_INET6 address family.
Added discussion of sockaddr structure and an example in the
Unix domain.
recv.2
mtk
Put 'flags' list in alphabetical order.
send.2
mtk
Added cross-reference from discussion of MSG_MORE to UDP_CORK
in udp(7).
Put 'flags' list in alphabetical order.
err.3
mtk
Added CONFORMING TO section noting that these are
non-standard BSDisms.
errno.3
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO for err.3.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306867
gethostbyname.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze / mtk
Added references to nsswitch.conf(5); remove cross references
to resolv+(8).
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308397
perror.3
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO for err.3 .
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306867
resolver.3
mtk / Martin (Joey) Schulze
Remove cross references to resolv+(8); add cross references to
resolv.conf(5).
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=214892
Added SEE ALSO entry for resolver(5);
see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=251122
strerror.3
mtk / Stefan Puiu
Rewrote and extended the discussion of the two flavors of
strerror_r(), and added some additional information on
strerror().
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO for err.3, as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=306867
elf.5
Mike Frysinger
Fix three typos in identifier names.
operator.7
Karsten Sperling
The + operator should be in the list of unary operators.
raw.7
mtk
Small wording changes around discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
Fixed a couple of wording errors elsewhere.
Reformatted some long lines.
socket.7
mtk, after a note by Stefan Puiu
Updated discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
Reformatted some long lines.
Noted the Linux-specific feature whereby setsockopt() doubles
the value given for SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF.
Noted kernel-imposed minimum values for SO_SNDBUF and SO_RCVBUF.
udp.7
mtk, after a note by Stefan Puiu
Updated discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT.
unix.7
mtk
Added new (UN)SUPPORTED FEATURES section in which it is noted
that Unix domain sockets do not support MSG_OOB or MSG_MORE.
Noted details of SO_SNBUF and SO_RCVBUF support for
Unix domain sockets.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.19 ====================
Released: 2005-12-23
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
HOWTOHELP
mtk
Minor changes.
bind.2
Stefan Puiu / mtk
Remove text under EINVAL error: "This may change in the future:
see linux/unix/sock.c for details." This behavior has been
unchanged for a long time, and seems unlikely to change.
Add EADDRINUSE to errors.
send.2
aeb
Add cmsg(3) to SEE ALSO.
fopen.3
Walter Harms / mtk
Added description of 'x' mode character (exclusive open).
pipe.7
mtk / aeb
Some wording changes to description of pipes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.20 ====================
Released: 2006-01-03
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
sigaltstack.2
mtk
Added some text to explain the usual scenario in which
sigaltstack() is employed.
getloadavg.3
mtk
Noted that this function is available since glibc 2.2.
strcpy.3
mtk
s/nulls/null bytes/
capabilities.7
mtk
Noted that capability bounding set appeared with kernel 2.2.11.
arp.7
icmp.7
ip.7
ipv6.7
netdevice.7
packet.7
raw.7
rtnetlink.7
socket.7
tcp.7
unix.7
udp.7
mtk
The only changes to these pages have been for formatting:
-- Structure definitions were changed to K&R style
-- Some long source lines were broken to fit into ~70
character lines.
No changes were made to the content of these pages (yet...).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.21 ====================
Released: 2006-01-16
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
dd.1 cp.1
truncate.2 gethostname.2 lseek.2 listxattr.2 readlink.2
sysfs.2 stat.2 ustat.2 uname.2 getdomainname.2
argz_add.3 asprintf.3 confstr.3 bstring.3 bzero.3 dlopen.3 fwide.3
gethostbyname.3 getline.3 getlogin.3 getnameinfo.3 getpass.3 hsearch.3
perror.3 printf.3 readdir.3 scanf.3 stpcpy.3 strdup.3 strfmon.3
strftime.3 string.3 strptime.3 sysconf.3 termios.3 ttyname.3
dsp56k.4 tty_ioctl.4
elf.5 proc.5 termcap.5
charsets.7 unix.7
mtk
Various pages use inconsistent terms for 'null byte' (which
is the C99/SUSv3 term for the '\0' character).
To rectify this the following changes were made in the above
pages:
Replace 'zero byte' with 'null byte'.
Replace 'null character' with 'null byte'.
Replace 'nulls' with 'null bytes'.
Replace 'NUL-terminated' by 'null-terminated'.
Replace 'NUL' by 'null byte'.
Replace 'terminating NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
Replace 'final NUL' by 'terminating null byte'.
Replace 'NUL character' by 'null byte'.
Various pages
mtk
Replace "SysV"/"SYSV" by "System V".
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
capget.2
mtk
Noted bug that could wrongly cause EPERM in unprivileged
capset() with 'pid' field == getpid().
epoll_ctl.2
mtk
Noted that EPOLLONESHOT was added in 2.6.2.
gethostname.2
mtk
Added GLIBC NOTES describing operation of glibc's
gethostname() wrapper function.
mmap.2
mtk / Mike Frysinger
Clarify relationship between mmap2(2) and mmap64(3).
mtk
A few other small rewordings.
mmap64.3
Mike Frysinger
New link to mmap.2.
open.2
mtk
Added BUG noting that O_ASYNC can't be enabled via
open(): fcntl() must be used for this purpose.
recv.2
Stefan Puiu
Relocate misplaced discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT.
dlopen.3
mtk
Rewrote discussion of dlopen() 'flag' argument;
added descriptions of RTLD_NOLOAD, RTLD_DELETE,
and RTLD_DEEPBIND.
Noted use of atexit() to register a function that is
automatically called when a library is unloaded.
fmemopen.3
mtk
Rewrote substantial parts of the page, and relicensed under GPL.
fseeko.3
Mike Frysinger
Add RETURN VALUE section.
getopt.3
mtk
Noted historical use of <stdio.h> to declare getopt().
qsort.3
mtk / Falk Hueffner
Clarify how strcmp() should be used as the 'compar'
function by providing an example.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348072
proc.5
mtk
Noted that /proc/mounts is pollable since kernel 2.6.15.
Documented /proc/PID/task.
Noted that the contents of /proc/PID/{cwd,exe,fd,root,task}
are not available if the main thread has terminated.
Senthil Kumar
Add pointer to random(4) for description of files under
/proc/sys/kernel/random.
udp.7
Stefan Puiu / mtk
Small rewording of discussion of SO_BSDCOMPAT
(add cross-ref to socket(7)).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.22 ====================
Released: 2006-02-02
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Colin Tuckley <colin@tuckley.org>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
mmap.2
aeb / mtk
Noted that portable applications should specify fd as -1
when using MAP_ANONYMOUS.
Some rewriting of description of MAP_ANONYMOUS.
rt_sigreturn.2
Thorsten Kukuk
New link to sigreturn.2.
rt_sigsuspend.2
mtk
New link to sigsuspend.2.
waitid.2
mtk
Noted that waitid() does not set infop->si_uid field on
most other implementations.
getopt.3
Walter harms / mtk
Make clear that when calling getopt_long() and there are no
short options, then 'optstring' should be "", not NULL.
openpty.3
Thomas Hood / mtk
In glibc 2.0.92, openpty() was modified to preferably open
Unix 98 ptys instead of BSD ptys.
qsort.3
mtk
Small rewording under EXAMPLES.
strtol.3
strtoul.3
Stefan Puiu
s/string must begin/string may begin/
proc.5
mtk
Documented inotify files under /proc/sys/fs/inotify:
max_queued_events, max_user_instances, and max_user_watches.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.23 ====================
Released: 2006-02-10
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Luc Van Oostenryck <lkml@looxix.net>
Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
inotify_init.2
inotify_add_watch.2
inotify_rm_watch.2
Robert Love, with some additions by mtk.
New pages describing the inotify API.
mbind.2
get_mempolicy.2
set_mempolicy.2
Andi Kleen, with additional work by mtk
New pages describing the NUMA memory allocation policy API.
Drawn from the set at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/ak/numa.
rtc.4
Urs Thuermann, with additional work by mtk
New page describing the real-time clock driver.
inotify.7
mtk
Overview of the inotify API.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
Andi Kleen
On x86, clone() should not be called through vsyscall,
but directly through "int $0x80".
fcntl.2
mtk
Small wording changes.
Added cross-ref to inotify.7 under the description of dnotify.
kill.2
mtk / Britton Leo Kerin
Small wording change under NOTES to clarify
what happens when a process sends a signal to itself.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350236
mlock.2
mtk / Matthias Andree
Added BUGS txt on interaction between MCL_FUTURE and
RLIMIT_MEMLOCK.
See the following LKML thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113801392825023&w=2
"Rationale for RLIMIT_MEMLOCK"
msgop.2
mtk / Samuel Thibault
Rewrote declaration of 'msgp' to be "void *" in response
to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350884
Various other wording fixes.
open.2
mtk
Clarify distinction between "file creation flags" and
"file status flags".
read.2
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO for pread(2).
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351873
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Major rewrite.
select.2
mtk
Added return types to prototypes for FD_SET(), FD_CLR(),
FD_ZERO, and FD_ISSET().
Other minor wording changes.
read.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO for pwrite(2).
(Analogous with read.2 change above.)
errno.3
Kurt Wall / mtk
Add Linux specific errors to this page.
localeconv.3
mtk
Added cross-ref to locale.7 for 'struct lconv' defn.
Other minor wording changes.
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351831
scanf.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
Minor formatting & wording fixes.
setlocale.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Added SEE ALSO refs for nl_langinfo.3
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351831
proc.5
mtk
Migrated description of inotify files to the new inotify.7 page.
ascii.7
Dan Jacobson / mtk
Add text describing characters 001 to 037.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342173
locale.7
mtk
Minor wording and formatting changes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.24 ====================
Released: 2006-02-17
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Joerg Habenicht <habenich@planetserver.com>
Luc Van Oostenryck <lkml@looxix.net>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
get_kernel_syms.2
create_module.2
delete_module.2
init_module.2
query_module.2
FSF / mtk (with assistance of Luc Van Oostenryck)
man-pages finally gets pages for these system calls, several
of which are obsolete in Linux 2.6.
Took the old GPLed pages dated 1996 and made a number of
clean-ups and minor additions.
Global changes
--------------
various pages
mtk
Change "file name" to "filename"
Change "path name" to "pathname"
stpncpy.3
strstr.3
strcmp.3
toupper.3
strlen.3
stpcpy.3
puts.3
strdup.3
strtok.3
isalpha.3
strspn.3
gets.3
strpbrk.3
mtk after a suggestion from Samuel Thibault
Added SEE ALSO pointers to wide character equivalent functions
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351996
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
mtk
Remove duplicate CLONE_STOPPED text.
Commented out crufty text describing EINVAL error
for the now obsolete CLONE_DETACHED flag.
Under CLONE_SIGHAND, noted that 'flags' must also include
CLONE_VM if CLONE_SIGHAND is specified.
fcntl.2
mtk
Under ERRORS: Separate out EAGAIN error for locking mmaped files.
inotify_add_watch.2
mtk
Minor wording fix.
msgop.2
mtk
Documented the EAGAIN error for msgrcv().
fnmatch.3
Mike Frysinger / mtk
Expand explanation of FNM_PATHNAME.
lockf.3
Joerg Habenicht / mtk
Fix up discussion of EAGAIN/EACCESS errors.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.25 ====================
Released: 2006-03-02
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
James Peach <jpeach@samba.org>
Krzysztof Benedyczak <golbi@mat.uni.torun.pl>
Marten von Gagern <Martin.vGagern@gmx.net>
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Michael Wronksi <michal.wronski@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
mq_close.3
mq_getattr.3
mq_notify.3
mq_open.3
mq_receive.3
mq_send.3
mq_unlink.3
mtk
New pages describing POSIX message queue API.
posix_fallocate.3
mtk, after a suggestion by James Peach
New page describing posix_fallocate().
mq_overview.7
mtk
New page giving overview of the POSIX message queue API.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
lseek.2
Michael Haardt
Add a case to the EINVAL error text.
mtk
Various minor wording fixes
Added SEE ALSO referring to new posix_fallocate.3.
posix_fadvise.2
mtk
Added "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600" to prototype.
Added SEE ALSO referring to new posix_fallocate.3.
proc.5
mtk
Migrated information on POSIX message queues to new mqueue.7 page.
inotify.7
Marten von Gagern
Fix thinko: s/assuming a non-blocking/assuming a blocking/
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.26 ====================
Released: 2006-03-21
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
Siward de Groot <siward@wanadoo.nl>
Steve Beattie <sbeattie@suse.de>
Walter Harms <walter.harms@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
clone.2
getdents.2
gettid.2
llseek.2
mmap2.2
modify_ldt.2
pivot_root.2
quotactl.2
readdir.2
sysctl.2
syslog.2
tkill.2
mtk, aeb, Steve Beattie
Added comment in SYNOPSIS to note that syscall(2) may be
preferable over _syscallN (see intro(2)).
Various minor formatting changes were done on a range of
pages in Section 7. (No content was changed.)
New pages
---------
openat.2
mtk
New page describing openat(2), added in kernel 2.6.16,
and some notes on rationale for the at*(2) system calls.
mbind.2
Andi Kleen, Christoph Lameter, mtk
Added MPOL_MF_MOVE and MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL descriptions,
from numactl-0.9.2 man page.
Plus a few other smaller fixes.
fexecve.3
mtk
New page describing fexecve(3).
futimes.3
mtk
New page describing futimes(3).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
execve.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3.
intro.2
mtk, aeb, Steve Beattie
Added some notes on syscall(2) versus _syscall.
msgctl.2
msgget.2
msgop.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to mq_overview.7.
open.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to new openat.2.
Split out part of the RETURN VALUE text into separate
NOTES section.
Modified wording referring to raw(8) to
indicate that this interface is deprecated.
poll.2
mtk
Added discussion of ppoll(2), which is new in 2.6.16.
ppoll.2
mtk
New link to poll.2.
recvmsg.2
sendmsg.2
mtk / Paul Brook
Added text to note that although POSIX says msg_controllen
should be socklen_t, glibc actually uses size_t.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=356502
and the associated glibc bug report.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2448
mtk
Various formatting fixes.
select.2
mtk
Updated to reflect the fact that pselect() has been implemented
in the kernel in 2.6.16; various other minor wording changes.
pselect() prototype needs "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600".
tempnam.3
Justin Pryzby
Clean up description of EEXIST error.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357893
unlink.2
mtk
Added a little extra text to clarify EISDIR vs EPERM.
utime.2
mtk
Added new SEE ALSO entry pointing to new futimes.3 page.
exec.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to new fexecve.3.
shm_unlink.3
mtk
New link to shm_open.3 (should have been made when page
was originally written).
swab.3
Walter Harms
Add needed "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE".
undocumented.3
mtk
Updated to remove a few function names that are now documented.
capabilities.7
mtk
Various changes to bring this page closer to
current kernel versions.
inotify.7
mtk
Noted that glibc 2.4 is required to get glibc support
for inotify.
mq_overview.7
mtk
Some rewording and added a few words about System V
message queues.
netlink.7
Hasso Tepper
Substantial updates to various parts of this page.
mtk, Alain Portal
Minor fixes
pthreads.7
mtk
Updated to reflect that the NPTL limitation that only the main
thread could call setsid() and setpgid() was removed in 2.6.16.
raw.7
Hasso Tepper
Removed text implying that only in kernel 2.2 does IP_HDRINCL
prevent datagrams from being fragmented.
socket.7
mtk
Documented SO_SNDBUFFORCE and SO_RCVBUFFORCE socket options,
new in 2.6.14.
Placed socket options in alphabetical order.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.27 ====================
Released: 2006-03-24
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Charles P. Wright <cwright@cs.sunysb.edu>
Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elet.hu>
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com>
Paolo (Blaisorblade) Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
man7/*
mtk
Various minor formatting changes were done on a range of
pages in Section 7. (No content was changed.)
New pages
---------
unshare.2
mtk, with reference to documentation by Janak Desai
New page describing unshare(2), added in kernel 2.6.16.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
fork.2
vfork.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO pointing to new unshare.2.
mbind.2
Christoph Lameter
MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL requires CAP_SYS_NICE not CAP_SYS_RESOURCE.
mremap.2
mtk
Clarified the description of MREMAP_FIXED and restructured
the text to reflect the fact that this flag is exposed
by glibc since version 2.4.
ptrace.2
Chuck Ebbert, with assistance from Daniel Jacobowitz,
Paolo (Blaisorblade) Giarrusso, and Charles P. Wright;
after a suggestion from Heiko Carstens.
Document the following ptrace requests:
PTRACE_SETOPTIONS (2.4.6)
plus associated flags:
PTRACE_O_TRACESYSGOOD (2.4.6)
PTRACE_O_TRACEFORK (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORK (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACECLONE (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC (2.5.46)
PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE (2.5.60)
PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT (2.5.60)
PTRACE_SETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
PTRACE_GETSIGINFO (2.3.99-pre6)
PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG (2.5.46)
PTRACE_SYSEMU (since Linux 2.6.14)
PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP (since Linux 2.6.14)
sched_get_priority_max.2
sched_setscheduler.2
sched_setparam.2
mtk, Ingo Molnar
Modified to document SCHED_BATCH policy, new in kernel 2.6.16.
Text describing SCHED_BATCH was added to sched_setscheduler.2,
and was drawn in part from Ingo Molnar's description in the
mail message containing the patch that implemented this policy.
Various other minor rewordings and formatting fixes.
proc.5
mtk, using text from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
Document /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches, new in kernel 2.6.16.
mtk, using information from ChangeLog-2.6.14.
Document /proc/PID/smaps, new in kernel 2.6.14.
capabilities.7
mtk
Noted affect of CAP_SYS_NICE for mbind(MPOL_MF_MOVE_ALL).
pthreads.7
mtk
Kernel 2.6.16 eliminated buggy behavior with respect to
the alternate signal stack.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.28 ====================
Released: 2006-03-31
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Aleksandr Blokhin <sass@altlinux.ru>
Greg Johnson <gjohnson@lanl.gov>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
sem_post.3
sem_getvalue.3
sem_close.3
sem_open.3
sem_destroy.3
sem_wait.3
sem_unlink.3
sem_init.3
sem_overview.7
mtk
New pages describing the POSIX semaphores API.
These pages supersede and provide a superset of the information
in the glibc (3thr) "semaphores(3)" manual page.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
ppoll.2
Aleksandr Blokhin
Fix broken link.
ptrace.2
mtk
Wrapped long lines (no content changes).
semctl.2
semget.2
semop.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO pointing to the new sem_overview.7 page.
elf.5
Greg Johnson
Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent core(5).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.29 ====================
Released: 2006-04-06
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Roberto Jimenoca <robertojimenoca@terra.es>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
getrlimit.2
prctl.2
sigaction.2
elf.5
signal.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new core.5 page.
New pages
---------
mkdirat.2
mtk
New page describing mkdirat(2), new in 2.6.16.
mknodat.2
mtk
New page describing mknodat(2), new in 2.6.16.
core.5
mtk
New page describing core dump files.
mkfifoat.3
mtk
New page describing mkfifoat(3).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
accept.2
getpeername.2
getsockname.2
Michael Haardt / mtk
Document EINVAL error for 'len' argument < 0.
fcntl.2
mtk
Expanded discussion of mandatory locking.
getrlimit.2
mtk
Added BUGS text on 2.6.x handling of RLIMIT_CPU limit
of zero seconds. See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112256338703880&w=2
mkdir.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new mkdirat.2.
mknod.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new mknodat.2.
open.2
mtk / Roberto Jimenoca
Clarified discussion of file types affected by O_NONBLOCK.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=360243
openat.2
mtk
Rewrote NOTES describing rationale for openat().
Various other minor changes.
recv.2
Stefan Puiu
Removed a misleading cross-ref to socket.2.
shmop.2
mtk
Since 2.6.17-rc1, shmdt() gives the error EINVAL in a further
circumstance: if shmaddr is not aligned on a page boundary.
unshare.2
mtk
Remove text saying that specifying invalid flags "is likely
to cause compatibility problems" since the kernel now
(2.6.17-rc1) contains an explicit check for invalid bits
with a consequent EINVAL error.
mkfifo.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to new mkfifoat.3.
proc.5
mtk
Information on core_pattern and core_uses_pid has
been migrated to the new core.5 page.
ip.7
Stefan Puiu
Removed paragraph referring to obsolete ipchains / ipfw(4).
sem_overview.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO entry referring to pthreads.7.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.30 ====================
Released: 2006-04-17
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andre Lehovich <andrel@yahoo.com>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
linkat.2
mtk
New page describing linkat(), new in kernel 2.6.16
renameat.2
mtk
New page describing renameat(), new in kernel 2.6.16
symlinkat.2
mtk
New page describing symlinkat(), new in kernel 2.6.16
unlinkat.2
mtk
New page describing unlinkat(), new in kernel 2.6.16
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
link.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new linkat.2 page.
openat.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entries pointing to new *at.2 pages.
rename.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new renameat.2 page.
rmdir.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new unlinkat.2 page.
symlink.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new symlinkat.2 page.
unlink.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to new unlinkat.2 page.
termios.3
mtk / Karel Kulhavy
Document the feature test macros required to expose various flags.
Karel Kulhavy
Clarify 'speed' argument for cfsetispeed() text.
Karel Kulhavy / mtk
Note that LOBLK is not implemented on Linux.
mtk
Clarify arguments for cfsetspeed().
Various formatting changes.
full.4
Andre Lehovich
Add a sentence describing the purpose of full(4).
core.5
aeb / mtk
Rework text describing circumstances in which
core dump files are not produced.
mtk / Stefan Puiu
A core dump of a multithreaded process always includes the
PID in the core filename.
mtk / Stefan Puiu
Eliminate some accidentally duplicated text.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.31 ====================
Released: 2006-05-02
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
Mark Glines <mark@glines.org>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Page renamings
--------------
The following pages have been relocated into section 7, since
that is their more natural home. SEE ALSO references in various
other pages have been adjusted.
epoll.4
fifo.4
futex.4
complex.5
environ.5
(many pages outside man-pages actually *expect*
'environ' to be in Section 7.)
ipc.5
renamed to svipc.7
".so" link files have been created to link the old file locations to the
new file locations. These links are added just to ensure that cross
references from any other (non-man-pages) pages will remain valid;
eventually these links will be removed.
New pages
---------
fstatat.2
mtk
New page for fstatat(2), new in 2.6.16.
adjtime.3
mtk
New page for adjtime(3).
error.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
New page describing error() and error_at_line()
Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=186307
program_invocation_name.3
mtk
New page describing program_invocation_name and
program_invocation_short_name variables.
sockatmark.3
mtk
New page for sockatmark(3).
ftm.7
mtk
New page describing feature test macros.
time.7
mtk
New page giving an overview of "time" on Linux systems.
Global changes
--------------
getgroups.2
wait4.2
chown.2
chdir.2
gettimeofday.2
initgroups.3
dirfd.3
mtk
Simplified wording around requirement for _BSD_SOURCE
feature test macro.
times.2
time.2
gettimeofday.2
getitimer.2
nanosleep.2
ctime.3
rtc.4
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to new time.7.
err.3
errno.3
perror.3
strerror.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to new error.3.
getdate.3
printf.3
scanf.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to setlocale.3.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
accept.2
Mark Glines
Remove mention of SOCK_RDM from this page, since this socket
type does not support accept()ing connections.
adjtimex.2
mtk
Modified text referring to adjtime(); added SEE ALSO for new
adjtime.3 page.
fsync.2
mtk, after a note by Karel Kulhavy
Rewrote most of the DESCRIPTION, as well as some other parts
the page, to clarify use and operation of, and rationale for,
fsync(2) and fdatasync(2).
getitimer.2
mtk
Updated discussion of maximum timer value to reflect the fact
that the default jiffy is now 4 milliseconds.
Added text to note that current incorrect behavior of
normalizing tv_usec >= 1000000 will be repaired in a future
kernel; applications should be fixed now.
gettimeofday.2
Karel Kulhavy
Point out more explicitly that 'tz' argument should
normally be NULL.
mtk
Various other minor edits and formatting fixes.
mount.2
mtk
Since kernel 2.6.16, MS_NOATIME and MS_NODIRATIME are settable
on a per-mount basis.
Detail exactly which mount flags can be changed on MS_REMOUNT.
nanosleep.2
mtk / Karel Kulhavy
Clarify RETURN VALUE discussion.
openat.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new fstatat.2.
program_invocation_short_name.3
mtk
New link to new program_invocation_name.3.
recv.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO for new sockatmark.3.
rmdir.2
Joshua Kwan / Martin (Joey) Schulze / mtk
Correct wording of EBUSY case.
mtk
Add ".." case to ENOTEMPTY error
select.2
Karel Kulhavy
Note more clearly that fd_set arguments can be NULL.
mtk / Karel Kulhavy
Improve opening paragraph describing purpose of select().
mtk
Various other minor edits and formatting fixes.
semget.2
mtk / Nishanth Aravamudan
Add text to noting that the initial values of semaphores
in a new set are indeterminate.
shmget.2
mtk
Add text noting that contents of newly created segment are zero
values.
sigwaitinfo.2
mtk
Noted that all threads should block signal being waited for.
stat.2
Nishanth Aravamudan / mtk
Added NOTE that st_size is always returned as zero for most
/proc files.
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new fstatat.2.
syscall.2
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Remove bogus BUGS text.
utime.2
mtk
Various minor changes.
confstr.3
mtk
Rewrote RETURN VALUE discussion.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
Removed BUGS.
ctanh.3
Martin (Joey) Schulze / mtk
Fix errors in DESCRIPTION.
ctime.3
mtk
The range of tm_sec is 0..60 (not 0..61).
error_at_line.3
error_message_count.3
error_on_per_line.3
error_print_progname.3
mtk
New links to new error.3.
fmemopen.3
mtk / Ryan S. Arnold
Add text noting that explicitly controlling output buffering
may be useful to catch errors on output operations on an
fmemopen() stream.
getline.3
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO pointing to getline.3.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=364772
strtod.3
strtoul.3
mtk
Describe correct handling of errno in order to
distinguish error from success after the call.
Added EXAMPLE section which points to strtol.3 which provides
an example of the use of the analogous strtol(3).
strtol.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
Add an example program.
mtk
Describe correct handling or errno in order to
distinguish error from success after the call.
tmpfile.3
Reuben Thomas
DESCRIPTION does not need to say "temporary file name"
just "temporary file", since the name is in any case
unavailable to the user.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=363518
mtk
In DESCRIPTION:
Change /automatically deleted when the program terminates normally/
to /automatically deleted when the program terminates/
since deletion occurs on both normal and abnormal termination.
ip.7
Karel Kulhavy / mtk
Various wording improvements and clarifications.
signal.7
mtk / Ulrich Drepper
Add text noting that a signal's disposition is process-wide,
shared by all threads.
mtk
Add text on changing signal dispositions.
Add text on "signal mask and pending signals".
Other minor edits.
time.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO for new adjtime.3.
ld.so.8
Justin Pryzby
Remove bogus duplicate line.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.32 ====================
Released: 2006-05-13
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Johannes Weiner <root@hnaz.ath.cx>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Karel Kulhavy <clock@twibright.com>
Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
faccessat.2
mtk
New page for faccessat(2), new in 2.6.16.
fchmodat.2
mtk
New page for fchmodat(2), new in 2.6.16.
fchownat.2
mtk
New page for fchownat(2), new in 2.6.16.
futimesat.2
mtk
New page for futimesat(2), new in 2.6.16.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new faccessat.2 page.
capget.2
mtk
Reworded to reflect that capabilities are per-thread.
chmod.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new fchmodat.2 page.
chown.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new fchownat.2 page.
mmap.2
mtk
Updated discussion of MAP_NORESERVE since it is no longer
restricted to MAP_PRIVATE mappings.
Add reference to discussion of /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
in proc.5.
openat.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new faccessat.2, fchmodat.2,
fchownat.2, futimesat.2 pages.
shmget.2
mtk
Document SHM_NORESERVE flag, new in 2.6.15.
truncate.2
Paul Brook / mtk
Expand text noting that ftruncate()/truncate() may fail if
asked to extend a file beyond its current length.
Add EPERM error.
utime.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new futimesat.2 page.
fopen.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Document 'm' (mmap) flag.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365754
mtk
Document 'c' (notcancel) flag.
futimes.3
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference pointing to new futimesat.2 page.
qsort.3
Johannes Weiner
Add missing "const" qualifies to cast in EXAMPLE.
mtk
Slight rewording of comments in EXAMPLE.
termios.3
Karel Kulhavy
Clarify meaning of IXANY.
Clarify relationship of MIN with VMIN and TIME with VTIME.
mtk
Noted that CIBAUD, OFDEL, and DELECHO are not implemented
on Linux.
Added explanatory paragraph for phrases "not in POSIX" and
"XSI".
capabilities.7
mtk
Reworded to reflect that capabilities are per-thread.
Add ioprio_set() to list of operations permitted by
CAP_SYS_NICE.
Add ioprio_set() IOPRIO_CLASS_RT and IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE
scheduling classes to list of operations permitted by
CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
Note effects of CAP_SYS_NICE for migrate_pages().
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.33 ====================
Released: 2006-05-23
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Martin Osvald" <martin.osvald@gmail.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Page renamings
--------------
ftm.7
mtk / Stefan Puiu
renamed to the more suggestive feature_test_macros.7
New pages
---------
mq_getsetattr.2
mtk
New page briefly describing mq_getsetattr(2), the system
call that underlies mq_setattr(3) and mq_getattr(3).
rpmatch.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
New page for rpmatch(3).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
chmod.2
mtk
Remove mention of non-standard S_IREAD, S_IWRITE, S_IEXEC.
POSIX does now document ELOOP.
open.2
mtk
Remove mention of non-standard S_IREAD, S_IWRITE, S_IEXEC.
mmap.2
Justin Pryzby
Add mincore(2) to SEE ALSO.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367401
msync.2
Justin Pryzby
Note that EINVAL can also be caused by
flags == MS_SYNC | MS_ASYNC.
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Add CPU_ISSET, CPU_CLR, CPU_SET, CPU_ZERO to NAME section.
select.2
mtk
Various minor changes.
select_tut.2
mtk
Removed much material that is redundant with select.2.
Various other changes.
umask.2
mtk
Substantial rewrite of description of 'mask'.
CPU_ISSET.3
CPU_CLR.3
CPU_SET.3
CPU_ZERO.3
mtk
New links to sched_setaffinity.2
FD_CLR.3
FD_ISSET.3
FD_SET.3
FD_ZERO.3
mtk
New links to select.2.
fts.3
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE also referring to ftw.3.
ftw.3
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE also referring to fts.3.
getline.3
Justin Pryzby
Various minor clarifications.
mkstemp.3
mtk
Clarify that O_EXCL is an open(2) flag.
mq_open.3
Martin Osvald
Fix prototype declaration for 'attr'.
mq_notify.3
Martin Osvald
s/sigev_signal/sigev_signo/
mq_setattr.3
mtk
New link to mq_getattr.3.
mq_timedreceive.3
mtk
New link to mq_receive.3.
mq_timedsend.3
mtk
New link to mq_send.3.
setlocale.3
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO referring to rpmatch.3.
sigandset.3
sigisemptyset.3
sigorset.3
mtk
New links to sigsetops.3.
stdio.3
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO referring to unlocked_stdio.3
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367667
strchr.3
Justin Pryzby
Add description of strchrnul().
strchrnul.3
mtk
New link to strchr.3.
undocumented.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Updated to remove some functions that don't exist, and
therefore don't need to be documented.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367671
unlocked_stdio.3
Justin Pryzby
Added SEE ALSO referring to stdio.3
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367667
mq_overview.7
mtk
Added section describing relationship between library
interfaces and system calls.
Added SEE ALSO referring to new mq_getsetattr.2.
feature_test_macros.7
Stefan Puiu
Fix typo: s/_POSIX_C_SOURCE/_POSIX_SOURCE/
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.34 ====================
Released: 2006-06-20
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@cathedrallabs.org>
bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
Chris Curtis <chris.curtis@riptidesoftware.com>
Eduardo Madeira Fleury <efleury@br.ibm.com>
Joerg Scheurich <rusmufti@helpdesk.bera.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sf.net>
Kenichi Okuyama <okuyama.kenichi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Peter Eiserloh <eiserlohpp@yahoo.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
tzselect.8
zdump.8
zic.8
mtk, Joey
Added header comment noting that these pages are in the public
domain.
bindresvport.3
getrpcent.3
getrpcport.3
rpc.3
xdr.3
rpc.5
mtk, aeb, Joey
Added following to top of these pages to clarify origin and
license:
.\" This page was taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM (BSD license)
New pages
---------
ioprio_set.2
Eduardo Madeira Fleury, with edits by mtk, and review by Jens Axboe
New page for ioprio_get(2) and ioprio_set(2), new in 2.6.13.
offsetof.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
New page describing offsetof() macro.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
_exit.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to exit_group.2.
acct.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to acct.5.
fcntl.2
mtk
Explicitly mention term "dnotify" in discussion of F_NOTIFY.
inotify_add_watch.2
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369960
mtk
Renamed argument from 'path' to 'pathname'.
Reword introductory paragraph to clarify that
inotify_add_watch() may also modify an existing watch item.
mtk
The EINVAL error can also occur if 'fd' is not an inotify
file descriptor.
mtk
Moved BUGS section from this page to inotify.7.
inotify_init.2
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369960
inotify_rm_watch.2
Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho / mtk
s/<inotify.h>/<sys/inotify.h>/ in prototypes.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369960
mtk
The EINVAL error can also occur if 'fd' is not an inotify
file descriptor.
ioprio_get.2
mtk
New link to new ioprio_set.2.
mmap.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to remap_file_pages.2.
mount.2
Kenichi Okuyama
s/MNT_FORCE/MNT_EXPIRE/ under EINVAL error.
mremap.2
Mike Frysinger
s/unsigned long flags/int flags/ in SYNOPSIS.
pipe.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to popen.3.
posix_fadvise.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to readahead.2.
read.2
mtk
SEE ALSO for readv should refer to Section 2, not 3.
readahead.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to posix_fadvise.2.
send.2
Peter Eiserloh
Fix missing arguments in statement about equivalent send()
and sendto() calls.
setsid.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to tcgetsid.3.
shmctl.2
mtk
Minor wording change at start of DESCRIPTION.
stat.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to access.2.
statfs.2
mtk
Relocated "Note" about f_fsid.
write.2
mtk
SEE ALSO for writev should refer to Section 2, not 3.
__setfpucw.3
mtk, Joey
Added license statement (GPL) after consultation with
Joerg Scheurich.
assert_perror.3
Justin Pryzby
Add #define _GNU_SOURCE to prototype
difftime.3
Joey
Added note about time_t representation on other systems.
Added CONFORMING TO.
ftw.3
Justin Pryzby / mtk
A fairly major revision...
Document FTW_ACTIONRETVAL; include .SH "RETURN VALUE";
Reorganized and rewrote much of the page
Added an example program.
inet.3
Marc Lehmann
Fixed typo in NOTES.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=370277
isalpha.3
Joey
Updated CONFORMING TO.
mktemp.3
mtk
Updated CONFORMING TO.
printf.3
Walter Harms
Add documentation of %m.
readdir.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to ftw.3.
re_comp.3
mtk
Note that these functions are obsolete in favor of regcomp(3).
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO referring to regcomp.3
scandir.3
Mats Wichmann
Reworded CONFORMING TO statement on scandir() and alphasort().
strchr.3
Stefan Puiu
Fix prototype for strchrnul().
strtoul.3
Stefan Puiu
Add text clarifying treatment of strings starting with
minus sign.
tmpnam.3
mtk, after comments by Justin Pryzby
Add text noting the need to use open(O_EXCL).
mtk
Clarify discussion of use of free(3).
Various other minor changes to text and formatting.
tmpfile.3
mtk
Updated CONFORMING TO.
tmpnam.3
mtk, after comments by Justin Pryzby
Add text noting the need to use open(O_EXCL).
Updated CONFORMING TO.
undocumented.3
mtk
Remove offsetof(), which is now documented.
null.4
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to full.4.
console_codes.4
Thomas Dickey
Various improvements and corrections.
epoll.7
mtk
Added CONFORMING TO section mentioning FreeBSD kqueue and
Solaris /dev/poll.
feature_test_macros.7
mtk
Added pointer to location of LFS specification.
futex.7
mtk, after suggestion by Joey.
Added license statement to page, after discussion with
original author, bert hubert.
mtk
Reformat long lines; no content changes.
inotify.7
mtk
'path' argument renamed to 'pathname'.
A few minor rewordings.
Added BUGS section describing a couple of bugs.
ip.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to byteorder.3.
man.7
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO referring to groff_man(7).
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369253
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.35 ====================
Released: 2006-07-06
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Bauke Jan Douma <bjdouma@xs4all.nl>
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
Horacio Rodriguez Montero <Horacio.Rodriguez.Montero@galinter.com.ar>
Johan Lithander <johan.lithander@teligent.se>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
sync_file_range.2
Andrew Morton / mtk
New page for sync_file_range(2), new in kernel 2.6.17.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
adjtime.3
mtk
Noted BUG that occurs if 'delta' is specified as NULL.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761
bind.2
Stefan Puiu
Add EADDRNOTAVAIL error.
Stefan Puiu / mtk
Make example code more complete.
epoll_ctl.2
mtk / Davide Libenzi
Added EPOLLRDHUP description.
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to poll.2.
poll.2
mtk / Davide Libenzi
Added POLLRDHUP description.
mtk
The correct header file is <poll.h>, not <sys/poll.h>.
Rewrote and reformatted various other parts.
readlink.2
mtk
Nowadays, readlink() returns 'ssize_t', as required in
POSIX.1-2001.
wavelan.4
mtk
Added license statement.
nscd.conf.5
Thorsten Kukuk
Add documentation for various new fields.
passwd.5
Horacio Rodriguez Montero
Add explanation of 'x' character in 'password' field.
mtk
The proper name of "*" is "asterisk" not "star".
tcp.7
Johan Lithander
Update RFC reference for ECN.
Andi Kleen
Add sentence on "low memory" limit for tcp_mem on 32-bit systems.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.36 ====================
Released: 2006-07-11
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Jens Axboe <jans@suse.de>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
MAINTAINING
mtk
How to maintain man-pages.
TODO
mtk
Things that it would be nice to get done for man-pages one day.
scripts/FIXME_list.sh
mtk
This script, intended for use by manual page maintainers,
displays the FIXMEs in the manual page source files.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fdatasync.2
fsync.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to sync_file_range.2.
sendfile.2
mtk / Jens Axboe
Fix description of 'offset' argument to explain the case
where 'offset' is NULL.
ferror.3
Justin Pryzby
Add SEE ALSO referring to fdopen.3.
intro.3
mtk
Removed information about Section 3 subsections -- it doesn't
reflect current reality, and probably never has.
Added SEE ALSO referring to intro.2.
tcp.7
Kyle McMartin
Correction: tcp_window_scaling is ENabled by default.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.37 ====================
Released: 2006-08-02
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Dean Gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Frank van Viegen <F.C.vanViegen@UTwente.nl>
Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Thomas Huriaux / mtk
Various formatting problems found as a result of reviewing the
following command were fixed.
for a in $(wc -l man?/*.?| awk '$1 > 2 {print $2}' | grep -v total); do
echo $a; groff -Tascii -wmac -mman $a > /dev/null;
done 2>&1 | less
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=378544
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
readlinkat.2
mtk (after prompting from Ivana Varekova)
New page for readlinkat(2), new in kernel 2.6.16.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
ldd.1
Ville Skyttä
Document "-u" option.
chdir.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on current working directory.
chroot.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on root directory.
epoll_ctl.2
Frank van Viegen / mtk
Fix description of EBADF error.
exevce.2
mtk
Add text noting that effective IDs are copied to
saved set-IDs during execve().
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379297
getitimer.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on interval timers.
getrlimit.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on resource limits.
getpriority.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve().
inotify_add_watch.2
mtk
Some rewording; included text describing required file
permissions.
intro.2
mtk
Revised description of standards under CONFORMING TO.
makecontext.3
Helmut Grohne / mtk
Point out that args following 'argc' are int.
mtk
Added an example program.
Various minor wording fixes.
mmap.2
mtk
Expand description of MAP_POPULATE.
mtk, after prompting by Dean Gaudet
Expand description MAP_NONBLOCK.
mtk
Various minor formatting fixes.
openat.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.
nanosleep.2
mtk
Noted buggy behavior in Linux 2.4 and earlier when
nanosleep() is restarted after receiving stop+SIGCONT signals.
nice.2
mtk
Very minor rewording.
readlink.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO linking to readlinkat.2.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk
Noted preservation of scheduling parameters across execve().
setpgid.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on process group ID.
setsid.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on session ID.
umask.2
mtk
Noted effect of fork() and execve() on umask.
atexit.3
mtk
Noted inheritance of registrations across fork().
capabilities.7
mtk
Added material on privileges required for move_pages().
CLONE_NEWNS needs CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
keyctl(KEYCTL_CHOWN) and keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM) require
CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.38 ====================
Released: 2006-08-03
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Most pages
mtk
There was a major reworking of the CONFORMING TO sections
in most manual pages.
* generally try to rationalize the names used for standards.
The preferred names are now documented as the head words
of the list in standards(7). For the future: there is
probably no need to talk about anything more than
C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001 (or later), xBSD, and SVr4.
(In particular, I've eliminated most references to XPG
and SVID, replacing them with references to SUS or SVr4.)
* eliminate discussion of errors that can occur on other
systems. This information exists only patchily in the
manual pages, is probably of limited use, is hard to maintain,
and was in some cases simply wrong (and probably always was).
* Tried to ensure that those interfaces specified in C99 or
POSIX.1-2001 are marked as such in their manual pages.
intro.1
intro.2
intro.3
intro.4
intro.5
intro.7
feature_test_macros.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to new standards.7.
Various pages
mtk
Changed instances of "HP UX" to "HP-UX".
Various pages
mtk
Changed instances of "DG-UX to "DG/UX"
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
standards.7
mtk
Based on material taken from intro.2, but expanded to
include discussion of many additional standards.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bind.2
mtk
Minor wording change for ENOTSOCK error.
intro.2
mtk
Removed information on standards to new standards.7.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.39 ====================
Released: 2006-08-05
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
Updated CONFORMING TO and/or standards references
in various pages that were missed for 2.38.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
chdir.2
mtk
_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 also gets fchdir() prototype.
standards.7
mtk
Added a few more standards, and expand some explanations.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.40 ====================
Released: 2006-09-04
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
fchownat.2
fstatat.2
futimesat.2
linkat.2
mkdirat.2
mknodat.2
openat.2
readlinkat.2
renameat.2
symlinkat.2
mtk (after a note by Alain Portal)
Make naming of 'pathname' argument consistent; various
minor rewordings.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
mtk
Reinstate text on CLONE_DETACHED, and add a few words.
execve.2
mtk
Added list of process attributes that are not preserved on exec().
fork.2
mtk, after a suggestion by Christoph Hellwig
Greatly expanded, to describe all attributes that differ
in parent and child.
linkat.2
mtk
Document AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW (new in 2.6.18).
set_mempolicy.2
mtk / Andi Kleen
Memory policy is preserved across execve().
write.2
mtk / Alain Portal
SEE ALSO for writev should refer to Section 2, not 3.
(i.e., really make the change that was logged in 2.34)
getcwd.3
Samuel Thibault / mtk
Fix SYNOPSIS and CONFORMING TO text for getwd() and
get_current_dir().
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381692
proc.5
Chuck Ebbert
Document /proc/PID/auxv.
capabilities.7
Alain Portal
Restore text accidentally deleted in 2.39.
regex.7
mtk / Alain Portal
Change references to "1003.2" to "POSIX.2".
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.41 ====================
Released: 2006-10-12
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Britton Leo Kerin <bkerin_rb@letterboxes.org>
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Senthil Kumar <senthilkumar_sen@hotpop.com>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@connecttech.com>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
splice.2
tee.2
vmsplice.2
Jens Axboe / Michael Kerrisk
See also:
http://lwn.net/Articles/118760/
http://lwn.net/Articles/178199/
http://lwn.net/Articles/179492/
http://kerneltrap.org/node/6505
http://lwn.net/Articles/179434/
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
ldd.1
Stefan Puiu
Note glibc version where "ldd -u" appeared.
execve.2
mtk
The PR_SET_NAME setting is not preserved across an execve().
fork.2
mtk
Mappings marked with madvise(MADV_DONTFORK) are not inherited
by child.
getdtablesize.2
mtk
Noted that sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) is preferred in portable
applications.
getpagesize.2
mtk
Noted that sysconf(_SC_PAGE_SIZE) is preferred in portable
applications.
_SC_PAGE_SIZE is available on most systems.
madvise.2
mtk
Document MADV_REMOVE, new in 2.6.16.
Document MADV_DONTFORK / MADV_DOFORK, new in 2.6.16.
mount.2
mtk / Trond Myklebust
MNT_FORCE can cause data loss.
mmap.2
mtk
Added note on Linux's old (pre-2.6.12) buggy treatment of
length==0.
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Added some EINVAL errors.
mremap.2
mtk
Remove superfluous "#include <unistd.h>" from SYNOPSIS.
msync.2
mtk
Added EBUSY error for case where MS_INVALIDATE is applied to
a locked region.
posix_fadvise.2
Andrew Morton
Since 2.6.18, POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE is a no-op.
prctl.2
Marcel Holtmann / mtk
Since kernel 2.6.18, setting 2 for PR_SET_DUMPABLE is no longer
possible.
Guillem Jover
Updated Linux versions where the options where introduced.
Added PR_SET_TIMING, PR_GET_TIMING, PR_SET_NAME, PR_GET_NAME,
PR_SET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_SET_FPEMU, PR_GET_FPEMU,
PR_SET_FPEXC, PR_GET_FPEXC.
Michael Kerrisk
Document PR_GET_ENDIAN and PR_SET_ENDIAN.
remap_file_pages.2
mtk
Add "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS.
sync_file_range.2
mtk
Noted that sync_file_range() appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
vfork.2
mtk
Noted interactions with fork handlers in multithreaded programs.
wait4.2
mtk
Added feature test macros to SYNOPSIS.
clog2.3
mtk / aeb / Kevin Ryde
Fix broken text in description.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386214
clog10.3
Kevin Ryde
Fix broken text in description.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386214
mq_receive.3
Britton Leo Kerin
Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; should be "ssize_t" not "mqd_t".
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387551
qsort.2
Hrvoje Niksic
Fix wording referring to the use of strcmp() in 'compar'
function.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=391402
sendfile.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to new splice.2 page.
termios.3
mtk
Documented IUTF8 (which was new in kernel 2.6.4).
tzset.3
mtk
Added some TZ examples.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386087
proc.5
mtk
Added delayacct_blkio_ticks (new in 2.6.18) to /proc/PID/statm.
ip.7
Stuart MacDonald / Andi Kleen
Fix discussion for TCP error queue /IP_RECVERR on TCP.
pthreads.7
mtk
Noted effect of RLIMIT_STACK resource limit for NPTL.
socket.7
Senthil Kumar
Place socket options in alphabetical order.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.42 ====================
Released: 2006-11-24
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>
Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
Evan Teran <eteran@alum.rit.edu>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
brk.2
Evan Teran / mtk
Add text describing behavior of the Linux brk() system call
and point out that the glibc brk() wrapper provides different
behavior.
mtk
Note that sbrk() is implemented as a library function in glibc
that calls the brk() system call.
futex.2
mtk
FUTEX_FD is scheduled for removal in June 2007.
getaddrinfo.3
getnameinfo.3
Ulrich Drepper, with edits by mtk
Add text describing Internationalized Domain Name
extensions.
open.2
mtk / Eduard Bloch
Fix description of O_LARGEFILE to mention required feature test
macros.
ptrace.2
Chuck Ebbert
Since Linux 2.6.18, the PID of the new process is also available
for PTRACE_EVENT_VFORKDONE.
syslog.3
Doug Goldstein
Fix header file required for vsyslog() in SYNOPSIS.
wcwidth.3
Petr Baudis
Fix CONFORMING TO.
core.5
mtk
Linux 2.4.21 added core_pattern (which was already in 2.6).
Noted a few more reasons why a core dump file might not
be produced.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.43 ====================
Released: 2006-11-29
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Eduard Bloch <blade@debian.org>
Egmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
ioperm.2
mtk
Clarify discussion of privilege requirements.
Added ENOMEM to ERRORS.
open.2
mtk / Eduard Bloch
Clarify description of O_LARGEFILE.
crypt.3
Egmont Koblinger
Make description of MD5 output string less ambiguous.
strerror.3
Reuben Thomas
Add C99 to CONFORMING TO; see
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400634
rtc.4
David Brownell
Update the RTC man page to reflect the new RTC class framework:
- Generalize ... it's not just for PC/AT style RTCs, and there
may be more than one RTC per system.
- Not all RTCs expose the same feature set as PC/AT ones; most
of these ioctls will be rejected by some RTCs.
- Be explicit about when {A,P}IE_{ON,OFF} calls are needed.
- Describe the parameter to the get/set epoch request; correct
the description of the get/set frequency parameter.
- Document RTC_WKALM_{RD,SET}, which don't need AIE_{ON,OFF} and
which support longer alarm periods.
- Hey, not all system clock implementations count timer irqs any
more now that the new RT-derived clock support is merging.
proc.5
mtk
s/fseek(3)/lseek(2)/ under /proc/PID/mem entry.
feature_test_macros.7
mtk / Eduard Bloch
The LFS spec is now at http://opengroup.org/platform/lfs.html
raw.7
udp.7
Andi Kleen
Describe the correct default for UDP/RAW path MTU discovery.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.44 ====================
Released: 2007-04-04
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andre Majorel <aym-naideb@teaser.fr>
Benjamin Gilbert <bgilbert@cs.cmu.edu>
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
John Ward <jward@idealcorp.com>
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <jorgepeixotomorais@gmail.com>
Julien Blache <jblache@debian.org>
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Nick Pollitt <npollitt@mvista.com>
Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Premysl Hruby <dfenze@gmail.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Val Henson <val_henson@linux.intel.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
termio.7
mtk, after a bit of prodding by Reuben Thomas
A brief discussion of the old System V termio interface,
with pointers to pages that will contain the information
that the reader probably wants.
scripts/find_repeated_words.sh
mtk
Find consecutive duplicate words in a man page, some of
which may be grammar errors.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Add "#define _ATFILE_SOURCE" to SYNOPSIS in following pages:
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
fchownat.2
fstatat.2
futimesat.2
linkat.2
mkdirat.2
mknodat.2
openat.2
readlinkat.2
renameat.2
symlinkat.2
unlinkat.2
mkfifoat.3
Various pages
mtk
Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
that is the manual page more likely to be found on current systems.
Various pages
mtk, after a suggestion by Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Updated various header pages to accurately reflect which functions
are and are not part of C89. Also fixed/improved a few other
CONFORMING TO entries.
Various pages
mtk
s/Unices/Unix systems/ on the 5 pages where it appears.
Various pages
mtk
Wrapped long source lines in the following files
getsockopt.2
mknodat.2
io_setup.2
select_tut.2
select.2
readlinkat.2
io_cancel.2
syslog.2
wcsncat.3
getipnodebyname.3
cmsg.3
wcpncpy.3
wcsrtombs.3
wcstok.3
fgetwc.3
wmemcmp.3
wcsspn.3
div.3
modf.3
stdio_ext.3
ctermid.3
des_crypt.3
wcsncmp.3
wmemchr.3
wcsstr.3
wmemcpy.3
wprintf.3
wcsnrtombs.3
termios.3
erf.3
ceil.3
lround.3
nextafter.3
wcsncpy.3
wmemset.3
getw.3
console_ioctl.4
sk98lin.4
environ.7
unix.7
time.7
Various pages
mtk
Added a SEE ALSO reference for feature_test_macros(7) to all
pages where a feature test macro appears in the SYNOPSIS.
Various pages
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry pointing to time.7
alarm.2
nanosleep.2
ualarm.3
usleep.3
Various pages
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Fixed consecutive duplicate word typos on a number of pages.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places. (Special thanks to Nicolas François!)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
mtk
Since 2.6.20, access() honors the MS_NOEXEC mount flag.
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto / mtk
Improve ENOENT description.
clone.2
mtk
Added some detail to the prototype.
Added some notes on IA-64's clone2().
epoll_ctl.2
mtk
Add text to note that EPOLLRDHUP appeared in kernel 2.6.17.
faccessat.2
Justin Pryzby
Various fixes as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411177
* s/effective/real/ in description text.
* added <fcntl.h> to synopsis.
* various other changes.
getrlimit.2
mtk / Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
Added a few words to note that RLIMIT_NPROC is really a limit on
threads.
io_cancel.2
io_destroy.2
io_getevents.2
io_setup.2
io_submit.2
Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
s%linux/aio.h%libaio.h% in SYNOPSIS.
Changed return type from "long" to "int".
mbind.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
Fix EINVAL description.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411777
mincore.2
Nick Piggin
Kernel 2.6.21 fixes several earlier bugs in mincore().
Nick Pollitt
Remove words "of a file" -- mincore() is describing
memory residence information, not properties of a file.
mtk
Rewrote various parts to make the page clearer.
mmap.2
mtk
Rewrote and reorganized various parts to be clearer.
Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
Removed text stating that mmap() never returns 0; that's
not true.
mount.2
mtk / Val Henson
Document MS_RELATIME, new in Linux 2.6.20.
open.2
Andre Majorel / mtk
On Linux, the error returned when opening a large file on a
32-bit system is actually EFBIG, not EOVERFLOW.
posix_fadvise.2
Pádraig Brady
Fix RETURN VALUE description: returns error number of failure.
rename.2
mtk / Timo Sirainen
Various improvements to DESCRIPTION.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=416012
semop.2
mtk
If sops contains multiple operations, then these are performed
in array order. All Unix systems that I know of do this,
and some Linux applications depend on this behavior. SUSv3
made no explicit statement here, but SUSv4 will explicitly
require this behavior.
Small rewording of explanation of "atomically".
signal.2
Nicolas François
Fix incorrect argument name in DESCRIPTION.
mtk
Small wording improvement.
socket.2
Nicolas François
Add reference to ipv6.7 page.
socketcall.2
Nicolas François
Fix .TH line.
splice.2
Benjamin Gilbert
Fix inconsistent argument names in SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION.
statvfs.2
mtk
Small wording clarification.
symlink.2
mtk / Nicolas François
Removed cryptic text under CONFORMING to referring to
"open(2) and NFS". There is no relevant text in open.2 as
far as I (mtk) can see.
time.2
mtk / Reuben Thomas
Remove sentence "gettimeofday() obsoleting time() on 4.3BSD".
This information is old, and probably no longer relevant.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403888
write.2
mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
Clarified discussion of /count == 0/ case.
ptrace.2
Chuck Ebbert
When the parent receives an event with PTRACE_EVENT_* set,
the child is not in the normal signal delivery path. This
means the parent cannot do ptrace(PTRACE_CONT) with a signal
or ptrace(PTRACE_KILL). kill() with a SIGKILL signal can be
used instead to kill the child process after receiving one
of these messages.
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Fix glibc version number in description of 'cpusetsize' argument.
vfork.2
mtk
Stripped some excess/outdated text from the BUGS section.
basename.3
mtk / Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Add text to clarify that the pointer returned by these
functions may be into some part of 'path'.
dlopen.3
Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
+ Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon
Add "#include <stdlib.h>" to example program.
fclose.3
mtk
Complete rewrite. The existing page was hard to read,
and the RETURN VALUE description seems to be wrong.
getopt.3
mtk
Added getopt() example program.
mtk
Add a few words to clarify the operation of the GNU-specific
double-colon feature, which allows options to have optional
arguments.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=352139
glob.3
Nicolas François
Fix PROTOTYPE.
inet_network.3
mtk, after an idea from a downstream Fedora patch.
Clarified description of inet_network().
log.3
Nicolas François
Fix .TH line.
log10.3
Nicolas François
Fix .TH line.
malloc.3
Nicolas François
Small rewording to mention calloc().
posix_openpt.3
Martín Ferrari
Fix return type in SYNOPSIS; as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400971
Needs _XOPEN_SOURCE == 600; as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=400975
Julien BLACHE
s/ptsname/posix_openpt/ in RETURN VALUE
re_comp.3
Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
Add "#define _REGEX_RE_COMP" to SYNOPSIS.
regex.3
Nicolas François
Fix .TH line.
termios.3
mtk
Added .SS headers to give some structure to this page; and a small
amount of reordering.
mtk
Added a section on canonical and non-canonical mode.
mtk
Enhanced the discussion of "raw" mode for cfmakeraw().
mtk
Document CMSPAR.
mtk
Make description of PARODD a little clearer.
Reuben Thomas
Add SEE ALSO link to tty_ioctl.4
mtk
Add SEE ALSO link to console_ioctl.4
ualarm.3
mtk
Removed BSD prototype from synopsis.
Various rewordings.
usleep.3
mtk
Removed BSD prototype from synopsis.
Various rewordings.
termcap.5
Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
s/curses/ncurses/ under SEE ALSO
bootparam.7
Taken from Fedora downstream patches; thanks to Ivana Varekova
Documented "mem=nopentium".
feature_test_macros.7
mtk
The default treatment of _POSIX_C_SOURCE changed in glibc 2.4.
mtk, after a suggestion by Justin Pryzby
Added some text warning that the "__" macros that
<features.h> defines internally should never be
directly defined by programs.
mtk, based on notes by Jakub Jelinek
Document _FORTIFY_SOURCE
(See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-09/msg02055.html )
mtk
Document _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE.
mdoc.7
mtk / Nicolas François
Remove CONFIGURATION section, since this does not seem to be
true for Linux.
svipc.7
Nicolas François
Fix data types in associated data structures;
remove nonexistent semzcnt and semncnt fields.
time.7
mtk
Since kernel 2.6.20, the software clock can also be 300 HZ.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.45 ====================
Released: 2007-04-05
Global changes
--------------
This release consists mainly of formatting fixes (to a large
number of pages) to achieve greater consistency across pages.
With the exception of the few individual changes noted below,
no changes were made to content.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
io_destroy.2
io_getevents.2
io_setup.2
io_cancel.2
io_submit.2
mtk
Clarified RETURN VALUE text
bindresvport.3
mtk
Rewrote prototype using modern C syntax.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.46 ====================
Released: 2007-04-06
Global changes
--------------
This release consists mainly of formatting fixes (to a large
number of pages) to achieve greater consistency across pages:
* Most instances of two or more consecutive blank lines in man
page output were shrunk to a single line.
* A number of example programs were reformatted
to more closely match K&R style.
* In various places (mainly code examples), the use of tabs was
replaced by spaces
With the exception of the few individual changes noted below,
no changes were made to content.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bdflush.2
mtk
Add <sys/kdaemon.h> header file to SYNOPSIS.
sched_rr_get_interval.2
mtk
Moved timespec definition from SYNOPSIS into description.
select_tut.2
mtk
Make SYNOPSIS match select.2.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.47 ====================
Released: 2007-05-04
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
John Heffner <jheffner@psc.edu>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
This release consists mainly of changes to source file layout
(wrapped long lines; stripped trailing white space; started new
sentences on new lines).
There is very little change to output formatting or content (see the
notes below).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
sched_rr_get_interval.2
mtk
Remove crufty statement that this system call is not implemented.
The nice interval can be used to control the size of
the round-robin quantum.
Corrected .TH line.
ip.7
John Heffner / mtk
Document IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE, which will be in 2.6.22.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.48 ====================
Released: 2007-05-04
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
This release consists mainly of changes to source file layout
(wrapped long lines; stripped trailing white space; started new
sentences on new lines).
There is very little change to output formatting or content (see the
notes below).
Various pages
mtk
In various places where it occurred,
s/nonnegative/non-negative/
Various pages
mtk
s/wide character/wide-character/ when used attributively.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
man.7
Justin Pryzby / Colin Watson / mtk
.SH doesn't require quotes.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411303
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.49 ====================
Released: 2007-05-20
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@dd.iij4u.or.jp>
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New pages
---------
bsd_signal.3
mtk
Documentation of bsd_signal().
euidaccess.3
mtk
Manual page for euidaccess() and eaccess().
getsubopt.3
mtk / Justin Pryzby
Documentation of getsubopt().
sysv_signal.3
mtk
Documentation of sysv_signal().
New links
---------
epoll_pwait.2
mtk
New link to epoll_wait.2.
eaccess.3
mtk
New link to new euidaccess.3,
sem_timedwait.3
mtk
New link to sem_wait.3.
sem_trywait.3
mtk
New link to sem_wait.3.
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page.
epoll_wait.2
mtk
Added description of epoll_pwait(), new in kernel 2.6.19.
execve.2
mtk
Add text noting that Linux allows 'argv' and 'envp' to be
NULL, but warning that this is non-standard and non-portable,
and should be avoided in portable programs.
Bug filed (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408)
to get this changed, but maybe that won't be done because it
is an ABI change.
mtk
Added an example program.
mtk
Expanded the discussion of interpreter scripts and the
'optional-arg' argument of an interpreter script.
For further info, see
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/std/hashexclam-1.html
http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/
mtk
Added text noting that FD_CLOEXEC causes record locks to be
released.
mtk
Mention effect of MS_NOSUID mount(2) flag for set-user-ID
programs.
mtk
Expanded description of handling of file descriptors during
execve(), adding text to note that descriptors 0, 1, and 2
may be treated specially.
faccessat.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO ref to new euidaccess.3 page.
mmap.2
mtk
Place MAP_* flags list in alphabetical order.
readv.2
mtk
A fairly substantial rewrite, which among other things
fixes the problem reported by Kyle Sluder in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8399
And added some example code.
sigaction.2
mtk
Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
functions in signal(7).
A few other minor formatting and wording changes.
signal.2
mtk
Moved the discussion of async-signal-safe functions to signal(7).
Added text referring to the discussion of async-signal-safe
functions in signal(7).
Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and
sysv_signal.3 pages.
copysign.3
Bruno Haible
Clarify discussion of negative zero.
getopt.3
mtk
Add SEE ALSO ref to new getsubopt.3.
iconv_open.3
Bruno Haible
Describe the glibc/libiconv //TRANSLIT and //IGNORE extensions
for 'tocode'.
iswblank.3
Bruno Haible
Update CONFORMING TO; iswblank() is in POSIX.1-2001.
inotify.7
mtk
Definitions for IN_DONT_FOLLOW, IN_MASK_ADD, and IN_ONLYDIR
were added to glibc in version 2.5.
signal.7
mtk
Incorporated (and slightly modified) the text on
async-signal-safe functions that was formerly in signal(2).
Added SEE ALSO entries referring to new bsd_signal.3 and
sysv_signal.3 pages.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.50 ====================
Released: 2007-05-21
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andreas Halter <halter@google.com>
Laird Shaw <netocrat@dodo.com.au>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Removed pages (!)
-----------------
Most Section 1 man pages are removed
mtk (with help from Mike Frysinger, Laird Shaw, Andreas Halter)
Once upon time Andries added a number of Section 1 manual pages
to man-pages. However, since that time, those pages have not
seen much maintenance, and are not in fact distributed in most
distributions. Instead most distributions supply the
coreutils versions of these pages, which are currently
maintained. In addition, man-pages provides the 1p pages,
which document the portable subset of functionality of these
commands. Since the man1 pages are mostly unneeded, and
out of date, I'm removing them. The following pages disappear:
chgrp.1
chmod.1
chown.1
cp.1
dd.1
df.1
diff.1
dir.1
dircolors.1
du.1
install.1
ln.1
ls.1
mkdir.1
mkfifo.1
mknod.1
mv.1
rm.1
rmdir.1
touch.1
vdir.1
The following Section 1 pages will be kept:
intro.1
ldd.1
time.1
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.51 ====================
Released: 2007-05-28
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
(Hopefully) all cross references outside a page now include a
section number. This should permit better resulting output
from a man2html-type conversion.
Various pages
mtk
Convert function formatting of the form "\fBname\fP()" to
".BR name ()".
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
futimesat.2
mtk
s/futimes/futimesat/ in .SH NAME line.
msgop.2
mtk
Put "msgrcv" and "msgsnd" in .SH NAME line.
mount.2
mtk
Add "umount2" to .SH NAME line.
wait.2
mtk
Add "waitid" to .SH NAME line.
getopt.3
mtk
Add "getopt_long" and "getopt_long_only" in .SH NAME line.
sem_wait.3
mtk
Add "sem_timedwait" and "sem_trywait" to .SH NAME line.
stdarg.3
mtk
Add "va_start", "va_arg", "va_end", "va_copy" to .SH NAME line.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.52 ====================
Released: 2007-05-29
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines"
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"But damn it, these man pages are a mess!"
Global changes
--------------
Most of the changes below are about bringing greater consistency
to manual pages, including reducing the wide range of .SH
Section headings.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Various pages
mtk
Make 'manual' component of .TH line into the string
"Linux Programmer's Manual".
Reason: consistency.
Various pages
mtk
Changed date in .TH line into form YYYY-DD-MM.
Reason: consistency.
Various pages
mtk
Some .SH header lines were made into .SS lines. (One of the aims
here is to reduce the number of non-standard .SH lines.)
Various pages
mtk
Change title .SH sections named "NOTE" to "NOTES", in some cases
also changing the location of the section within the page.
Reason: consistency.
Various pages
mtk
Commented out .SH AUTHOR sections; the right place for
documentation authorship sections is usually comments at the
top of the page source.
Various pages
mtk
Changed .SH HISTORY to .SH VERSIONS.
Reason: in many cases, HISTORY was being used to describe
Linux/glibc version information, as was already done for
VERSIONS sections in other pages.
Various pages
mtk
Removed HISTORY section, or moved it as a subsection or paragraphs
under another section e.g., NOTES.
Reason: there are too many arbitrary section (.SH) names, and
a HISTORY section never was consistently used across Linux
manual pages.
Various pages
mtk
Moved SEE ALSO section to be last section on the page
Reason: consistency -- and this is where SEE ALSO should be!
Various pages
mtk
Relocated GLIBC NOTES as subsection under NOTES
Reason: reduce number of arbitrary section (.SH) names.
Various pages
mtk
Relocated LINUX NOTES as subsection under NOTES
Reason: reduce number of arbitrary section (.SH) names.
Various pages
mtk
Renamed some "AVAILABILITY" sections to "VERSIONS".
Reason: consistency.
Various pages
mtk
Renamed some "DIAGNOSTICS" sections to "RETURN VALUE".
Reason: consistency.
getopt.3
tzselect.8
mtk
s/\.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES/.SH ENVIRONMENT/
Reason: consistency.
intro.2
select.2
sysctl.2
bsearch.3
dlopen.3
envz_add.3
fmtmsg.3
getgrent_r.3
getgrouplist.3
getpwent_r.3
getutent.3
hsearch.3
rtime.3
strptime.3
tsearch.3
vcs.4
wordexp.3
mtk
s/return 0/exit(EXIT_FAILURE)/ in main() of function example
program.
Reason: consistency.
mprotect.2
select_tut.2
dlopen.3
getgrent_r.3
getopt.3
getpwent_r.3
hsearch.3
select_tut.2
tsearch.3
mtk
Use symbolic constants (EXIT_SUCCESS, EXIT_FAILURE) in calls
to exit().
Reason: consistency.
access.2
chown.2
lseek.2
open.2
read.2
utmp.5
mtk
Renamed RESTRICTIONS section to NOTES, or moved text in a
RESTRICTIONS section under existing NOTES section.
Reason: consistency, and reduce number of arbitrary section (.SH)
names.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
capget.2
mtk
s/\.SH FURTHER INFORMATION/.SH NOTES/
dup.2
mtk
s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/
kill.2
mtk
Renamed LINUX HISTORY section to LINUX NOTES, and relocated
within page.
select_tut.2
mtk
Relocated example program and made its .SH title "EXAMPLE".
sigaltstack.2
mtk
Move code example into its own EXAMPLE section.
sigreturn.2
mtk
s/\.SH WARNING/.SH NOTES/
setuid.2
mtk
s/\.SH "LINUX-SPECIFIC REMARKS"/.SH LINUX NOTES/
shmget.2
mtk
Remove section about effect of fork()/exec()/exit(); shmop.2
contains the same text, and it only needs to be said once.
shmop.2
mtk
Minor rewording under DESCRIPTION.
daemon.3
mtk
Minor wording and formatting changes.
encrypt.3
mtk
Removed statement that glibc unconditionally exposes declarations
of encrypt() and setkey(), since portable applications must
use <unistd.h> and define _XOPEN_SOURCE to obtain the declarations
of setkey() and encrypt(). Adjusted example program accordingly.
mkstemp.3
mtk
Slight rewording.
LDP.7
mtk
Minor wording and formatting changes.
man.7
mtk
Substantial rewrite, revising and extending the discussion
about desired conventions for writing pages.
There will be further updates to this page in the next few
man-pages releases.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.53 ====================
Released: 2007-05-30
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines"
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"But damn it, these man pages are a mess!"
Global changes
--------------
Many many pages
mtk
Reordered sections to be more consistent, in some cases renaming
sections or shifting paragraphs between sections.
man7/*
mtk
In various pages in this section, .SH headings were
converted to .SS.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.54 ====================
Released: 2007-06-07
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Emmanuel Mogenet <emogenet@google.com>
Michael Berg <michaeljberg@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
Where there is an instruction in the SYNOPSIS about linking
or compiling with a certain option, the option is now
marked up in italics (e.g., "\fI-lm\fP").
Various pages
mtk
Added page numbers to page cross references.
A few pages
mtk
s/manpage/man page/, for consistency.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
man-pages.7
mtk
A description of the conventions that should be followed
when writing pages for the man-pages package.
Removed pages
-------------
man1/README
mtk
Already deleted most of the man1 pages previously, so
this doesn't need to stay.
LDP.7
mtk
Removed this page since it is out of date, and the proper place
to go for up-to-date information is http://www.tldp.org/
ksoftirq.9
mtk
Reason: this was the only Section 9 page, and it is old
(Linux 2.4). The man9 section never took off as an idea, and
I see little point in keeping a Section 9 with just a single
old page.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
HOWTOHELP
mtk
Moved some material out of here into new man-pages.7.
alloc_hugepages.2
mtk
Minor rewrites, eliminating some duplication, and removing
some outdated text.
epoll_pwait.2
Michael Berg
Fix broken link path;
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425570
fcntl.2
mtk
Remove misleading text about setting O_ASYNC when calling
open(); one must use fcntl() F_SETFL for this task.
fdatasync.2
mtk
Converted outdated BUGS note about fdatasync() being
equivalent to fsync() on Linux 2.2 into a NOTES note
about this historical behavior.
futex.2
mtk
Small rewording to fix "fails with the error EWOULDBLOCK"
rather than "returns EWOULDBLOCK".
See Red Hat bug 172828.
mprotect.2
mtk, after an observation by Emmanuel Mogenet
A much improved example program.
mtk
Significant rewrites and additions to description.
mremap.2
mtk
Remove text about the nonexistent BSD mremap() -- too
much information, in my opinion.
sched_yield.2
mtk
Added ERRORS section.
set_mempolicy.2
mtk
Moved text for "Versions and Library Support".
set_tid_address.2
mtk
Small rewording in RETURN VALUE section.
sigaction.2
mtk
Add EXAMPLE section with a pointer to example in mprotect.2.
sync_file_range.2
mtk
Fix return type in SYNOPSIS. Add RETURN VALUE section.
atexit.3
mtk
Small rearrangement of text under NOTES.
bindresvport.3
mtk
Rewrite and substantial additional text.
exec.3
mtk
Minor clarifications for text on execlp() and execvp(). Removed
FILES section, since it provides no useful additional info.
fenv.3
mtk
Moved link instructions from NOTES to SYNOPSIS.
Added feenableexcept, fedisableexcept, fegetexcept
to .SH NAME list.
fputwc.3
mtk
Added 'putwc' to .SH NAME list.
gethostbyname.3
mtk
s/int/socklen_t/ for type of gethostbyaddr() 'len' argument,
and add a few more words in NOTES about the type used here.
login.3
mtk
Removed remark from NOTES about linking with -lutil; add
text on that point to SYNOPSIS.
openpty.3
mtk
Removed redundant remark from NOTES about linking with -lutil
since there is text on that point under SYNOPSIS.
sysconf.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to getconf(1).
unlocked_stdio.3
mtk
Revised .SH NAME section.
ascii.7
mtk
Minor rearrangement of order of text.
capabilities.7
mtk
s/exec()/execve(2)/ in various places.
complex.7
mtk
Changed "atan(1)" to "atan(1.0)" to prevent some versions of
man2html(1) from mistaking that string as a page cross reference.
rtnetlink.7
mtk
Small restructuring to avoid 'cannot adjust line' from man(1).
ldconfig.8
mtk
Removed now very out-of-date sentence about need to link shared
libraries with -lc.
man.7
mtk
Various text was moved out of this page into the new man-pages.7.
mdoc.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO referring to new man-pages.7.
mdoc.samples.7
mtk
A few changes, hopefully done right, to eliminate some
errors to stderr when rendering with man(1).
rtnetlink.7
mtk
Shorten a line in table so it fits in 80 columns.
Minor rewording under BUGS.
tzselect.8
mtk
Moved EXIT STATUS section.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.55 ====================
Released: 2007-06-10
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alexander Taboriskiy <alextab@math-solution.com>
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Serge van den Boom <svdb@stack.nl>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
clone.2
getdents.2
gettid.2
ioprio_set.2
llseek.2
mmap2.2
modify_ldt.2
mq_getsetattr.2
pivot_root.2
quotactl.2
readdir.2
sysctl.2
syslog.2
tkill.2
mtk, after a note by Mike Frysinger
Updated to reflect the fact that the _syscallN() macros
have gone away,
Several pages
mtk
Change reference to path_resolution.2 to path_resolution.7.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Moved pages
-----------
path_resolution.2 has been moved to section 7, thus path_resolution.7
mtk
Reason: this is an overview page, not one describing as
a specific system call.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
MAINTAINING
mtk, after a note from Xose Vazquez Perez
Added pointer to Red Hat man-pages bugzilla.
mtk
Added a release philosophy note on separating out big
formatting changes into their own release that contains minimal
content changes.
accept.2
mtk
Add new EXAMPLE section with pointer to example in bind.2.
arch_prctl.2
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE section.
bind.2
mtk
Expand example program, and move it to new EXAMPLE section.
Added text pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
cacheflush.2
mtk
Convert NOTES section to CONFORMING TO and note that
this call is Linux-specific.
Other minor rewordings.
connect.2
mtk
Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
create_module.2
mtk
Add ENOSYS error.
fcntl.2
flock.2
mtk
Small rewrite of SEE ALSO text pointing to Documentation/* in
kernel source.
get_kernel_syms.2
mtk
Added ERRORS heading
Add ENOSYS error.
getdtablesize.2
mtk
Added an ERRORS section.
getsid.2
mtk
Added a RETURN VALUE section.
getpid.2
mtk
Added an ERRORS section (stating that the calls are
always successful).
ioctl_list.2
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference to ioctl.2.
listen.2
mtk
Add new EXAMPLE section with pointer to example in bind.2.
query_module.2
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Add ENOSYS error.
recv.2
mtk
Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
sched_get_priority_max.2
sched_rr_get_interval.2
sched_setscheduler.2
sched_yield.2
mtk
Modified .TH line
send.2
mtk
Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
set_tid_address.2
mtk
Added an ERRORS section (stating that the call is
always successful).
signal.2
mtk, after a note from Alexander Taboriskiy
Strengthen warning against the use of signal().
Added siginterrupt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
mtk
Rewrote various parts; added an ERRORS section.
socket.2
mtk
Added new EXAMPLE section pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
stat.2
mtk
Added EXAMPLE program.
syscall.2
mtk
Converted to -man format; some rewrites; added an EXAMPLE.
sysctl.2
mtk
Improved the example program.
getnameinfo.3
mtk
Add text pointing to example in getaddrinfo.3.
getaddrinfo.3
mtk
Add example programs.
Add getnameinfo() to SEE ALSO list.
memmove.3
mtk / Serge van den Boom
Clarify discussion of what happens if 'src' and 'dest' overlap.
regex.3
Justin Pryzby
Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO list.
sigpause.3
mtk after a note from Ulrich Drepper
Clarify discussion of feature test macros that are needed to
expose System V and BSD versions of this function in glibc.
undocumented.3
mtk
Removed some functions that have been documented.
wprintf.2
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Remove wscanf.3 from SEE ALSO list, since that page does not exist.
utmp.5
Joey Hess
Removed outdated note on xdm.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418009
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Removed outdated note about Debian and libc5.
bootparam.7
Martin (Joey) Schulze
Fix order of commands listed under 'init='.
hier.7
Joey Hess
Add /media, remove /dos.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418234
inotify.7
mtk
Added text describing what happens when the buffer given to
read(2) is too small to return information about the next event,
and noting the behavior change in 2.6.21.
man-pages.7
mtk
Added text to note that ERRORS list should be in alphabetical order.
mdoc.7
mdoc.samples.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO reference to groff_mdoc(7).
unix.7
mtk
Added EXAMPLE section with pointer to bind.2 EXAMPLE.
ld.so.8
mtk
Simplify text describing --inhibit-rpath.
mtk, after a note by John Reiser
Describe use of $ORIGIN in rpath.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.56 ====================
Released: 2007-06-11
Global changes
--------------
Many pages
mtk
Removed version numbers in .TH lines.
Reason: these were only arbitrarily updated, and so impart no
useful information. Version information goes into a
VERSIONS section nowadays, and the date in the .TH line should
be updated to reflect the date of the last (significant)
change to the page.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.57 ====================
Released: 2007-06-17
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Many pages
mtk
Fix section numbers in page cross references.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
mtk
Minor wording fixes.
Small clarification of description of 'mode'.
bind.2
mtk
Small reworking of EXAMPLE program.
exit_group.2
mtk
Minor wording fixes.
exit.3
mtk
Added more detail on exit handlers.
Minor wording fixes.
ioctl.2
mtk
Remove SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent mt.4.
modify_ldt.2
Samuel Thibault / mtk
In Linux 2.6, the 'modify_ldt_ldt_s' structure was renamed
'user_desc'.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=378668
mtk
Include definition of 'user_desc' structure.
Minor rewordings.
mprotect.2
mtk
Small reworking of EXAMPLE program.
sigaction.2
mtk
Removed reference to nonexistent sigsend(2).
a64l.3
mtk
Remove SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent itoa.3.
dysize.3
mtk
Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent time.3.
encrypt.3
mtk
Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent fcrypt.3.
fmemopen.3
mtk
Small reworking of EXAMPLE program.
fpurge.3
mtk
Remove SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent fclean.3.
getutent.3
mtk
s/ttyname(0)/ttyname(STDIN_FILENO)/ in program example.
vcs.4
mtk
s/exit(1)/exit(EXIT_FAILURE)/
environ.7
mtk
Correct some section numbers in page cross references.
man-pages.7
mtk
Modify requirements for example programs a little.
uri.7
mtk
Wrapped long source lines.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.58 ====================
Released: 2007-06-24
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Marc Boyer <marc.boyer@enseeiht.fr>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages, as detailed below
mtk
Added or updated VERSIONS sections.
killpg.2
setuid.2
faccessat.2
fork.2
setfsuid.2
kill.2
getsid.2
wait.2
execve.2
getpid.2
setgid.2
seteuid.2
setresuid.2
setfsgid.2
access.2
initgroups.3
euidaccess.3
tcgetpgrp.3
path_resolution.7
capabilities.7
unix.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO link to new credentials.7.
New pages
---------
credentials.7
mtk
An overview of Linux process identifiers (PIDs, PPIDs,
PGIDS, SIDs, UIDs, GIDs).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bind.2
mtk
Added some comments to example program.
getxattr.2
mtk
VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
listen.2
mtk
Updated discussion of somaxconn limit.
listxattr.2
mtk
VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
posix_fadvise.2
mtk
VERSIONS: Glibc support has been provided since version 2.2.
readahead.2
mtk
Added VERSIONS section.
remap_file_pages.2
mtk
Updated VERSIONS section with text on glibc support.
removexattr.2
mtk
VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
semop.2
mtk
Added VERSIONS section with info on semtimedop().
setxattr.2
mtk
VERSIONS: In kernel since 2.4; glibc support since 2.3.
dl_iterate_phdr.3
mtk
VERSIONS: Supported since glibc 2.2.4.
getloadavg.3
mtk
Added VERSIONS section.
posix_openpt.3
mtk
VERSIONS: Supported since glibc 2.2.1.
printf.3
mtk after a suggestion by Mike Frysinger
Add text to the introductory part of DESCRIPTION, about the
'size' argument of snprintf() and vsnprintf().
shm_open.3
mtk
Added VERSIONS section; rewrote info about linking with -lrt.
strcat.3
Marc Boyer
Improve the discussion of strncat().
strcpy.3
Marc Boyer
Improve the discussion of strncpy().
proc.5
mtk
Added discussion of /proc/sys/net/core/somaxconn.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.59 ====================
Released: 2007-06-25
Global changes
--------------
Manual pages are now standardized on American spelling. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences
for more information on the differences. Formerly, different pages (and
sometimes even a single page!) employed American and British spelling
conventions; best to standardize on one spelling, and American English
is the standard in Computer Science.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
man-pages.7
mtk
Note that man-pages has now standardized on American spelling
conventions.
execve.2
getxattr.2
listxattr.2
removexattr.2
setxattr.2
signal.2
syscall.2
aio_cancel.3
bindresvport.3
stdarg.3
charmap.5
bootparam.7
ipv6.7
man.7
path_resolution.7
uri.7
nscd.8
mtk
Corrected minor spelling/wording mistakes (i.e., changes
independent of fixes for American spelling).
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.60 ====================
Released: 2007-06-25
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
Wrapped lines in some files.
Various pages
mtk
Change "e.g. " to "e.g., ", or in some cases, "for example, ".
Various pages
mtk
Change "i.e. " to i.e., ", or in some cases, "that is, ".
Various pages
mtk
Removed AUTHORS section.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
vfork.2
mtk
s/w.r.t/with respect to/
man-pages.7
mtk
Strengthened warning against use of AUTHORS section.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.61 ====================
Released: 2007-07-01
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Florian Ernst <florian_ernst@gmx.net>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroeder@computer.org>
Joey (Martin) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
Michael Gehring <mg@ebfe.org>
Serge van den Boom <svdb@stack.nl>
Stefan Puiu <stefanpuiuro@yahoo.com>
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
substitute `\\0' by '\\0'.
Various pages
mtk
s/`/'/ when the thing being quoted is a character.
accept.2
bind.2
connect.2
getsockopt.2
listen.2
socket.2
socketpair.2
mtk after a note by Martin (Joey) Schulze
Add NOTES paragraph noting that <sys/types.h> isn't required by
POSIX.1-2001 or Linux, but was required on some implementations.
accept.2
getsockname.2
recv.2
vm86.2
send.2
getgrouplist.3
memmem.3
nsswitch.conf.5
putenv.3
wprintf.3
mtk
Replace form `...' with \fI...\fP where the enclosed string
is a pathname, type name, or argument name.
A few files
mtk
s/process' /process's/
gets.3
qsort.3
getaddrinfo.3
rpc.3
ungetwc.3
wcsnrtombs.3
capabilities.7
mtk
Add section number to page cross references.
time.1
bind.2
pivot_root.2
sysctl.2
mtk
Reordered .SH sections.
full.4
mouse.4
random.4
sd.4
mtk
Made CONFIG/CONFIGURING heading ==> CONFIGURATION
time.1
console_codes.4
random.4
sk98lin.4
charmap.5
ftpusers.5
bootparam.7
charsets.7
glob.7
mq_overview.7
unicode.7
uri.7
utf-8.7
mtk
Reformatted headings
New pages
---------
backtrace.3
mtk, with input from Justin Pryzby and Stefan Puiu
Documents backtrace(), backtrace_symbols(), and
backtrace_symbols_fd().
New links
---------
backtrace_symbols.3
backtrace_symbols_fd.3
mtk
Links to backtrace.3.
__clone.2
Stepan Kasal
Link to clone.2.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
Makefile
Serge van den Boom
Fix setting of 'prefix' macro.
eval.1p
Benno Schulenberg
Fix bad text (concatenated line).
chdir.2
mtk
Fixed description of EACCES error.
Added sentence defining "current working directory".
Other minor wording changes.
cfree.3
mtk
Added SEE ALSO section.
clone.2
mtk
s/clone2/__clone2/.
fdatasync.2
mtk
Minor wording changes.
fork.2
Alain Portal
Fix small wording error.
gethostid.2
Stefan Puiu / mtk
Add NOTES on what happens if gethostid() can't open /etc/hostid.
idle.2
mtk
Made NOTES text into a VERSIONS section, since that's what it
really describes.
ioperm.2
mtk
Minor wording changes.
intro.2
mtk
Rewrite to reflect the fact that the _syscallN
macros are no longer available.
io_cancel.2
mtk
Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
io_destroy.2
mtk
Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
io_getevents.2
mtk
Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
io_setup.2
mtk
Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
io_submit.2
Ivana Varekova
Fix include in SYNOPSIS.
mtk
Add "Link with -laio" to SYNOPSIS.
ipc.2
mtk
Add semtimedop() to SEE ALSO.
Note that some architectures don't have ipc(2); instead
real system calls are provided for shmctl(), semctl(), etc.
killpg.2
mtk
Minor wording changes.
listen.2
mtk
Added <sys/types.h> to SYNOPSIS.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk
Add NOTES para about permissions required to call
sched_setscheduler() on other systems.
select.2
mtk
Noted that 'timeout' can also be changed if select() is
interrupted by a signal.
setup.2
mtk
Remove reference to _syscall0() macro.
shmop.2
mtk
Changed text for EINVAL error.
socketcall.2
mtk
Add recvmsg() and sendmsg() to SEE ALSO.
Note that some architectures don't have socketcall(2); instead
real system calls are provided for socket(), bind(), etc.
swapon.2
Ivana Varekova / mtk
Update text for EPERM error describing the maximum number of
swap files. (From downstream Fedora patch.)
write.2
mtk
Added details about seekable files and file offset.
Noted that write() may write less than 'count' bytes, and
gave some examples of why this might occur.
Noted what happens if write() is interrupted by a signal.
Minor wording changes.
__setfpucw.3
mtk
Added a CONFORMING TO section; other minor edits.
confstr.3
mtk
Minor rewrites in code example.
ctime.3
Justin Pryzby
Make SEE ALSO refer to timegm.3
daemon.3
mtk
Small wording change.
dl_iterate_phdr.3
Michael Gehring
Comment was missing closing "*/".
dlopen.3
mtk
Formatting changes, and minor rewordings.
mtk, after a note by Serge van den Boom
Add a comment explaining the need for the rather
strange cast of the return value of dlsym().
fpclassify.3
mtk
Add "isinf" to NAME section.
getgrouplist.3
mtk
Minor rewording.
getline.3
mtk
Minor rewording, and note that '*n* is ignored
if '*lineptr' is NULL.
malloc.3
Ivana Varekova / mtk
Update description of MALLOC_CHECK_ to include description
for value 3. (From downstream Fedora patch.)
netlink.3
mtk
Added a CONFORMING TO section; other minor edits.
openpty.3
mtk
Minor changes to SYNOPSIS.
program_invocation_name.3
mtk
Shortened page title to INVOCATION_NAME.
rtnetlink.3
mtk
Added a CONFORMING TO section; other minor edits.
scanf.3
Florian Ernst
Fix duplicated word "the".
(Really fix http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=412467 !)
select_tut.3
mtk
Small wording change.
setnetgrent.3
mtk
Added a CONFORMING TO section.
sigpause.3
mtk
Added a CONFORMING TO section.
strftime.3
Just Pryzby
Small wording fix.
mtk
Note use of "gcc -Wno-format-y2k" to avoid the "`%c' yields only
last 2 digits of year in some locales" warning.
strstr.3
mtk
Add "strcasestr" to NAME section.
syslog.3
mtk
Small wording change.
termios.3
mtk
Reformat SYNOPSIS.
Added a CONFORMING TO section.
timegm.3
mtk
Small wording changes.
ulimit.3
mtk
Remove erroneous text saying that glibc does not provide
<ulimit.h>; it does.
initrd.4
mtk
Various reformattings.
core.5
mtk
Added a sentence noting why core dumps named "core.PID" were useful
with LinuxThreads.
bootparam.7
mtk
Fix capitalization in .SS headings.
epoll.7
mtk
Language clean ups.
feature_test_macros.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO section.
mq_overview.7
mtk
Reformatted headings; minor rewrites.
sem_overview.7
mtk
Reformatted headings; minor rewrites.
socket.7
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
Document argument type for SO_REUSEADDR.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255881
uri.7
mtk
Wrap long line in SYNOPSIS.
ldconfig.8
mtk
Added SEE ALSO section.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.62 ====================
Released: 2007-07-09
This release consists solely of formatting fixes. There are no changes
to content.
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Many many pages
mtk
Many many formatting fixes.
man[013]p/*
Stepan Kasal
Add section number to .TH line for POSIX pages in man[013]p.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.63 ====================
Released: 2007-07-16
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Eduardo M. Fleury <efleury@br.ibm.com>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Marc Boyer <marc.boyer@enseeiht.fr>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Martin Röhricht <martin@roehricht.info>
Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
gettimeofday.2
madvise.2
msgctl.2
select.2
semctl.2
shmctl.2
syslog.2
stat.2
a64l.3
printf.3
termios.3
xdr.3
sd.4
mtk
Minor wording changes.
obsolete.2
syscall.2
unimplemented.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO reference to syscalls.2.
New pages
---------
sgetmask.2
mtk
A real man page for sgetmask(2) and ssetmask(2).
(This page replaces a previous link of the same name, which
linked to signal.2.)
spu_create.2
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU spu_create() system call.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
spu_run.2
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU spu_run() system call.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
spufs.7
Arnd Bergmann with additional work by Eduardo M. Fleury and mtk
Document the PowerPC SPU file system.
(Originally taken from the kernel source file
Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt.)
Removed Pages
-------------
__clone.2
mtk
This file was created by accident in 2.61, as a copy of clone.2.
(it should have been a link to clone.2.)
obsolete.2
mtk
Details on this page are covered in syscalls.2 and in
respective syscall man pages (stat.2, uname.2).
undocumented.2
mtk
This page is very out of date, and in any case difficult
to maintain. Information about undocumented system calls
is maintained in the HOWTOHELP file, and probably in other
places soon.
killpg.3
mtk
This rather incomplete page seems unnecessary since there
is a killpg.2.
New links
---------
chown32.2
fchown32.2
getegid32.2
geteuid32.2
getgid32.2
getgroups32.2
getresgid32.2
getresuid32.2
getuid32.2
lchown32.2
setfsgid32.2
setfsuid32.2
setgid32.2
setgroups32.2
setregid32.2
setresgid32.2
setresuid32.2
setreuid32.2
setuid32.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "32".
fcntl64.2
fstat64.2
fstatat64.2
fstatfs64.2
ftruncate64.2
getdents64.2
lstat64.2
pread64.2
pwrite64.2
sendfile64.2
stat64.2
statfs64.2
truncate64.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "64".
__clone2.2
clone2.2
mtk
Links to clone.2.
ugetrlimit.2
mtk
Link to getrlimit.2.
mq_notify.2
mq_open.2
mq_timedreceive.2
mq_timedsend.2
mq_unlink.2
mtk
Added as links to corresponding section 3 pages.
fadvise64.2
fadvise64_64.2
mtk
Links to posix_fadvise.2.
rt_sigaction.2
rt_sigpending.2
rt_sigprocmask.2
rt_sigtimedwait.2
mtk
Added as link to corresponding page without "rt_" prefix.
rt_sigqueueinfo.2
mtk
Link to sigqueue.2.
madvise1.2
tuxcall.2
vserver.2
mtk / Ivana Varekova
Link to unimplemented.2.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
mtk
Fairly substantial rewrites of various parts,
and a few additions.
chmod.2
mtk
Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) needs
either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
chown.2
mtk
Update SYNOPSIS to reflect the fact that fchmod(2) and lchown(2)
need either "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500" or "#define _BSD_SOURCE".
Added an example program.
killpg.2
mtk
Note that killpg() is actually a library function on Linux.
mmap.2
mtk
Added note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays invokes mmap2().
mmap2.2
Ivana Varekova / mtk
On most platforms the unit for 'offset' is 4096 bytes, not
the system page size.
mtk
Rewrote NOTES to note that glibc mmap() wrapper nowadays
invokes this system call.
mtk
Added an EXAMPLE program.
oldfstat.2
oldlstat.2
oldstat.2
mtk
Changed link to point to stat.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
olduname.2
oldolduname.2
mtk
Changed link to point to uname.2 (instead of obsolete.2).
sched_setaffinity.2
Martin Röhricht
Added _GNU_SOURCE to SYNOPSIS.
semctl.2
mtk
Remove reference discussion of ipc(2), since none of the
other System V IPC pages mention ipc(2).
semop.2
mtk
Add an example code segment.
shmctl.2
mtk
Add svipc(7) to SEE ALSO list.
sigaction.2
mtk
Reformatted tables as lists; other minor reformattings and
wording changes.
sigqueue.2
mtk
Added info on rt_sigqueueinfo(2).
sigwaitinfo.2
mtk
Noted that sigwaitinfo() is a library function implemented on
top of sigtimedwait().
ssetmask.2
mtk
Make this link point to new sgetmask.2 instead of signal.2.
stat.2
mtk
Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
have appeared over time.
syscalls.2
mtk
A fairly substantial rewrite of this page,
bringing it up to date with the current
kernel version, and listing all system calls
in tabular form.
uname.2
mtk
Add notes on the different system call interfaces that
have appeared over time.
unimplemented.2
mtk
Add vserver, madvise1 to NAME line.
Removed SEE ALSO reference to obsolete.2.
Ivana Varekova
Add tuxcall to NAME line.
mktemp.3
Patrick Mansfield
Fix description of return value.
strcat.3
Marc Boyer
Minor fix to example program.
undocumented.3
mtk
Add section numbers to function names; remove some functions
since they are documented.
proc.5
mtk
Update/correct text on /proc/malloc.
mtk, after a note by Pierre Habouzit, and a few comments by Justin Pryzby
Update description of /proc/PID/stat to match 2.6.21.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417933
inotify.7
mtk
IN_DONT_FOLLOW and IN_ONLYDIR are only available from 2.6.15.
signal.7
Stepan Kasal / mtk
Note SIGRTMIN value depends on glibc.
mtk
Various rewrites and additions to the text in real-time signals.
Add SEE ALSO reference to sgetmask.2.
svipc.7
mtk
Add ipc(2) to SEE ALSO.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.64 ====================
Released: 2007-07-27
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Aleksandr Koltsoff <czr@iki.fi>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
INFINITY.3
_exit.2
a64l.3
abs.3
acct.2
acosh.3
addseverity.3
adjtime.3
asinh.3
atanh.3
atoi.3
brk.2
cbrt.3
cfree.3
chdir.2
chmod.2
chown.2
clearenv.3
clock_getres.3
clone.2
confstr.3
copysign.3
ctermid.3
ctime.3
daemon.3
dirfd.3
div.3
drand48.3
drand48_r.3
dysize.3
ecvt.3
ecvt_r.3
erf.3
euidaccess.3
exp2.3
expm1.3
fdatasync.2
ferror.3
fexecve.3
fgetgrent.3
fgetpwent.3
finite.3
flockfile.3
fopen.3
fpclassify.3
fsync.2
futimes.3
fwide.3
gamma.3
gcvt.3
getcwd.3
getdate.3
getdirentries.3
getdomainname.2
getdtablesize.2
getgrent.3
getgrent_r.3
getgrouplist.3
getgroups.2
gethostbyname.3
gethostid.2
gethostname.2
getlogin.3
getmntent.3
getpagesize.2
getpw.3
getpwent.3
getpwent_r.3
getpwnam.3
getsid.2
getspnam.3
gettimeofday.2
getumask.3
getusershell.3
gsignal.3
hypot.3
inet.3
initgroups.3
insque.3
isalpha.3
iswblank.3
j0.3
kill.2
killpg.2
lgamma.3
lockf.3
log1p.3
log2.3
logb.3
longjmp.3
lrint.3
lround.3
madvise.2
mbsnrtowcs.3
memfrob.3
mincore.2
mkdtemp.3
mknod.2
mkstemp.3
mktemp.3
nan.3
nanosleep.2
nextafter.3
nice.2
on_exit.3
perror.3
posix_memalign.3
posix_openpt.3
printf.3
profil.3
psignal.3
putenv.3
putpwent.3
qecvt.3
rand.3
random.3
rcmd.3
readahead.2
readlink.2
realpath.3
remainder.3
remquo.3
rexec.3
rint.3
round.3
rpmatch.3
scalb.3
scandir.3
scanf.3
seekdir.3
select.2
sem_wait.3
semop.2
setbuf.3
setenv.3
seteuid.2
setjmp.3
setnetgrent.3
setpgid.2
setresuid.2
setreuid.2
sigaltstack.2
siginterrupt.3
significand.3
sigqueue.2
sigvec.3
sigwaitinfo.2
sockatmark.3
stat.2
stime.2
strdup.3
strerror.3
strsep.3
strtod.3
strtok.3
strtol.3
strtoul.3
symlink.2
sync.2
syscall.2
syslog.3
tcgetsid.3
telldir.3
tempnam.3
termios.3
tgamma.3
timegm.3
toascii.3
trunc.3
truncate.2
ttyslot.3
tzset.3
ualarm.3
unlocked_stdio.3
unshare.2
usleep.3
vfork.2
vhangup.2
wait.2
wait4.2
wcscasecmp.3
wcsncasecmp.3
wcsnlen.3
wcsnrtombs.3
wcswidth.3
wordexp.3
wprintf.3
mtk
Added/updated feature test macro requirements for
glibc; see feature_test_macros.7 for details.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
mq_notify.2
mq_open.2
mq_timedreceive.2
mq_timedsend.2
mq_unlink.2
mtk
Fix broken link
setpgid.2
mtk
Fairly substantial changes and corrections, including adding
coverage of all of the interfaces that get/set PGIDs.
syscalls.2
mtk / aeb
Various rewordings; clear up some imprecisions.
lgamma.3
mtk
Added 'signgam' to SYNOPSIS and NAME line.
strerror.3
mtk
Note that the XPG version is provided since glibc 2.3.4.
The page formerly said that the GNU-specific version
is provided by default. That certainly isn't true
nowadays, since _POSIX_C_SOURCE is set to 200112L by
default, so that the XSI-compliant version is supplied
by default.
man-pages.7
mtk
Added note pointing to feature_test_macros.7 for a description
of how feature test macro requirements should be specified in
manual pages. Various other minor fixes and changes.
feature_test_macros.7
mtk
Added note about how feature test macros are specified
in manual pages.
Many other corrections, improvements, additions, and
details about differences across glibc versions.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.65 ====================
Released: 2007-09-17
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Aleksandr Koltsoff <czr@iki.fi>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Ari Entlich <lmage11@twcny.rr.com>
Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org>
François Diakhate <diakhate@enseirb.fr>
Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
Jon Burgess <jburgess777@googlemail.com>
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Nicolas George <nicolas.george@ens.fr>
Paul Brook <paul@nowt.org>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
Various pages
mtk
Use 'glibc' consistently to refer to GNU C library.
Various pages
mtk
Order errors under ERRORS alphabetically.
Various pages
Nicolas François
Spelling and formatting fixes, as per
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439560
intro.2
select.2
fmtmsg.3
getgrent_r.3
envz_add.3
rtime.3
strptime.3
wordexp.3
Maxime Vaudequin
Add "#include <stdlib.h>" (to declare exit(3)) to example program.
New pages
---------
timeradd.3
mtk
Description of timeradd(), timersub(), timerclear(),
timerisset(), timercmp() macros for operating on
struct timeval.
Removed pages
-------------
fdatasync.2
mtk
Somehow, over time, material on fdatasync(2) crept into
fsync.2, and fdatasync also got added to the NAME section
of fsync.2. All of the material in fdatasync.2 that was
not already in fsync.2 has now been moved there, and
the former page has been removed.
In place of the content there, is now a link to fsync.2.
New links
---------
clock_getres.2
clock_gettime.2
clock_settime.2
mtk
Link to man3/clock_getres.3.
fdatasync.2
mtk
Link to fsync.2.
fdopendir.3
mtk
Link to opendir.3.
gethostbyaddr_r.3
Mats Wichmann
Link to gethostbyaddr.3.
timerclear.3
timercmp.3
timerisset.3
timersub.3
mtk
Links to new timeradd.3.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
Makefile
Mike Frysinger
Make the install target of man-pages respect the standard
"DESTDIR" variable as well as check the exit status of the
install command so errors aren't ignored.
get_mempolicy.2
Lee Schermerhorn
changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" through out the
descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
added requirement to link '-lnuma' to synopsis
rewrite portions of description for clarification.
added all errors currently returned by sys call.
removed cautionary note that use of MPOL_F_NODE|MPOL_F_ADDR
is not supported. This is no longer true.
added mmap(2) to SEE ALSO list.
getitimer.2
mtk
Since kernel 2.6.22, Linux setitimer() now conforms to POSIX.1,
giving an EINVAL error for a non-canonical tv_usec value.
gettimeofday.2
mtk
Replace discussion of timer* macros with a pointer
to new page timeradd.3.
ioctl_list.2
Nicolas George
Fixed argument type for BLKGETSIZE.
mbind.2
Lee Schermerhorn
changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" throughout the
descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
rewrite portions of description for clarification.
clarify interaction of policy with mmap()'d files and shared
memory regions, including SHM_HUGE regions.
defined how "empty set of nodes" specified and what this
means for MPOL_PREFERRED.
mention what happens if local/target node contains no
free memory.
clarify semantics of multiple nodes to BIND policy.
Note: subject to change. We'll fix the man pages when/if
this happens.
added all errors currently returned by sys call.
added mmap(2), shmget(2), shmat(2) to SEE ALSO list.
mmap.2
mprotect.2
François Diakhate
Add text noting that PROT_WRITE may (and on x86 does)
imply PROT_READ.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=441387
nfsservctl.2
Aleksandr Koltsoff
Fix prototype.
oldfstat.2
oldlstat.2
oldstat.2
mtk
Fix broken link
prctl.2
mtk
Update arches/kernel versions for PR_SET_UNALAIGN / PR_GET_UNALIGN.
readahead.2
mtk
Removed SEE ALSO reference to nonexistent fadvise.2.
reboot.2
mtk
Place SYNOPSIS comments inside C comments (/* ... */).
sched_setaffinity.2
Samuel Thibault
Note what thread is affected if 'pid' is specified
as 0, or as the value returned by getpid().
sched_setscheduler.2
Carsten Emde
Add text on real-time features of mainline Linux kernel.
select_tut.2
mtk
sync SYNOPSIS with select.2
set_mempolicy.2
Lee Schermerhorn
changed the "policy" parameter to "mode" throughout the
descriptions in an attempt to promote the concept that the memory
policy is a tuple consisting of a mode and optional set of nodes.
added requirement to link '-lnuma' to synopsis
rewrite portions of description for clarification.
clarify interaction of policy with mmap()'d files.
defined how "empty set of nodes" specified and what this
means for MPOL_PREFERRED.
mention what happens if local/target node contains no
free memory.
clarify semantics of multiple nodes to BIND policy.
Note: subject to change. We'll fix the man pages when/if
this happens.
added all errors currently returned by sys call.
added mmap(2) to SEE ALSO list.
sigaction.2
mtk
s/si_sign/si_errno/ in statement about which field is unused.
Ari Entlich
s/SIGILL/SIGCHLD/ for paragraph describing SIGCHLD.
stat.2
mtk
Improve text describing underlying system calls.
swapon.2
Michael Prokop
EINVAL also occurs if target path is on tmpfs or similar.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435885
sync.2
mtk
Incorporated material from now deleted fdatasync.2.
syscall.2
mtk
Small fix in example program.
uname.2
mtk
Improve text describing underlying system calls.
utime.2
Vincent Lefevre / mtk
Clarify utimes() behaviour when 'times' is NULL.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=431480
mtk
Other minor clarifications of description of utimes().
copysign.3
Vincent Lefevre
s/sign/sign bit/ to remove ambiguity in description.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435415
euidaccess.3
mtk
Changed NOTES to VERSIONS.
ffsl.3
mtk
Add ffsl and ffsll to NAME line.
fts.3
mtk
Removed statement that fts functions are expected to appear
soon in POSIX; it's years old and has not yet come to pass.
ftw.3
mtk / Geoff Clare
Fixes/improvements for example program.
getdate.3
mtk
Add getdate_r to NAME section.
getaddrinfo.3
mtk / Geoff Clare
Fixes/improvements for example program.
gethostbyaddr.3
Mats Wichmann
Add documentation for gethostbyaddr_r().
Plus a few other small fixes.
gethostbyname.3
mtk
Add gethostbyname2, gethostbyname2_r, gethostbyname_r,
gethostent_r to NAME line.
getmntent.3
mtk
Fix misnamed function references.
getopt.3
Jon Burgess
Fix small error in example program.
getrpcent.3
mtk
Add setrpcent and endrpcent to NAME line.
gsignal.3
Aleksandr Koltsoff
Fix gsignal() prototype.
hsearch.3
mtk
Add hcreate_r, hdestroy_r, hsearch_r to NAME line.
inet.3
Maxime Bizon
Correct definition of "struct in_addr".
isatty.3
mtk
Minor wording fix.
isgreater.3
mtk
Add islessequal to NAME line.
lgamma.3
Vincent Lefevre
Fix CONFORMING TO section.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=417592
log1p.3
mtk
Add log1pf and log1pl to NAME line.
longjmp.3
Paul Brook / mtk
After a call to longjmp(), the values of modified, non-volatile
variables in the function that called setjmp() are unspecified.
makecontext.3
Aleksandr Koltsoff
Fix makecontext() prototype.
malloc.3
mtk / Tolga Dalman
Explain what happens for malloc(0), or calloc() where one of the
arguments is 0.
mtk
Added notes on malloc()'s use of sbrk() and mmap().
mtk
Add mmap(2), alloca(3) to SEE ALSO.
mq_close.3
mq_getattr.3
mq_notify.3
mq_open.3
mq_receive.3
mq_send.3
mq_unlink.3
mtk
Add "Link with -lrt." to SYNOPSIS.
opendir.3
Ulrich Drepper; some edits and additional text by mtk
Document fdopendir().
readdir.3
mtk, after a note by Andi Kleen
Document DT_* constants for d_type.
Ulrich Drepper / mtk
Rework discussion of non-standard structure fields.
sem_wait.3
mtk
Minor improvements to example program.
syslog.3
mtk
Add vsyslog to NAME section.
termios.3
Nicolas François
Fix XCASE feature test macro description.
wcsspn.3
Aleksandr Koltsoff
Add return type to prototype.
proc.5
mtk
Improve description of num_threads field under /proc/PID/stat.
Maxime Vaudequin
Fix path error (s%proc/sys%proc/sys/kernel%) in mentions of
/proc/sys/ostype, /proc/sys/osrelease and proc/sys/version.
Maxime Vaudequin
I noticed things to correct and to clarify in subsection
"/proc/filesystems" of proc.5:
- clarify filesystems listing: not only FS compiled
into the kernel, also FS kernel modules currently loaded
- add a reference to fs(5)
- add an explanation for FS marked with "nodev"
- s/mount(1)/mount(8)/, also corrected in section "SEE ALSO"
- clarify usage by mount: the current wording may lead to
think /proc/filesystems is always used by mount when no FS
is specified. So, usage of "may" which IMHO is more
appropriate + additional explanations
In mount(8) we can see:
If no -t option is given, or if the auto type is
specified, mount will try to guess the desired type.
If mount was compiled with the blkid library, the
guessing is done by this library. Otherwise, mount
guesses itself by probing the superblock; if that
does not turn up anything that looks familiar,
mount will try to read the file /etc/filesystems,
or, if that does not exist, /proc/filesystems.
All of the filesystem types listed there will be
tried, except for those that are labeled "nodev"
(e.g., devpts, proc and nfs). If /etc/filesystems
ends in a line with a single * only, mount will
read /proc/filesystems afterwards.
Samuel Thibault
Since linux 2.6.11, /proc/stat has an eighth value for cpu
lines: stolen time, which is the time spent in other operating
systems when running in a virtualized environment.
arp.7
Updated BUGS text referring to jiffies; refer to time.7 instead.
credentials.7
mtk
Add words to note that file system ID is Linux specific.
hier.7
Maxime Vaudequin
This is some corrections for hier.7:
- missing period for /media and /mnt
- /mnt description is not totally correct, it is true for some
distributions but in others /mnt is used as a temporary FS
mount point, as it is specified by FHS:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MNTMOUNTPOINTFORATEMPORARILYMOUNT
- s/X-Windows/X-Window/ (3 occurrences)
- section "SEE ALSO": s/mount(1)/mount(8)/
man-pages.7
man.7
mdoc.7
mdoc.samples.7
mtk / Nicolas François
Nowadays tmac.XXX are called XXX.tmac.
pthreads.7
mtk
Update text about modern threading implementations
(NPTL vs LinuxThreads).
socket.7
mtk, after a note by Andi Kleen
Clarify that SO_SNDTIMEO and SO_RCVTIMEO only have effect for
socket I/O calls; not for multiplexing system calls like
select() and poll().
time.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO reference to new timeradd.3.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.66 ====================
Released: 2007-10-01
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Amit K. Arora <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Ollie Wild <aaw@google.com>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
places.
New pages
---------
fallocate.2
David Chinner, with some input from Amit Amora and mtk
Describes the fallocate() system call, new in 2.6.23.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
close.2
Fredrik Noring
Add text cautioning about use of close() in
multithreaded programs.
execve.2
Ollie Wild / mtk
Add text describing limit on total size of argv + envp,
and changes that occurred with 2.6.23.
mtk
Add getopt(3) to SEE ALSO list.
open.2
mtk, Acked by Ulrich Drepper
Added description of O_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23) + other
minor fixes for O_DIRECT.
recv.2
mtk
Added description of MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC (new in 2.6.23).
sysctl.2
mtk
Strengthened the warning against using this system call
and note that it may disappear in a future kernel version.
rpc.3
Mats Wichmann
Fix type definition for 'protocol' in prototypes of pmap_set()
and pmap_getport().
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.67 ====================
Released: 2007-10-08
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Andrew Josey <a.josey@opengroup.org>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
*.1p
*.3p
mtk, after a note by Andi Kleen and consultation with Andrew Josey.
Add a PROLOG section:
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.
The Linux implementation of this interface may differ
(consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details
of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented
on Linux.
*.0p
*.1p
*.3p
mtk
Some formatting fixes, mostly to get rid of unwanted
spaces before "," in formatted output.
*
*/*
mtk
Change all occurrences of my email address in man-pages source
to my new gmail address.
Many many pages
Maxime Vaudequin
I noticed useless use of macros with alternating formatting
(".IR" instead ".I" which suffices, ".BR" instead ".B", etc.)
because there is only one element. For example in ldconfig.8:
-.BR /sbin/ldconfig
+.B /sbin/ldconfig
This is not very important, it only makes the sources more tidy.
To find these I used:
egrep '^\.(B[RI]|R[IB]|I[RB]) ([^ ]+|\"[^\"]\+\")$'
And if you want to make these changes, you can use:
sed 's/^\(\.[BRI]\)[BRI]\( \([^ ]\+\|\"[^\"]\+\"\)\)$/\1\2/g'
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.68 ====================
Released: 2007-11-19
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
A. Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
Andrew McDonald <andrew@mcdonald.org.uk>
Geoff Clare <gclare@gclare.org.uk>
Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
Hyokyong Kim <hyokyong@ppj.kr>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Justin Pryzby <jpryzby+d@quoininc.com>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
fchownat.2
fstatat.2
futimesat.2
linkat.2
mkdirat.2
mknodat.2
readlinkat.2
renameat.2
symlinkat.2
mkfifoat.3
mtk, after http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445436
by Timo Juhani Lindfors
Added <fcntl.h> to SYNOPSIS.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
New pages
---------
_syscall.2
mtk
Created as a new page, by taking the content specific to
the _syscall() macros from intro(2).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
README
mtk
Brought up to date.
man-pages-*-Announce
mtk
Brought the info in here up to date.
intro.1
mtk
Added intro paragraph about section, plus a paragraph
about exit status values.
Move "user intro" text to NOTES.
get_mempolicy.2
mtk
Reorder ERRORS sections alphabetically
intro.2
mtk
Pretty much a complete rewrite, covering some additional topics.
Moved _syscallN() material to new _syscall(2) page.
mbind.2
mtk
Reorder ERRORS sections alphabetically
mmap.2
Maxime Vaudequin
Fix syntax error in example program.
prctl.2
mtk
Linux 2.6.22 added support on Alpha for PR_SET_UNALIGN.
ptrace.2
Nicolas François / mtk
s/PTRACE_POKEUSR/PTRACE_POKEUSER/
s/PTRACE_PEEKUSR/PTRACE_PEEKUSER/
read.2
mtk / Geoff Clare
Add text describing timerfd EINVAL error for read(2).
set_mempolicy.2
mtk
Reorder ERRORS sections alphabetically
syscall.2
mtk
Added _syscall(2) and intro(2) to SEE ALSO section.
syscalls.2
mtk
Added fallocate(2); removed timerfd(2).
sysinfo.2
mtk
Removed reference to example in intro(2).
dlopen.3
mtk
Added "Link with -ldl." to SYNOPSIS.
getaddrinfo.3
Ulrich Drepper / mtk
Remove references to getipnodebyname.3 and getipnodebyaddr.3.
gethostbyname.3
mtk / Ulrich Drepper
Remove SEE ALSO references to getipnodebyname.3 and
getipnodebyaddr.3.
Pádraig Brady / mtk / Ulrich Drepper
Point out that the functions described on this page
are made obsolete by getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3).
getipnodebyname.3
mtk
Clarify that glibc does not implement these functions.
glob.3
Ulrich Drepper / mtk
Fix description of GLOB_ONLYDIR.
mtk
Added description of GLOB_TILDE_NOMATCH.
Expanded the description of various flags.
Various wording fixes..
intro.3
mtk
Pretty much a complete rewrite, covering some additional topics.
posix_fallocate.3
mtk
Add SEE ALSO referring to fallocate.2.
rpc.3
Sam Varshavchik
Add some arg declarations to prototypes; fix typos.
setbuf.3
Mike Frysinger
Fix text in BUGS section.
sigset.3
mtk
The sigset() bugs were fixed in glibc 2.5.
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1951
intro.4
mtk
Minor rewrites.
st.4
Maxime Vaudequin
Various small corrections, formattings and modifications.
elf.5
Mike Frysinger
Document:
- new p_flag: PT_GNU_STACK
- new sections: .gnu.version .gnu.version_d .gnu.version_r
.note.GNU-stack
- new structures: ElfN_Verdef ElfN_Verdaux ElfN_Verneed
ElfN_Vernaux
intro.5
mtk
Minor rewrites.
proc.5
Ivana Varekova / mtk
Add text noting that since kernel 2.6.16, /proc/slabinfo is
only available if CONFIG_SLAB is enabled.
Maxime Vaudequin
Update description of /proc/pci.
Maxime Vaudequin
Give italic formatting to file names in proc.5.
mtk
The display type of the /proc/PID/stat fields changed
%lu to %u in Linux 2.6.22:
flags
rt_priority
policy
slabinfo.5
Ivana Varekova / mtk
Add text noting that since kernel 2.6.16, /proc/slabinfo is
only available if CONFIG_SLAB is enabled.
intro.6
mtk
Minor rewrites.
bootparam.7
Maxime Vaudequin
Update references to files in kernel "Documentation" directory.
intro.7
mtk
Minor rewrites.
ipv6.7
Andrew McDonald
Fix description of IPV6_ROUTER_ALERT option.
standards.7
mtk
Note online location of C99 standard.
intro.8
mtk
Some rewrites, plus new paragraph on exit status values.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.69 ====================
Released: 2007-12-03
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Luke Browning <lukebr@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
*.[013]p
mtk
Many whitespace clean-ups in formatted output.
mprotect.2
bind.2
mq_notify.3
makecontext.3
fmemopen.3
David Härdeman / mtk
Rename error handling function in example program
(s/die/handle_error/).
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Removed pages
-------------
HOWTOHELP
MAINTAINING
mtk
The content of these files is now available in HTML format.
New links
---------
cfsetspeed.3
mtk
Link to termios.3.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
time.1
Alain Portal
Added "Linux User's Manual" to .TH line.
_syscall.2
aeb / mtk
Remove outdated text about pointer blocks for syscalls that have
more than 5 arguments.
fcntl.2
J. Bruce Fields
Add warning that mandatory locking is unreliable.
J. Bruce Fields
Clarify details in description of file leases.
J. Bruce Fields / mtk
Minor wording edits.
J. Bruce Fields
Add F_GETLEASE under RETURN VALUE.
mmap.2
mtk
Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.
sched_setscheduler.2
Mats Wichmann
Add BUGS text noting that the return value from Linux
sched_setschuler() does not conform to POSIX.
spu_create.2
Jeremy Kerr
Various updates and improvements.
Luke Browning
Refinement of text describing a "gang".
mtk
Minor edits.
spu_run.2
Jeremy Kerr
Various updates and improvements.
mtk
Minor edits.
err.3
mtk
Remove HISTORY section.
fopen.3
Mike Frysinger
Document 'e' (close-on-exec) option, new in glibc 2.7.
getloadavg.3
Alain Portal / mtk
Remove HISTORY section.
printf.3
Andries E. Brouwer / mtk
Fix the discussion of stdarg macros in the description of
vprintf() description.
sem_wait.3
mtk
Handle errors using a custom handle_error() macro.
sigsetops.3
Mats Wichmann
Note that sigset_t objects must be initialized
with sigemptyset() or sigfillset() before the other
macros are employed.
termios.3
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Added cfsetspeed() to SYNOPSIS. Added text under CONFORMING TO
noting that cfsetspeed() is BSD specific.
ttyslot.3
Alain Portal
Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
that is the manual page more likely to be found on current
systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.)
initrd.4
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Move "Configuration" section to top of page (like other
section 4 pages) and make it a .SH section.
full.4
mtk
Re-ordered CONFIGURATION section to go before DESCRIPTION.
sk98lin.4
Maxime Vaudequin
Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.
elf.5
mtk
Renamed HISTORY section to NOTES, and removed BSD specific info.
proc.5
Maxime Vaudequin
Mention grub(8) in same sentence as lilo(8).
Maxime Vaudequin
Improve description of /proc/sys/abi and
/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe.
utmp.5
Alain Portal
Various references to "getty" were changed to "mingetty", since
that is the manual page more likely to be found on current
systems. (Completes changes that were made in man-pages-2.44.)
iso_8859-2.7
Adam Borowski
Reverse the 2.68 change applied by mtk in response to
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445085
that replaced "Sorbian" with "Serbian".
(Sorbian is a language of 50000 people in Brandenburg.)
man-pages.7
mtk
Added CONFIGURATION to list of "standard" section names.
spufs.7
Jeremy Kerr
Various updates and improvements.
mtk
Minor edits.
tcp.7
Maxime Vaudequin
Fix reference to kernel Documentation file.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.70 ====================
Released: 2007-12-06
Global changes
--------------
Many pages
mtk
Remove section numbers for page references where the
reference refers to the page itself. (This stops man2html
producing links from a page back to itself.)
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
get_mempolicy.2
mtk
Add CONFORMING TO section.
io_getevents.2
mtk
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
mbind.2
mtk
Add CONFORMING TO section.
msgop.2
mtk
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entries.
sigprocmask.2
mtk
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
splice.2
mtk
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
Add SEE ALSO referring to vmsplice(2).
csin.3
mtk
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
Add SEE ALSO referring to ccos(3).
gethostbyname.3
mtk
Add gethostbyaddr_r to NAME section.
rint.3
mtk
Remove redundant SEE ALSO entry.
sigsetops.3
mtk
Minor rewording.
epoll.7
mtk
Minor rewording.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.71 ====================
Released: 2007-12-14
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
John Sigler <linux.kernel@free.fr>
Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
err.3
fts.3
getloadavg.3
queue.3
rcmd.3
rexec.3
stdin.3
elf.5
operator.7
mtk
Replaced the use of mdoc macros on these pages with man
macros. The only pages in man-pages that still use
mdoc macros are mdoc.7 and mdoc.samples.7.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Deleted pages
-------------
TODO
mtk
This information is now on the website.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
Changes.old
mtk
Reformat various change log entries to use a consistent format.
Expand Debian bug report numbers to be URLs.
Other minor tidy-ups.
fcntl.2
mtk
Document the F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC operation, which is
new in kernel 2.6.24.
listen.2
Josh Triplett
Fix incorrect path for somaxconn.
getpw.3
Alain PORTAL
Add ENOENT error to ERRORS.
sysconf.3
Mats Wichmann
Add documentation of _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN.
tty.4
John Sigler
Add tty_ioctl(4) to SEE ALSO list.
regex.7
Pascal MALAISE <malaise@magic.fr>
Separate text on back references from that describing basic regexps,
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=379829.
mtk
Remove crufty text about word boundaries.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.72 ====================
Released: 2007-12-14
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Alex Tuninga <atuninga@google.com>
Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Maxime Vaudequin <maxime.vaudequin@gmail.com>
Rob Weryk <rjweryk@uwo.ca>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Alain PORTAL / mtk
Format include files consistently (".I <.*\.h>").
Various pages
Alain PORTAL / mtk
Format pathname in italics (.I).
dbopen.3
mpool.3
recno.3
Alain PORTAL
Remove brackets ([]) around error names.
console.4
tty.4
ttyS.4
issue.5
ttytype.5
utmp.5
mtk / Maxime Vaudequin
Some systems have mingetty(8), others have agetty(8), so both
should be mentioned when we are talking about getty-style programs.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Renamed pages
-------------
filesystems.5
mtk / Alain PORTAL
Was previously fs.5
New links
---------
argz.3
Bert Wesarg / mtk
Link to argz_add.3.
envz.3
Bert Wesarg / mtk
Link to envz_add.3.
fs.5
mtk / Alain PORTAL
Link to filesystems.5.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
readahead.2
Rob Weryk
Fix declaration of 'offset' in SYNOPSIS.
seteuid.2
mtk
s/SETGUID/SETEUID/ in .TH line.
__setfpucw.3
mtk
Fixed include files references / formatting.
abort.3
mtk, after a note by Alex Tuninga
A fairly significant rewrite to clarify operation of abort().
argz_add.3
Bert Wesarg / mtk
s/envz/envz_add/ in SEE ALSO.
basename.3
mtk
s/DIRNAME/BASENAME/ in .TH line, and swap function names
in NAME section.
envz_add.3
Bert Wesarg / mtk
s/argz/argz_add/ in SEE ALSO.
flockfile.3
mtk
s/LOCKFILE/FLOCKFILE/ in .TH line.
getgrent_r.3
mtk
s/GETGRENT/GETGRENT_R/ in .TH line.
stdio.3
Sam Varshavchik
Reformat function list at end of page as a proper table.
ttyslot.3
Maxime Vaudequin
Revert earlier s/getty/mingetty/. This page talks about
historical behavior, and that means "getty(8)".
undocumented.3
mtk
Remove reference to "obstack stuff"; it's not clear what
that is about.
console_ioctl.4
mtk
s/CONSOLE_IOCTLS/CONSOLE_IOCTL/ in .TH line.
proc.5
mtk
s/fs (5)/filesystems (5)/
man-pages.7
mtk / Alain PORTAL
Improve discussion of formatting of file names.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.73 ====================
Released: 2007-12-14
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Alain PORTAL
Formatting fixes.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
mknod.2
mtk, after a report by Reuben Thomas
Clarify use of mkfifo() versus mknod().
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455825
fgetgrent.3
mtk
Small rewording.
fgetpwent.3
mtk
Small rewording.
rcmd.3
mtk
Noted feature test macro requirements.
BUGS: noted that iruserok() is not declared in glibc headers.
filesystems.5
mtk
Added Reiserfs, XFS, JFS to list of file systems.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.74 ====================
Released: 2007-12-20
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
David Brown <lkml@davidb.org>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Sam Morris <sam@robots.org.uk>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Alain PORTAL
Formatting fixes.
Various pages
mtk / Alain Portal
s/``...''/"..."/
Various pages
mtk
s/epoch/Epoch/
Various pages
mtk
Make the standard indent for code samples, shell session
logs, etc. to be ".in +4n".
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
_syscall.2
mtk
Nowadays there is _syscall6() also.
chroot.2
mtk
Various minor formatting changes.
epoll_wait.2
mtk
Fix types in structs.
Formatting fixes.
mount.2
mtk, after a note by Sam Morris
Clarify that MS_NODIRATIME provides a subset of the
functionality provided by MS_NOATIME.
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk
Minor rearrangement of text.
select_tut.2
mtk
Fix (my) typos in argument names.
Formatting fixes.
spu_create.2
Jeremy Kerr
We can use context FDs for the dirfd argument to the *at() syscalls.
times.2
mtk, after a note from David Brown and Andrew Morton
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119447727031225&w=2
Rework the text describing the return value to be closer
to the requirements of POSIX.1; move Linux details
to NOTES and add a warning not to rely on those details.
Add a warning about the -1 to -4095 bug which results
in a 41 second window where the glibc wrapper will wrongly
return -1 indicating an error.
mtk
Remove cruft HZ text.
Clarify text describing return value of clock(3).
getw.3
Mats Wichmann
CONFORMING TO: getw() and putw() were in SUSv2, but are not
in POSIX.1-2001.
hash.3
mtk / Alain Portal
Minor rewordings + formatting fixes.
st.4
Alain Portal / mtk
Many formatting fixes.
mtk
Place ERRORS in alphabetical order.
vcs.4
Samuel Thibault
Document VT_GETHIFONTMASK (new in 2.6.18) and add to example program;
attribute/text characters are in the host byte order.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456437
mtk
Minor edits.
bootparam.7
Alain PORTAL
Formatting fixes.
inotify.7
mtk
Minor heading changes and reformattings.
man-pages.7
mtk
Note that code segments, structure definitions, shell session
logs, should be indented by 4 spaces.
spufs.7
Jeremy Kerr
Add a little information about the differences to mbox.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.75 ====================
Released: 2008-01-08
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Justin Pryzby <jpryzby+d@quoinic.com>
Phil Endecott <spam_from_debian_bugs_4@chezphil.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
(Grammatical) hyphenation was fixed in many places.
epoll_wait.2
mbind.2
spu_run.2
ecvt.3
fmtmsg.3
getnameinfo.3
rtc.4
proc.5
charsets.7
ip.7
ipv6.7
raw.7
uri.7
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Fix incorrect usage of "a" and "an" before following vowel /
consonant, by reviewing the output of the following scripts:
for a in $(wc */*.? | awk '$1 > 10 {print $4}' | gv total); do
echo $a
MANWIDTH=4000 man -l $a 2>/dev/null |
egrep '(^| )an [^aeiou][a-z]'
done | less
for a in $(wc */*.? | awk '$1 > 10 {print $4}' | gv total); do
echo $a
MANWIDTH=4000 man -l $a 2>/dev/null |
egrep '(^| )a [aeiou][a-z]'
done| less
err.3
fts.3
queue.3
rcmd.3
rexec.3
stdin.3
elf.5
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Improve macros used in 2.71 to convert from "mdoc" to "man".
_exit.2
chroot.2
getgid.2
getpid.2
getrusage.2
getsid.2
gettid.2
getuid.2
iopl.2
kill.2
personality.2
pivot_root.2
ptrace.2
sched_setparam.2
sched_setscheduler.2
sched_yield.2
seteuid.2
setgid.2
setpgid.2
setresuid.2
setreuid.2
setuid.2
unlink.2
wait.2
openpty.3
raise.3
setlogmask.3
sleep.3
ttyslot.3
ulimit.3
tty.4
tty_ioctl.4
path_resolution.7
mtk
s/current process/calling process/
cacheflush.2
clone.2
fcntl.2
getitimer.2
getrlimit.2
mmap.2
mprotect.2
times.2
adjtime.3
byteorder.3
inet.3
offsetof.3
rtc.4
icmp.7
pipe.7
time.7
mtk
s/x86/i386/ since that is the name used in 'arch' directories
in the kernel source, and previously both i386 and x86 were both
used in man pages; also nowadays 'x86' is somewhat ambiguous,
since it is the name of the 'arch' directory for i386 and x86-64.
conj.3
cacos.3
cacosh.3
cabs.3
carg.3
casin.3
casinh.3
catan.3
catanh.3
ccos.3
ccosh.3
cexp.3
cimag.3
clog.3
cosh.3
creal.3
csin.3
csinh.3
ctan.3
ctanh.3
sinh.3
tanh.3
mtk
Various reformattings.
Various pages
Alain Portal
Formating fixes.
mlock.2
mprotect.2
mpool.3
offsetof.3
Alain Portal
Format SYNOPSIS in a manner consistent with other pages.
Various pages
mtk / Alain Portal
Format casts so that there is a non-breaking space after the
type, and remove unnecessary parentheses around the casted value.
Thus, for example, the following:
.IR "(size_t) (\-1)" .
becomes:
.IR "(size_t)\ \-1" .
Various pages
mtk / Alain Portal
Replace "-" by "\-" where a real dash is required.
Various pages
mtk
Make the formatting of instances of '*varname' consistent, changing
instances such as:
.RI * varname
to:
.I *varname
pciconfig_read.2
nfsservctl.2
bstring.3
cpow.3
getipnodebyname.3
getpwnam.3
getrpcent.3
lsearch.3
malloc_hook.3
mpool.3
stdin.3
strtol.3
strtoul.3
unlocked_stdio.3
regex.3
sd.4
resolv.conf.5
utmp.5
futex.7
mtk
Format SYNOPSIS consistently.
drand48.3
drand48_r.3
flockfile.3
erf.3
sigvec.3
timeradd.3
wprintf.3
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Standardize sentence used under "Feature Test Macro Requirements"
when referring to all functions shown in the SYNOPSIS.
get_kernel_syms.2
getdents.2
getitimer.2
nanosleep.2
query_module.2
statvfs.2
clock_getres.3
getaddrinfo.3
getgrent.3
getipnodebyname.3
console_ioctl.4
tty_ioctl.4
rtnetlink.7
mtk
Indent structure definitions by +4n.
recv.2
btree.3
dbopen.3
ether_aton.3
fts.3
hash.3
mpool.3
profil.3
rcmd.3
recno.3
rpc.3
xdr.3
console_ioctl.4
ddp.7
ip.7
ipv6.7
svipc.7
mtk
Use C99 standard types in declarations.
s/u_long/unsigned long/
s/ulong/unsigned long/
s/u_char/unsigned char/
s/u_short/unsigned short/
s/ushort/unsigned short/
s/u_int8_t/uint8_t/
s/u_int16_t/uint16_t/
s/u_int32_t/uint32_t/
s/u_int/unsigned int/
exit_group.2
fallocate.2
getdents.2
ioctl_list.2
nfsservctl.2
sched_setaffinity.2
set_tid_address.2
ustat.2
argz_add.3
confstr.3
envz_add.3
getline.3
getpwnam.3
gets.3
getw.3
inet_ntop.3
inet_pton.3
offsetof.3
console_ioctl.4
termcap.5
ascii.7
feature_test_macros.7
netlink.7
operator.7
svipc.7
mtk
Fix unbalanced .nf/.fi pairs.
chmod.2
getxattr.2
listxattr.2
lseek.2
removexattr.2
setxattr.2
stat.2
feature_test_macros.7
fpathconf.3
fopen.3
mtk
Rename argument: s/file*des/fd/ , since that is the name most
commonly used on man pages for a file descriptor argument.
bindresvport.3
des_crypt.3
getopt.3
getrpcent.3
realpath.3
rpc.3
xdr.3
mtk
Removed .SM macros.
madvise.2
getdirentries.3
printf.3
sigvec.3
mtk
Remove extraneous .br macro before/after .SH/.SS.
_syscall.2
lookup_dcookie.2
aio_cancel.3
aio_error.3
aio_fsync.3
aio_read.3
aio_return.3
aio_write.3
canonicalize_file_name.3
envz_add.3
getgrouplist.3
getttyent.3
key_setsecret.3
mtrace.3
tcgetpgrp.3
tcgetsid.3
ttyslot.3
tty_ioctl.4
mtk
Remove extraneous .sp macros.
fcntl.2
outb.2
send.2
syscalls.2
getopt.3
proc.5
man-pages.7
standards.7
tcp.7
mtk
Remove/replace extraneous .sp macros.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
_syscall.2
mtk
Nowadays there are seven macros (see 2.74 change log also).
arch_prctl.2
mtk, Acked by Andi Kleen
Clarify interpretation of 'addr'; plus a few other minor edits
and updates.
bind.2
mtk
Minor rewrites.
close.2
mtk
Clarify relationship between file descriptor and open file
description.
connect.2
mtk, Acked by Andi Kleen
Since kernel 2.2, AF_UNSPEC for unconnecting a connected
socket *is* supported.
execve.2
Alain Portal
Minor rewordings.
futimesat.2
Alain Portal
Remove duplicate "#include <fcntl.h>" from SYNOPSIS.
getgid.2
mtk
Add getresgid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
getpagesize.2
mtk
Small rewording.
getresuid.2
mtk
Rewrote various parts.
getuid.2
mtk
Add getresuid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
ioctl_list.2
Alain Portal
Use proper tables for layout, and various formatting fixes.
mtk
Various formatting fixes.
listen.2
mtk
Rewrote various parts.
mbind.2
Andi Kleen / mtk / Alain Portal
Modify explanation of EINVAL 'maxnode' error.
mmap.2
mtk
Add comma to clarify meaning of a sentence.
open.2
mtk
Clarify initial description of O_EXCL.
Clarify description of behaviors of O_CREAT | O_EXCL
for symbolic links.
Clarify text describing use of lockfiles without O_EXCL.
mtk, with input from Timo Sirainen and Trond Myklebust
O_EXCL is supported on NFSv3 and later, with Linux 2.6 and later.
pipe.2
mtk
Rename 'filedes' argument 'pipefd'.
pivot_root.2
mtk
s/cwd/current working directory/
seteuid.2
mtk
Minor changes.
setpgid.2
mtk
Add credentials(7) to SEE ALSO, and updated copyright credits,
to reflect my rewrite of a few months ago.
setsid.2
mtk
Add getsid(2) and credentials(7) to SEE ALSO.
spu_create.2
Alain Portal / mtk; acked by Jeremy Kerr
Minor formatting/wording changes.
mtk
Put EPERM in right alphabetical position in ERRORS list.
argz_add.3
mtk
Formatting fixes.
atexit.3
mtk
Minor changes to example program.
cerf.3
mtk
These functions are still not present as at glibc 2.7.
dbopen.3
Alain Portal / mtk
Various minor spelling and formatting fixes.
envz_add.3
mtk
Formatting fixes.
fexecve.3
mtk
Fix placement of feature test macro in SYNOPSIS.
fmax.3
fmin.3
mtk
Small rewording.
getline.3
mtk
Minor changes to example program.
getrpcent.3
getrpcport.3
mtk
Use modern C prototypes in SYNOPSIS.
getutent.3
Alain Portal / mtk
Formatting fixes.
mbsnrtowcs.3
mbsrtowcs.3
mbstowcs.3
mtk
Use .IP tags to create properly formatted lists.
rpc.3
mtk
Convert function declarations to use modern C prototypes.
Add text and start of page describing header files
and types required by functions.
Reformat discussion of request under clnt_control().
xdr.3
mtk
Convert function declarations to use modern C prototypes.
Remove crufty "int empty" from xdrrec_eof() description.
console_codes.4
Phil Endecott
Relocate misplaced line:
"and if LF/NL (new line mode) is set also a carriage return;"
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458338.
console_ioctl.4
mtk
Formatting fixes.
bootparam.7
mtk, after a note by Alan Portal
Fix reference to kernel documentation source file in the
"The Sound Driver" subsection.
man-pages.7
Alain Portal
Move CONFIGURATION description after SYNOPSIS description.
mtk / Alain Portal
Note that header files should be surrounded by angle brackets (<>).
posixoptions.7
mtk
Minor formatting and wording fixes.
rtnetlink.7
Andreas Henriksson
Fix description of RTM_F_EQUALIZE.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=458325.
signal.7
mtk
Minor formatting and wording fixes.
socket.7
mtk
Small rewording of discussion of O_ASYNC.
spufs.7
mtk / Jeremy Kerr / Alain Portal
s/SPE/SPU/
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.76 ====================
Released: 2008-01-14
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@sajinet.com.pe>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
longjmp.3
printf.3
scanf.3
setbuf.3
setjmp.3
sk98lin.4
environ.7
mtk
Rework/remove use of ".ad" macros.
ioctl_list.2
mlock.2
mprotect.2
mremap.2
syslog.2
cfree.3
mpool.3
offsetof.3
rpc.3
stdin.3
mtk
Fix unbalanced quotes in formatting macros.
ftok.3
mtk
s/i-node/inode/, for consistency with other pages and POSIX.1-2001.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
chown.2
mtk
Minor wording change.
dup.2
mtk
Reordered text in DESCRIPTION and added some details for dup2().
open.2
Trond Myklebust / mtk
Minor fix to O_EXCL changes in previous release.
gettid.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; noted that thread ID is not the same
thing as a POSIX thread ID.
pipe.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; minor additions to EXAMPLE text.
umask.2
mtk
A few rewrites and additions.
strptime.3
Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon / mtk
Add "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" to example program.
initrd.4
mtk
Use quotes more consistently in formatting macros.
random.4
mtk, after a report by Daniel Kahn Gilmor
Add 2.6 details for /proc/sys/kernel/random/poolsize.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=459232.
pthreads.7
mtk
Minor changes.
spufs.7
mtk / Jeremy Kerr
Define abbreviation "MSS".
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.77 ====================
Released: 2008-01-31
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@chezphil.org>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
stdarg.3
bootparam.7
Thomas Huriaux
Fix broken use of single quotes at start of line,
as per: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462636
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
New pages
---------
remove_COLOPHON.sh
mtk
Script to remove the COLOPHON section from the man pages provided
as command-line arguments. This is useful to remove the COLOPHON
sections from all of the man pages in two different release trees
in order to do a "diff -ruN" to see the "real" differences
between the trees.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fcntl.2
mtk
Replace tables with .TP macros.
fork.2
mtk
Added discussion of directory streams.
Removed "#include <sys/types>" from SYNOPSIS.
Changed authorship notice.
futex.2
mtk
Add ENOSYS error to errors.
Phil Endecott
Explicitly describe return value in the event of an error.
inotify_add_watch.2
mtk
Minor wording changes.
splice.2
WANG Cong
Fix types for 2 and 4 arguments in splice prototype.
wait.2
Phil Endecott
Clarify description of return value for WNOHANG.
tkill.2
mtk
Rewrote DESCRIPTION; emphasized that tkill() is obsoleted by
tgkill().
alloca.3
mtk
Change description in NAME section.
Various rewrites and additions (including notes on longjmp() and
SIGSEGV).
mtk / Vincent Lefevre
Weaken warning against use of alloca(), and
point out some cases where it can be useful;
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=461100.
bootparam.7
Pavel Heimlich
Remove junk line.
inotify.7
mtk
Replace tables with .TP macros.
s/MultiSource Synchronization/MultiSource Synchronization (MSS)/
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.78 ====================
Released: 2008-02-15
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@chezphil.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
sigaction.2
signal.2
sigwaitinfo.2
signal.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO entry referring to new signalfd.2 page.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
New pages
---------
eventfd.2
mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
Documents the eventfd() system call, new in 2.6.22.
signalfd.2
mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
Documents the signalfd() system call, new in 2.6.22.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
futex.2
mtk / Phil Endecott
Improve wording describing error returns.
open.2
Greg Banks
Greatly expand the detail on O_DIRECT.
reboot.2
mtk / Michael Tokarev
Fix RETURN VALUE description: in some cases reboot() does not
return.
mtk
Rename the 'flag' argument to 'cmd', since that is more meaningful,
and also what is used in the kernel source.
Other minor wording changes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.79 ====================
Released: 2008-03-07
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Lasse Kärkkäinen <tronic@trn.iki.fi>
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Ron Burk <ronburk@gmail.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Walter Harms <WHarms@bfs.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
New pages
---------
timerfd_create.2
mtk, with input and review from Davide Libenzi
Documents the timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and
timerfd_gettime() system calls, which are new in 2.6.25.
New links
---------
timerfd_gettime.2
timerfd_settime.2
mtk
Links to new timerfd_create.2 page.
eventfd_read.3
eventfd_write.3
mtk
Links to eventfd.2.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
Makefile
aeb
Remove code relating to man1/README, which no longer exists.
execve.2
mtk
Clarify detail of RLIMIT_STACK/4 limit for argv+environ.
getitimer.2
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.
getrusage.2
mtk
Minor rewordings.
open.2
Michael Haardt
Move discussion of 'mode' argument under description of O_CREAT.
signalfd.2
mtk
Fix type for 'ssi_ptr' field.
See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2008-01/msg00002.html.
syscalls.2
mtk
Add timerfd_create(), timerfd_settime(), and timerfd_gettime()
to list.
syslog.2
Jeremy Kerr
Add info on command type 10.
Add details on types 6, 7, 8, and 9.
Minor grammar fix.
mtk
Update LOG_BUF_LEN details.
Update RETURN VALUE section.
Notes capability requirements under EPERM error.
Minor fix to description of type==3 and type==4.
Other minor edits.
ctime.3
Walter Harms
Note that POSIX requires localtime() to act as though tzset()
was called, but localtime_r() does not have the same requirement.
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2034/
getaddrinfo.3
mtk
Clarify discussion of NULL 'hints' argument; other minor rewrites.
mtk / Sam Varshavchik
Remove some duplicated text.
malloc.3
Lasse Kärkkäinen / Mike Frysinger / mtk
Clarify description of realloc() behavior for
((size == 0) && (ptr != NULL)).
posix_fallocate.3
Samuel Thibault
s/stdlib.h/fcntl.h/ in SYNOPSIS.
proc.5
Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao
Update /proc/[number]/cmdline description.
It used to be true that the command line arguments were
not accessible when the process had been swapped out.
In ancient kernels (circa 2.0.*) the problem was that the
kernel relied on get_phys_addr to access the user space buffer,
which stopped working as soon as the process was swapped out.
Recent kernels use get_user_pages for the same purpose and thus
they should not have that limitation.
epoll.7
Davide Libenzi / mtk
Clarify the somewhat unintuitive behavior that occurs if a file
descriptor in an epoll set is closed while other file descriptors
referring to the same underlying open file description remain
open.
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/596462/.
mtk
Clarify error that occurs if we add an epoll fd to its own set.
mtk
A few minor rewordings.
mtk, after a note by Chris Heath
Rework Q1/A1, describing what happens when adding the same
file descriptor twice to an epoll set, and when adding duplicate
file descriptors to the same epoll set.
Heikki Orsila / mtk / Davide Libenzi
Clarify Q9/A9 to discuss packet/token-oriented files.
mtk, after comments by Davide Libenzi and Chris Heath
Added Q0/A0, making explicit that the key for items in an epoll
set is [file descriptor, open file description].
mtk, after a note by Ron Burk
Change A3, to note that when events are available,
the epoll file descriptor will indicate as being readable.
mtk
Add some further explanation to Q5/A5 about why an epoll file
descriptor cannot be passed across a Unix domain socket.
posixoptions.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO entry for standards(7).
regex.7
mtk
Add grep(1) to SEE ALSO.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=348552.
standards.7
mtk
Add SEE ALSO entry for posixoptions(7).
time.7
mtk
Added SEE ALSO entry referring to timerfd_create.2.
==================== Changes in man-pages-2.80 ====================
Released: 2008-06-05
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com>
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Anoop <acv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Aurelien Gerome <ag@roxor.cx>
Daniel Burr <dburr@topcon.com>
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Felix Kater <fkater@googlemail.com>
Folkert van Heusden <folkert@vanheusden.com>
Hamaji Shinichiro <shinichiro.hamaji@gmail.com>
Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.fi>
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>
Karsten Weiss <K.Weiss@science-computing.de>
Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>
Marty Leisner <leisner@rochester.rr.com>
Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@trialog.com>
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>
Theodoros V. Kalamatianos <thkala@softlab.ece.ntua.gr>
Thomas Huriaux <thomas.huriaux@gmail.com>
Tim Stoakes <tim@stoakes.net>
Timothy Baldwin <T.E.Baldwin99@members.leeds.ac.uk>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
bdflush.2
inotify_add_watch.2
mprotect.2
sigprocmask.2
ctime.3
getusershell.3
setbuf.3
st.4
ip.7
packet.7
mtk
Replace "(il)legal" by "(not) permitted" or "(in)valid".
read.2
utime.2
filesystems.5
packet.7
mtk
s/time stamp/timestamp/, for consistency with majority use
in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
madvise.2
mbind.2
mincore.2
mmap.2
mmap2.2
msync.2
remap_file_pages.2
mtk
Change name of 'start' argument to 'addr' for consistency
with:
* other memory-related interfaces
* POSIX specification (for those interfaces in POSIX)
* Linux and glibc source code (in at least some cases)
Various pages
mtk
s/filesystem/file system/, for consistency with majority use
in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
Various pages
mtk
s/zeroes/zeros/, for consistency with majority use
in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
abs.3
proc.5
mtk
s/builtin/built-in/, for consistency with majority use
in other pages, and in POSIX.1.
mknod.2
ftw.3
mtk
s/normal file/regular file/
Various pages
mtk
s/nonempty/non-empty/
Various pages
mtk
s/nonzero/non-zero/
Various pages
mtk
s/realtime/real-time/, for consistency with majority usage.
Various pages
mtk
s/command line/command-line/ when used attributively.
Various pages
mtk
Use "run time" when non-attributive, "run-time" when attributive.
Various pages
mtk
Various pages that I wrote carried a slightly modified version
of the "verbatim" license. In the interests of minimizing
license proliferation, I've reverted the modified form
so that the license is exactly the same as on other pages
carrying the verbatim license.
epoll_ctl.2
getitimer.2
getrlimit.2
unix.7
mtk
s/since kernel x.y.z/since Linux x.y.z/
wait.2
inotify.7
mtk
Reformat kernel version information for flags.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
(Special thanks to Nicolas François.)
New pages
---------
random_r.3
mtk, after a suggestion by aeb
Documents random_r(3), srandom_r(3), initstate_r(3), and
setstate_r(3), which are the reentrant equivalents of
random(3), srandom(3), initstate(3), and setstate(3).
New links
---------
lutimes.3
mtk
Link to futimes.3.
initstate_r.3
setstate_r.3
srandom_r.3
mtk
Links to random_r.3.
daylight.3
timezone.3
tzname.3
mtk
Links to tzset.3.
isnanf.3
isnanl.3
mtk
Links to finite.3.
encrypt_r.3
setkey_r.3
mtk
Links to encrypt.3.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
mtk
Added note that CLONE_STOPPED (which no-one uses anyway) is
now deprecated.
epoll_create.2
mtk
Add NOTES section pointing out that 'size' argument is unused
since kernel 2.6.8.
epoll_ctl.2
mtk
Added portability note to BUGS text for EPOLL_CTL_DEL.
epoll_wait.2
mtk
If the 'sigmask' is NULL, then epoll_pwait() is equivalent
to epoll_wait().
fork.2
mtk
NOTES: since glibc 2.3.3, the glibc NPTL fork() wrapper
bypasses the fork() system call to invoke clone() with
flags providing equivalent functionality.
futex.2
mtk, after a note from Adrian Bunk
FUTEX_FD has been removed, as of kernel 2.6.26.
futimesat.2
mtk
Note that this system call is made obsolete by utimensat(2).
getgroups.2
Petter Reinholdtsen
SEE ALSO: Add getgrouplist(3).
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479284.
mtk
NGROUPS_MAX increased in kernel 2.6.4.
SEE ALSO: Add credentials(7).
mtk
Reformat DESCRIPTION and RETURN VALUE sections to be more
consistent with man-pages style.
Add some more detail to descriptions of system calls.
Clarified what happens if caller of getgroups() is a member of
more than 'size' supplementary groups.
ERRORS: Add ENOMEM.
getpriority.2
mtk, after a note from Ingo Molnar
Add text in NOTES about the punchier effect of nice values in
kernel 2.6.23 and later.
Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-nice-design.txt to SEE ALSO list.
gettid.2
mtk
Added VERSIONS section noting that this system call first
appeared in 2.4.11.
kill.2
Marty Leisner / mtk
Add text explicitly noting that sig==0 can be used to check for
the existence of a PID or PGID.
mtk
A few minor rewordings.
mbind.2
mtk
The location of the numactl package has changed.
mmap.2
mtk
Added some .SS headings to make structure of page a little
more obvious.
mtk, with input from Nick Piggin
MAP_POPULATE supports both file and anonymous mappings.
Since 2.6.23, MAP_POPULATE supports private mappings.
Since 2.6.23, MAP_NONBLOCK causes MAP_POPULATE to be a no-op.
mtk
NOTES: Added details on mapping address that is selected by
kernel when MAP_FIXED is / isn't specified.
mount.2
mtk
The MS_REMOUNT changes in 2.4 were at 2.4.10 (not 2.4).
mtk
Minor wording change.
msgctl.2
mtk
Clarify that "unused" fields in msginfo structure are
"unused within the kernel".
msginfo.msgpool is measured in kilobytes, not bytes.
Minor rewordings in comments for msginfo structure.
msgop.2
mtk
Various minor rewordings and restructurings for clarity.
mtk, after a note from Reuben Thomas
Remove "msgop" from NAME section.
mkdir.2
mtk
Clarify meaning of "BSD group semantics".
SEE ALSO: add chown(2).
mknod.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add chown(2) and chmod(2).
mmap.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add mprotect(2) and shmat(2).
mprotect.2
Hamaji Shinichiro
SYNOPSIS: s/size_t \*len/size_t len/
open.2
mtk
Note that O_CLOEXEC should be in the next POSIX.1 revision.
mtk
More than just ext2 supports "mount -o bsdgroups" nowadays,
so make the discussion about group ownership of new files a bit
more generic.
mtk
SEE ALSO: add chown(2) and chmod(2).
poll.2
mtk
If the 'sigmask' is NULL, then ppoll() is equivalent to poll()
with respect to signal mask manipulations.
posix_fadvise.2
mtk
s/posix_madvise (2)/posix_madvise (3)/;
(The referred-to page still doesn't exist yet, but hopefully
will do sometime soon.)
ptrace.2
Anoop, Acked by Roland McGrath.
Re PTRACE_PEEKUSER: the offsets and data returned might not
match with the definition of struct user.
See also http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/375
recv.2
Felix Kater / mtk
Improve wording for EAGAIN error in discussion of MSG_DONTWAIT.
rmdir.2
Martin Pitt
POSIX.1 also allows EEXIST for the ENOTEMPTY error condition.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467552.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk, with input from Ingo Molnar
Add description of SCHED_IDLE policy (new in 2.6.23).
Tweak description of SCHED_BATCH.
Minor rewordings.
select_tut.2
Justin Pryzby
Various wording clean-ups.
semctl.2
mtk
Clarify that "unused" fields in seminfo structure are
"unused within the kernel".
Minor rewordings in comments for seminfo structure.
semop.2
Aurelien Gerome
Small fix in example code.
setpgid.2
mtk / Karsten Weiss
Clarify description of setpgid() a little.
shmctl.2
mtk
Clarify that "unused" fields in shminfo structure are
"unused within the kernel".
Minor rewordings in comments for shminfo structure.
shmop.2
mtk, after a note from Reuben Thomas
Remove "shmop" from NAME section.
signalfd.2
mtk
Added BUGS text noting that before kernel 2.6.25, the ssi_int
and ssi_ptr fields are not set.
Added comments describing fields in signalfd_siginfo structure.
Update field names in example program (s/signo/ssi_signo/).
Various small fixes, and remove duplicated sentence.
Minor edits to structure definition.
sigqueue.2
mtk
Added some comments to code in NOTES.
stat.2
mtk
Minor wording change.
symlink.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add lchown(2).
sync_file_range.2
mtk / Andrew Morton
Remove statement that (SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_BEFORE |
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE | SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WAIT_AFTER) is
a traditional fdatasync(2) operation.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482
comments 129 to 131.
syscalls.2
mtk
This page is now up to date as at kernel 2.6.25.
syslog.2
mtk
Small tidy up of language relating to permissions/capabilities.
timerfd_create.2
mtk
Minor change to example program.
Minor wording change.
utime.2
Reuben Thomas
Remove unnecessary subheading for utimes().
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477402.
mtk
Change description in NAME line ("or" is not correct: these calls
always change *both* timestamps).
CONFORMING TO: utimes() is in POSIX.1-2001.
mtk
Rename 'buf' argument of utime() to 'times' (like utimes()).
Clarify explanation of EACCES and EPERM errors.
Remove BUGS section, since it doesn't seem to add useful
information.
Clarified discussion of capabilities, and noted that
CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE also has a role.
Other minor rewordings.
wait.2
mtk, after a note by Justin Pryzby
Add a sentence clarifying that even though the default disposition
of SIGCHLD is "ignore", explicitly setting the disposition to
SIG_IGN results in different treatment of zombies.
aio_cancel.3
aio_error.3
aio_fsync.3
aio_read.3
aio_return.3
aio_suspend.3
aio_write.3
Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@csc.calpoly.edu>
Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS.
backtrace.3
Nicolas François
s/backtrace_symbols/backtrace_symbols_fd/ in one sentence.
mtk
Fix bogus reference to variable 'strings': should be:
"the array of pointers".
ctime.3
mtk
Add warning under NOTES that asctime(), ctime(), gmtime(), and
localtime() may each overwrite the static object returned by any
of the other calls.
Other minor edits.
dlopen.3
mtk
Add more detail to the description of the fields in the
structure returned by dladdr().
fexecve.3
mtk
Clean up SYNOPSIS after work by cut-and-paste-Pete:
the necessary header file is <unistd.h> not <sys/time.h>!
futimes.3
mtk
Add documentation of lutimes(), which appeared in glibc 2.6.
mtk
Change description in NAME line ("or" is not correct: these calls
always change *both* timestamps).
CONFORMING TO: futimes() did not come from 4.2BSD. (It came from
FreeBSD; see the FreeBSD man page.)
getenv.3
mtk
Noted that caller must not modify returned value string.
Noted that getenv() is not reentrant: the buffer may be statically
allocated and overwritten by later calls to getenv(), putenv(),
setenv(), or unsetenv().
Other minor rewrites.
getgrent.3
Petter Reinholdtsen
SEE ALSO: Add getgrouplist(3).
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=479284.
gethostbyname.3
mtk
Add 'h_errno' to NAME list.
getopt.3
mtk
Add 'optarg', 'optind', 'opterr', and 'optopt' to NAME section.
Add subheading for getopt_long() and getopt_long_only()
description.
getpt.3
mtk
Point out that this function should be avoided in favor of
posix_openpt().
Add ERRORS section referring to open(2).
getsubopt.3
Daniel Burr
SYNOPSIS: Fix declaration of valuep.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476672.
malloc.3
mtk
RETURN VALUE: Note circumstances in which successful malloc() and
calloc() can return NULL.
mq_open.3
mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h>
is needed for 'mode' constants.
opendir.3
mtk
Describe treatment of close-on-exec flag by opendir() and
fdopendir().
openpty.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: add ttyname(3).
raise.3
mtk / Timothy Baldwin
Clarify semantics of raise() when called from a multithreaded
program.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=476484.
mtk
Rewrites and additions to various parts of the page.
rand.3
Tolga Dalman / aeb / mtk
Remove outdated warning in NOTES; encourage the use of
random(3) instead.
Folkert van Heusden
Clarify wording describing range of values returned by rand().
random.3
aeb / mtk / Tolga Dalman
Recommend use or random_r(3) for multithreaded applications
that need independent, reproducible sequences of random numbers.
Move references to "The Art of Computer Programming" and
"Numerical Recipes", formerly in rand(3), to this page.
Add drand48(93) to SEE ALSO list.
regex.3
Heikki Orsila
Clarify description of 'rm_eo' field.
sem_open.3
mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
needed for 'mode' constants.
sem_post.3
mtk
Added pointer to example in sem_wait(3).
sem_close.3
sem_destroy.3
sem_getvalue.3
sem_init.3
sem_open.3
sem_post.3
sem_unlink.3
sem_wait.3
mtk, after a note from Marty Leisner
Add text to SYNOPSIS noting the need to link with "-lrt" or
"-pthread".
setenv.3
mtk
setenv() copies 'name' and 'value' (contrast with putenv()).
unsetenv() of a nonexistent variable does nothing and is
considered successful.
Noted that setenv() and unsetenv() need not be reentrant.
shm_open.3
mtk, after a note by Marty Leisner
Note that <fcntl.h> is needed for O_* constants and <sys/stat.h> is
needed for 'mode' constants.
undocumented.3
mtk
initstate_r(3), setkey_r(3), setstate_r(3) are now documented.
utmp.5
Nicolas François
Small rewording.
resolv.conf.5
Nicolas François
gethostname() is in Section 2, not section 3.
ascii.7
Stuart Brady
Fix rendering of ' (backtick) and apostrophe (') in tables
charsets.7
Nicolas François
s/unicode.com/unicode.org/
credentials.7
mtk
NOTES: Pthreads requires that all threads share the same UIDs and
GIDs. But the Linux kernel maintains separate UIDs and GIDs for
every thread. NPTL does some work to ensure that credential
changes by any thread are carried through to all POSIX threads in
a process.
mtk
sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) can be used to determine the number of
supplementary groups that a process may belong to.
Clarify that supplementary group IDs are specified in POSIX.1-2001.
epoll.7
mtk, after a note from Sam Varshavchik
For answer A2, change "not recommended" to "careful programming
may be required".
inotify.7
mtk
Document SIGIO feature (new in 2.6.25) for inotify file descriptors.
mtk
Note that select()/poll()/epoll_wait() indicate a ready inotify
file descriptor as readable.
mtk
Document IN_ATTRIB in a little more detail.
pthreads.7
Justin Pryzby
Grammar fix, plus fix typo in script.
mtk
Add list of thread-safe functions.
standards.7
mtk
Add a section on the upcoming POSIX revision.
ld.so.8
Justin Pryzby / mtk
Various wording improvements.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.00 ====================
Released: 2008-06-12, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
The POSIX.1 man pages (sections 0p, 1p, 3p) have been moved out
of this package into the separate man-pages-posix package.
This made sense because those pages are seldom changed (only formatting
fixes, etc.) so that it was unnecessary to redistribute them with each
man-pages release.
console_codes.4
random.4
dir_colors.5
proc.5
glob.7
Stuart Brady
s/`/\`/ for backquotes used in command substitution, for
proper rendering in UTF-8.
Various pages
mtk, after a note from Stuart Brady
Using /'x'/ to denote a character (string) renders poorly in
UTF-8, where the two ' characters render as closing single
quotes. On the other hand, using /`x'/ renders nicely on UTF-8,
where proper opening and closing single quotes are produced by
groff(1), but looks ugly when rendered in ASCII. Using the
sequence /\\aqx\\aq/ produces a reasonable rendering ('\\aq'
is a vertical "apostrophe quote") in both UTF-8 and ASCII.
So that change is made in a number of pages.
See also http://www.cl.cal.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html.
Various pages
mtk
Replace form /`string'/ by /"string"/, since the former renders
poorly in ASCII.
termios.3
console_codes.4
tty_ioctl.4
termcap.5
charsets.7
mtk
Control character names (^X) are written boldface, without
quotes.
printf.3
scanf.3
proc.5
glob.7
regex.7
mtk
Various edits to try and bring some consistency to the use of
quotes.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
tty_ioctl.4
mtk
Small rewordings in description of packet mode.
locale.7
mtk
Minor formatting fixes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.01 ====================
Released: 2008-06-25, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.comm>
Andrew P <ap@zip.com.au>
Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com>
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ib.com>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Daniele Giacomini <appunti2@gmail.com>
Dorin Lazar <dorin.lazar@gmail.com>
George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Jason Englander <jason@englanders.cc>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Laurent Vivier <laurent.vivier@bull.net>
Masatake YAMOTO <yamoto@redhat.com>
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
Stuart Cunningham <stuartc@rd.bbc.co.uk>
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
Yao Zhao <dragonlinux@gmail.com>
WANG Cong <wcong@critical-links.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
acct.5
mtk
A complete rewrite of this page, now with much more detail.
hostname.7
mtk
A description of hostname resolution. Taken from FreeBSD 6.2,
and lightly edited for man-pages style.
symlink.7
mtk
A description of symbolic links. Taken from FreeBSD 6.2, but
heavily edited for Linux details, improved readability, and
man-pages style.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
getrlimit.2
mtk / Peter Zijlstra
Add description of RLIMIT_RTTIME limit, new in 2.6.25.
mkstemp.3
mtk
Add description of mkostemp(), new in glibc 2.7.
core.5
mtk, after a note by Petr Gajdos; review by Neil Horman
Document core_pattern pipe syntax, which appeared in
kernel 2.6.19.
Add an example program demonstrating use of core_pattern
pipe syntax.
mtk
Document /proc/PID/coredump_filter, new in kernel 2.6.23.
Documentation was based on the text in
Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, plus testing, and
checking the kernel source.
proc.5
mtk
Document /proc/PID/oom_score, which was new in kernel 2.6.11.
This file displays the "badness" score of the process, which
provides the basis for OOM-killer decisions.
mtk
Document /proc/PID/oom_adj, which was new in kernel 2.6.11.
This file influences the oom_score of a process.
mtk
Document /proc/PID/limits, which was new in 2.6.24.
This file displays a process's resource limits.
mtk
Document /proc/PID/fdinfo/*, which was new in 2.6.22.
These files display info about each descriptor opened by the
process: the current file offset, and the file access mode +
file status flags as set in open() or fcntl(F_SETFL).
mtk
Document /proc/PID/mountinfo, which was new in 2.6.26.
This file displays information about mount points.
Closely based on text from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt.
mtk
Document /proc/PID/mountstats, which was new in 2.6.17.
This file displays statistics about mount points.
mtk
Document /proc/PID/status.
Samuel Thibault / mtk, review by Laurent Vivier,
Christian Borntraeger, and Andrew P
Document guest (virtual CPU) time field in /proc/stat.
Document guest (virtual CPU) time fields in /proc/PID/stat.
New links
---------
mkostemp.3
mtk
Link to mkstemp.3.
getcwd.2
mtk
Link to getcwd.3, which describes several interfaces, among
them getcwd(), which is in fact a system call.
Global changes
--------------
sched_setaffinity.2
sched_setscheduler.2
set_mempolicy.2
mbind.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add cpuset(7).
chown.2
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
fchownat.2
fstatat.2
getxattr.2
link.2
linkat.2
listxattr.2
open.2
readlink.2
removexattr.2
rename.2
setxattr.2
stat.2
symlink.2
symlinkat.2
unlink.2
futimes.3
remove.3
path_resolution.7
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add symlink(7).
intro.1
time.1
fcntl.2
gethostbyname.3
ioctl_list.2
mtk
Wrap source lines so that new sentence starts on new line.
addseverity.3
backtrace.3
dlopen.3
fmtmsg.3
getnameinfo.3
getpt.3
grantpt.3
makecontext.3
ptsname.3
tcgetsid.3
unlockpt.3
wordexp.3
mtk
Added VERSIONS section.
msgctl.2
msgget.2
semget.2
semop.2
pciconfig_read.2
basename.3
cmsg.3
ftok.3
console_ioctl.4
tzfile.5
mq_overview.7
pty.7
mtk
For consistency, "fix" cases where argument of .B or .I was
on the following source line.
adjtimex.2
getrusage.2
io_getevents.2
poll.2
select.2
semop.2
sigwaitinfo.2
aio_suspend.3
clock_getres.3
mq_receive.3
mq_send.3
sem_wait.3
proc.5
mtk
SEE ALSO: add time(7)
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places.
(Special thanks to Nicolas François and Alain Portal.)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
acct.2
mtk
Add a few more words to DESCRIPTION.
NOTES: Add pointer to acct(5).
alarm.2
Alain Portal
s/process/calling process/ so as to say that the alarm signal is
delivered to the calling process.
brk.2
Yao Zhao / mtk
Clarify discussion of return value of sbrk().
mtk
DESCRIPTION: Add some sentences giving an overview of these
interfaces.
Add note recommending use of malloc(3).
Change name of brk() argument to the simpler 'addr'.
Add "(void *)" cast to "-1" for error return of sbrk().
Removed some incorrect text about "brk(0)".
Note that SUSv2 specified the return value of sbrk().
Added a detail on the glibc brk() wrapper.
Remove discussions of old standards (C89 and POSIX.1-1990);
CONFORMING TO already discusses the situation with respect
to more recent standards.
chmod.2
mtk
Clarify description of chmod() and fchmod().
Add further detail on S_ISUID, S_ISGID, and S_ISVTX permissions.
Reformat list of permissions bits.
chown.2
mtk
Describe rules governing ownership of new files (bsdgroups
versus sysvgroups, and the effect of the parent directory's
set-group-ID permission bit).
chroot.2
Alain Portal
Clarify description a little.
s/changes the root directory/
changes the root directory of the calling process/
execve.2
mtk
Fix text that warns against use of NULL argv and envp.
Using a NULL envp does in fact seem to be portable (works
on Solaris and FreeBSD), but the Linux semantics for a NULL
argv certainly aren't consistent with other implementations.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408.
getdents.2
mtk, after a note from George Spelvin
Document d_type field, present since kernel 2.6.4.
Other minor edits.
getitimer.2
mtk
Noted that POSIX.1 leaves interactions with alarm(), sleep(),
and usleep() unspecified.
Linux 2.6.16 removed the MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES ceiling on timer
values.
Other minor changes.
io_cancel.2
io_destroy.2
io_getevents.2
io_setup.2
io_submit.2
mtk, after a note by Masatake YAMOTO and input from Jeff Moyer
Describe the unconventional error return provided by the
wrapper function in libaio (and contrast with behavior if
the system call is invoked via syscall(2)).
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ltp/4445/
Alain Portal / mtk
Re-order ERRORS and SEE ALSO entries to be alphabetical.
io_getevents.2
Alain Portal
Small wording fix.
io_submit.2
Jeff Moyer
s/AIO request blocks/AIO control blocks/
mknod.2
mtk
Note that EEXIST applies, even if the pathname is a
(possibly dangling) symbolic link.
nanosleep.2
mtk, after a report from Stephane Chazelas
Remove crufty discussion of HZ, and replace with a pointer
to time(7).
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485636
mtk, after some discussions with Bart Van Assche and Roman Zippel
NOTES: describe CLOCK_REALTIME versus CLOCK_NANOSLEEP
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/696854/
"nanosleep() uses CLOCK_MONOTONIC, should be CLOCK_REALTIME?"
mtk
Replace mentions of "process' by "thread".
NOTES: describe case where clock_nanosleep() can be preferable.
Some minor rewrites.
open.2
mtk, after a note from Christoph Hellwig
NOTES: Note that access mode flags are not single bits,
and document the Linuxism "access mode 3".
See also http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/653123.
readdir.2
mtk
Minor wording fixes.
recv.2
Alain Portal
Add comment to 'ee_pad' field in structure definition.
sched_setscheduler.2
mtk
Add pointer to discussion of RLIMIT_RTTIME in getrlimit.2.
mtk, after a note by Andrew Clayton
Rewrote and restructured various parts of the page for greater
clarity.
mtk
Add more detail to the rules that are applied when an
unprivileged process with a non-zero RLIMIT_RTPRIO limit
changes policy and priority.
SEE ALSO: Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.txt
sync_file_range.2
Pavel Machek
SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE can block on writes greater than request
queue size. For some background, see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/687713/focus=688340
syscalls.2
mtk
Added system call history back to version 1.2.
Fix typo on kernel version for pivot_root().
syslog.2
WANG Cong
Document ENOSYS error, which can occur if kernel was built without
CONFIG_PRINTK.
utime.2
Nicolas François
Clarify description of 'times' array for utimes().
adjtime.3
mtk
The longstanding bug that if delta was NULL, olddelta
didn't return the outstanding clock adjustment, is now fixed
(since glibc 2.8 + kernel 2.6.26).
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug?id=2449
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6761
dprintf.3
mtk
Note that these functions are included in the next POSIX revision.
Remove editorial discussion about what the functions should have
been named.
ftime.3
mtk
Rewrote various pieces, and added some details.
getaddrinfo.3
mtk
Improve description or 'hints' and 'res' arguments.
Add details on numeric strings that can be specified for 'node'.
Other fairly major restructurings and rewrites to improve
logical structure and clarity of the page.
SEE ALSO: Add hostname(7).
gethostbyname.3
mtk
DESCRIPTION: Add reference to inet_addr(3) for dotted notation.
SEE ALSO: add inet(3).
mtk
Added BUGS section noting that gethostbyname() does not
recognize hexadecimal components in dotted address strings;
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482973
getmntent.3
mtk, after Stuart Cunningham pointed out the typo
Remove statement that LSB deprecates the functions
"endmntent(), setmntent() [sic] and setmntent()".
This doesn't seem to be true (I can't find mention of it
being deprecated in any of the LSB specs). Rather, LSB simply
doesn't specify these functions. (LSB 1.3 had a spec of
setmntent(), but not getmntent() or endmntent(), and noted
that having a spec of setmntent() was of little use without
also having a spec of getmntent().)
See also https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2006-October/003078.html
getnameinfo.3
Tolga Dalman
Remove mention of sa_len field from example code.
That field is a BSDism not present on Linux.
mtk
Various minor changes.
inet.3
mtk / Stephane Chazelas
inet_aton() is *not* in POSIX.1.
Rewrote discussion of why inet_addr() is disfavored.
SEE ALSO: Add getaddrinfo(3).
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482979.
mtk, after a note by Stephane Chazelas
Describe the various address forms supported by inet_aton().
mtk
Rewrite description of inet_network().
Clarify discussion of inet_lnaof(), inet_netof(), and inet_makeaddr().
Add discussion of Classful Addressing, noting that it is obsolete.
Added an EXAMPLE program.
mtk
Relocate discussion of i386 byte order to NOTES.
Note that inet_aton() returns an address in network byte order.
SEE ALSO: Add byteorder(3) and getnameinfo(3).
inet_ntop.3
mtk
Remove unneeded header files from SYNOPSIS.
SEE ALSO: Add inet(3) and getnameinfo(3).
Make NAME line more precise.
Move errors to an ERRORS section.
Add EXAMPLE section pointing to inet_pton(3).
inet_pton.3
mtk / Stephane Chazelas
Remove statement that inet_pton() extends inet_ntoa();
that's not really true, since inet_pton() doesn't support
all of the string forms that are supported by inet_ntoa().
SEE ALSO: Add getaddrinfo(3).
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=482987.
mtk
Describe IPv6 address formats.
Describe dotted decimal format in more detail.
Add an example program.
mtk
Remove unneeded header files from SYNOPSIS.
Make NAME line more precise.
Make description of return value more precise.
SEE ALSO: Add inet(3).
mkfifo.3
mtk
Note that EEXIST applies, even if the pathname is a
(possibly dangling) symbolic link.
mkstemp.3
mtk
Fix discussion of O_EXCL flag.
These functions may also fail for any of the errors described
in open(2).
Various other rewordings.
readdir.3
mtk
Document DT_LNK (symbolic link) for d_type field.
Reorder DT_ entries alphabetically.
remainder.3
mtk
Recommend against drem(), in favor of remainder().
scanf.3
mtk, after a note from Stephane Chazelas
Add an ERRORS section documenting at least some of the errors
that may occur for scanf().
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487254.
mtk, after a note from Stephane Chazelas; review by Stephane Chazelas
Document the GNU 'a' modifier for dynamically allocating strings.
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487254.
Document the GNU 'm' modifier for dynamically allocating strings.
strcat.3
Andreas Herrmann
s/strcat/strncat/ (a typo that changed the semantics in
DESCRIPTION).
strerror.3
mtk, after a note from Daniele Giacomini
Modify SYNOPSIS to show protoypes of both versions of strerror_r(),
and make other small clarifications of the description regarding
the two versions.
random.4
George Spelvin (taking time out from his busy Broadway schedule),
with some tweaks by Matt Mackall and mtk
Add a Usage subsection that recommends most users to use
/dev/urandom, and emphasizes parsimonious usage of
/dev/random.
locale.5
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
LC_TIME: Describe first_weekday and first_workday.
proc.5
mtk
The vaious CPU time fields in /proc/stat and /proc/PID/stat
return time in clock ticks (USER_HZ, cputime_to_clock_t(),
sysconf(_SC_CLK_TCK)).
Updated, clarified and expanded the description several
fields in /proc/[number]/stat.
mtk
Clarified and expanded the description of /proc/[number]/fd.
mtk
Updated and clarified the description of /proc/[number]/statm.
mtk
Updated and clarified the description of /proc/sys/fs/dentry-state.
mtk
Many formatting, wording, and grammar fixes.
man-pages.7
mtk
Enhanced description of VERSIONS section.
mq_overview.7
mtk
Note that Linux does not currently support ACLs for POSIX
message queues.
sem_overview.7
mtk
Note that Linux supports ACLs on POSIX named semaphores
since 2.6.19.
time.7
mtk, with some suggestions from Bart Van Assche and Thomas Gleixner
Added some details about where jiffies come into play.
Added section on high-resolution timers.
Mentioned a few other time-related interfaces at various
points in the page.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/697378.
unix.7
mtk, after a note by Samuel Thibault
Provide a clear description of the three types of address that
can appear in the sockaddr_un structure: pathname, unnamed,
and abstract.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.02 ====================
Released: 2008-07-02, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
clock_nanosleep.2
mtk
A description of the clock_nanosleep() system call,
which was added in kernel 2.6.
getgrouplist.3
mtk
A near complete rewrite, including additional information and
a new example program.
getutmp.3
mtk
Documents getutmp(3) and getutmpx(3).
gnu_get_libc_version.3
mtk
Documents gnu_get_libc_version(3) and gnu_get_libc_release(3).
sigwait.3
mtk
Documents sigwait(3).
shm_overview.7
mtk
An overview of the POSIX shared memory API.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
updwtmp.3
mtk
Document updwtmpx(3).
New links
---------
getutmpx.3
mtk
Link to getutmp.3.
gnu_get_libc_release.3
mtk
Link to gnu_get_libc_version.3
updwtmpx.3
mtk
Link to updwtmp.3
utmpxname.3
mtk
Link to getutent.3.
utmpx.5
mtk
Link to utmp.5.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
s/user name/username/
Various pages
mtk
s/host name/hostname/
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fchmodat.2
Alain Portal
SEE ALSO: add symlink.7. (3.01 changelog wrongly said this
had been done.)
io_setup.2
Alain Portal
Remove superfluous text from RETURN VALUE.
mmap.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add mmap(2), shm_overview(7).
shmget.2
shmop.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add shm_overview(7).
sigreturn.2
mtk
Added a bit more detail on what sigreturn() actually does.
signalfd.2
sigsuspend.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3).
sigwaitinfo.2
mtk
Describe behavior when multiple threads are blocked in
sigwaitinfo()/sigtimedwait().
SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3).
dirfd.3
mtk
RETURN VALUE: describe return value on success.
Add an ERRORS section documenting POSIX.1-specified errors.
getaddrinfo.3
mtk, after a note by Stephane Chazelas
getaddrinfo() supports specifying IPv6 scope-IDs.
getlogin.3
mtk
ERRORS: add ENOTTY.
SEE ALSO: add utmp(5).
getutent.3
WANG Cong
utmpname() does return a value.
mtk
Add paragraph to start of DESCRIPTION recommending
use of POSIX.1 "utmpx" functions.
CONFORMING TO: mention utmpxname().
Add an ERRORS section.
There are no utmpx equivalents of the _r reentrant functions.
Clarify discussion of return values.
Add pointer to definition of utmp structure in utmp(5).
Clarify discussion of utmpx file on other systems (versus
Linux situation).
getutent.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: add getutmp(3)
inet_pton.3
Stephane Chazelas
Fix error in description of IPv6 presentation format:
s/x.x.x.x.x.x.x.x/x:x:x:x:x:x:x:x/.
setbuf.3
Reuben Thomas / mtk
Fix confused wording for return value of setvbuf().
Fixes http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488104.
mtk
Other minor rewordings.
shm_open.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: add shm_overview(7).
random.4
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Slight rewording to make life easier for non-native English
speakers.
utmp.5
mtk
Add discussion of POSIX.1 utmpx specification.
Provide a little more detail on fields of utmp structure.
Added comments to macros for ut_type field.
Correct the description of the ut_id field.
mtk
Consolidate duplicated information about ut_tv and ut_session
on biarch platforms.
mtk
Move some text from CONFORMING TO to NOTES.
Removed some crufty text.
SEE ALSO: add login(3), logout(3), logwtmp(3).
UT_LINESIZE is 32 (not 12).
mtk
SEE ALSO: add getutmp(3)
man-pages.7
mtk
Enhanced the discussion of font conventions.
signal.7
mtk
Note that the delivery order of multiple pending standard
signals is unspecified.
SEE ALSO: Add sigwait(3).
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.03 ====================
Released: 2008-07-08, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
getcpu.2
Andi Kleen, with some text and edits by mtk
Documents the getcpu(2) system call, introduced in Linux 2.6.19.
sched_getcpu.3
mtk
Documents sched_getcpu(3), a wrapper for getcpu(2), provided
since glibc 2.6.
cpuset.7
Paul Jackson, with review and editing by mtk, and comments by
Hidetoshi Seto and Li Zefan
A description of the cpuset file system, the mechanism introduced
kernel 2.6.12 for confining processes to designated processors
and nodes. (Becomes the fourth largest page in man-pages!)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
readdir.3
mtk
Add documentation of readdir_r().
New links
---------
updwtmpx.3
Alain Portal
Link to updwtmp.3 (3.02 changelog wrongly said this had been done).
readdir_r.3
mtk
Link to readdir.3.
Global changes
--------------
get_mempolicy.2
mbind.2
sched_setaffinity.2
set_mempolicy.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add getcpu(2).
accept.2
close.2
connect.2
dup.2
epoll_wait.2
fcntl.2
flock.2
futex.2
msgop.2
poll.2
read.2
recv.2
select.2
semop.2
send.2
sigwaitinfo.2
spu_run.2
wait.2
write.2
aio_suspend.3
mq_receive.3
mq_send.3
scanf.3
sem_wait.3
usleep.3
inotify.7
mtk
ERRORS: Added reference to signal(7) in discussion of EINTR.
Various pages
mtk
Wrapped very long source lines.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
accept.2
mtk
Small wording change.
io_getevents.2
mtk
ERRORS: Add EINTR error.
open.2
mtk
ERRORS: Add EINTR error.
sigaction.2
mtk
Note circumstances in which each SA_* flag is meaningful.
mtk
Describe POSIX specification, and Linux semantics for
SA_NOCLDWAIT when establishing a handler for SIGCHLD.
mtk
Add pointer under SA_RESTART to new text in signal(7)
describing system call restarting.
mtk
Other minor edits.
truncate.2
mtk
ERRORS: Added EINTR error.
A few minor rewordings.
wait.2
mtk
Remove statement that WUNTRACED and WCONTINUED only have effect
if SA_NOCLDSTOP has not been set for SIGCHLD. That's not true.
errno.3
mtk
Add a pointer to signal(7) for further explanation of EINTR.
getgrouplist.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add passwd(5).
readdir.3
mtk
Remove <sys/types.h> from SYNOPSIS; POSIX.1-2001 does not
require it.
Some minor rewordings.
sleep.3
mtk
RETURN VALUE: explicitly mention interruption by signal handler.
SEE ALSO: add signal(7).
usleep.3
mtk
POSIX.1-2001 also only documents EINVAL.
group.5
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add getgrent(3), getgrnam(3).
passwd.5
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add getpwent(3), getpwnam(3).
proc.5
mtk
Add pointer to description of /proc/PID/cpuset in cpuset(7).
signal.7
mtk
Add a section describing system call restarting, and noting
which system calls are affected by SA_RESTART, and which
system calls are never restarted.
mtk
Describe the aberrant Linux behavior whereby a stop signal
plus SIGCONT can interrupt some system calls, even if no
signal handler has been established, and note the system
calls that behave this way.
mtk
Note a few more architectures on which signal numbers are valid.
SEE ALSO: added a number of pages.
mtk
Update async-signal-safe function list for POSIX.1-2004 (which
adds sockatmark()).
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.04 ====================
Released: 2008-07-15, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com>
Andreas Mohr <andi@lisas.de>
Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Erik Bosman <ejbosman@cs.vu.nl>
John Brooks <aspecialj@gmail.com>
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Web site
--------
licenses.html
mtk
A page describing the preferred licenses for new pages that
are contributed to man-pages.
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
utimensat.2
mtk
New page documenting the utimensat() system call, new in 2.6.22,
and futimens() library function.
end.3
mtk
Documents etext, edata, and end symbols.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
memchr.3
mtk
Add description of rawmemchr().
proc.5
mtk
Document /proc/config.gz (new in kernel 2.6).
mtk, based on text from Documentation/vm/sysctl.txt
Document /proc/sys/vm/oom_kill_allocating_task
(new in Linux 2.6.24).
Document /proc/sys/vm/oom_dump_tasks
(new in Linux 2.6.25).
Document /proc/sys/vm/panic_on_oom
(new in Linux 2.6.18).
New links
---------
edata.3
etext.3
mtk
Links to end.3.
futimens.3
mtk
Link to new utimensat.2.
getdate_err.3
mtk
Link to getdate.3.
h_errno.3
mtk
Link to gethostbyname.3.
optarg.3
opterr.3
optind.3
optopt.3
mtk
Links to getopt.3.
rawmemchr.3
mtk
Link to memchr.3.
sys_errlist.3
sys_nerr.3
mtk
Links to perror.3.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
s/parameter/argument/ when talking about the things given
to a function call, for consistency with majority usage.
Various pages
mtk
s/UNIX/Unix/, when not used as part of a trademark,
for consistency with majority usage in pages.
Various pages
mtk, after a note from Alain Portal
Put SEE ALSO entries into alphabetical order.
Various pages
mtk
Remove period at end of SEE ALSO list.
Various pages
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Even when the CONFORMING TO section is just a list of standards,
they should be terminated by a period.
getpriority.2
MB_LEN_MAX.3
MB_CUR_MAX.3
fwide.3
mblen.3
rtime.3
st.4
proc.5
bootparam.7
man-pages.7
utf-8.7
tcp.5
mtk / Alain Portal
Small wording fixes -- express <=, <, >=, > in words when in
running text.
sched_setparam.2
sched_setscheduler.2
getgrent_r.3
hash.3
mtk
Minor rewording w.r.t. use of the term "parameter".
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places. (Many, many thanks to Alain Portal!)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
capget.2
Andrew Morgan
Update in line with addition of file capabilities and
64-bit capability sets in kernel 2.6.2[45].
clock_nanosleep.2
mtk
Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS.
getrusage.2
Sripathi Kodi
Document RUSAGE_THREAD, new in 2.6.26.
mtk
Improve description of RUSAGE_CHILDREN.
Add pointer to /proc/PID/stat in proc(5).
Other minor clean-ups.
ioprio_set.2
Nikanth Karthikesan
Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is longer required to set
a low priority (IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE).
mount.2
mtk
Since Linux 2.6.26, MS_RDONLY honors bind mounts.
openat.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add utimensat(3).
prctl.2
Serge Hallyn, with some edits/input from mtk
Document PR_CAPBSET_READ and PR_CAPBSET_DROP.
Erik Bosman
Document PR_GET_TSC and PR_SET_TSC.
mtk, reviewed by Andrea Arcangeli
Document PR_SET_SECCOMP and PR_GET_SECCOMP.
mtk
PR_SET_KEEPCAPS and PR_GET_KEEPCAPS operate on a per-thread
setting, not a per-process setting.
mtk
Clarify fork(2) details for PR_SET_PDEATHSIG.
mtk
Add description of PR_SET_SECUREBITS and PR_GET_SECUREBITS,
as well as pointer to further info in capabilities(7).
mtk
PR_GET_ENDIAN returns endianness info in location pointed to by
arg2 (not as function result, as was implied by previous text).
mtk
Expand description of PR_SET_NAME and PR_GET_NAME.
mtk
RETURN VALUE: bring up to date for various options.
mtk
Various improvements in ERRORS.
mtk
Note that PR_SET_TIMING setting of PR_TIMING_TIMESTAMP is not
currently implemented.
mtk
Minor changes:
* Clarify wording for PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_FPEMU, and
PR_GET_FPEXC.
* Some reformatting of kernel version information.
* Reorder PR_GET_ENDIAN and PR_SET_ENDIAN entries.
readlinkat.2
John Brooks / mtk
Fix and reword erroneous RETURN VALUE text.
recv.2
mtk
Noted which flags appeared in Linux 2.2.
sched_setaffinity.2
mtk, after a Fedora downstream patch
Update type used for cpusetsize argument in SYNOPSIS.
select.2
Andreas Mohr / mtk
Clarify "zero timeout" case.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=490868.
send.2
mtk
Noted which flags appeared in Linux 2.2.
sigaction.2
mtk
Document si_overrun and si_tid fields of siginfo structure.
Add some text for si_trapno field.
The si_errno field is *generally* unused.
mtk
Put descriptions of SA_* constants in alphabetical order.
signal.2
mtk
Rewrote and expanded portability discussion.
NOTES: Show the raw prototype of signal() (without use of
sighandler_t).
signalfd.2
mtk
Modify description of ssi_trapno field.
swapon.2
mtk
Fix two version number typos for MAX_SWAPFILES discussion:
s/2.6.10/2.4.10/
utime.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add utimensat(2), futimens(3).
dl_iterate_phdr.3
Alain Portal
SEE ALSO: Add elf(5).
crypt.3
mtk, after a Fedora downstream patch
Describe additional encryption algorithms.
See also: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428280.
errno.3
mtk
Small rewrites in DESCRIPTION.
exec.3
mtk, after a note from Alain Portal
Small rewording.
exp10.3
Alain Portal
SEE ALSO: Add log10(3).
exp2.3
Alain Portal
Add C99 to CONFORMING TO.
fgetgrent.3
Alain Portal
Add references to group(5).
mtk
Minor rewordings.
SEE ALSO: add fopen(3).
fgetpwent.3
Alain Portal
Add reference to passwd(5).
mtk
Minor rewordings.
SEE ALSO: add fopen(3).
frexp.3
Alain Portal
Add C99 to CONFORMING TO.
futimes.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: remove futimesat(2); add utimensat(2).
getopt.3
mtk
Add details on initial value of optind, and note that it can
be reset (to 1) to restart scanning of an argument vector.
Add a NOTES section describing the glibc-specific behavior
when optind is reset to 0 (rather than 1).
See http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.programmer/browse_thread/thread/be0d0b7a07a165fb
mtk
Note glibc extensions under CONFORMING TO.
getspnam.3
mtk
Improve comments on struct spwd.
getpw.3
Alain Portal
RETURN VALUE: note that errno is set on error.
mtk
Add EINVAL error.
insque.3
mtk / Alain Portal
Minor rewordings.
log.3
Alain Portal
Remove unnecessary sentence in ERRORS.
log10.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add exp10(3).
offsetof.3
Alain Portal
Small wording improvement.
pow.3
Alain Portal
Remove unnecessary sentence in ERRORS.
printf.3
mtk / Alain Portal
Many small formatting fixes.
proc.5
mtk
Remove redundant summary list of files in description of
/proc/sys/kernel.
Make kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops more precise.
Make kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max more precise.
Add Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt to SEE ALSO.
Other minor edits.
profil.3
mtk / Alain Portal
Small wording improvement.
rtime.3
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Clarify meaning of midnight on 1 Jan 1900/1970.
mtk
Remove netdate(1) and rdate(1) from SEE ALSO, since these pages
don't seem to exist on Linux systems.
scanf.3
Vincent Lefevre / mtk
Clarify treatment of initial white space by %% conversion
specification.
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=435648.
mtk
Many small formatting fixes.
stdin.3
Alain Portal
Rename CONSIDERATIONS section to NOTES, and relocate
to appropriate place on page.
tmpfile.3
mtk, after a note by Alain Portal
Prepend "POSIX.1-2001 specifies that: " to the sentence stating
that tmpfile() may write to stdout. (AFAICS, glibc's tmpfile()
does not do this.)
ttyname.3
Alain Portal
Remove unnecessary sentence in ERRORS.
wcsdup.3
Alain Portal
Make wording more precise: the memory allocated by wcsdup(3)
*should* be freed with free(3).
wordexp.3
Alain Portal / mtk
Move example into proper EXAMPLE section.
tty_ioctl.4
mtk / Petr Gajdos
The features in the "Get and Set Window Size" subsection
require the inclusion of <sys/ioctl.h>.
capabilities.7
Serge Hallyn, plus a bit of work by mtk
Document file capabilities, per-process capability bounding set,
changed semantics for CAP_SETPCAP, and other changes in 2.6.2[45].
Add CAP_MAC_ADMIN, CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE, CAP_SETFCAP.
Various smaller fixes.
mtk, plus review by Serge Hallyn and Andrew Morgan
Add text detailing how CAP_SETPCAP (theoretically) permits -- on
pre-2.6.25 kernels, and 2.6.25 and later kernels with file
capabilities disabled -- a thread to change the capability sets
of another thread.
Add section describing rules for programmatically adjusting
thread capability sets.
Add some words describing purpose of inheritable set.
Note existence of CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES config option.
Describe rationale for capability bounding set.
Document securebits flags (new in 2.6.26).
Remove obsolete BUGS section.
SEE ALSO: Add getcap(8), setcap(8), and various libcap pages.
mtk
Add text noting that if we set the effective flag for one
file capability, then we must also set the effective flag for all
other capabilities where the permitted or inheritable bit is set.
mtk
Since Linux 2.6.25, CAP_SYS_ADMIN is no longer required for
ioprio_set() to set IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE class.
mtk
Reword discussion of CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE to be file-system neutral.
man-pages.7
mtk
A list of standards in the CONFORMING TO list should be
terminated by a period.
The list of pages in a SEE ALSO list should not be
terminated by a period.
tcp.7
mtk
Correct a detail for sysctl_tcp_adv_win_scale.
Formatting fixes.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.05 ====================
Released: 2008-07-23, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
Franck Jousseaume <franck.jousseaume@gmail.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Uli Schlacter <psychon@znc.in>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
matherr.3
mtk, with review by Andries Brouwer
A description of the SVID-specified mechanism for reporting
math exceptions.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/266.
math_error.7
mtk, with review and suggested input from Andries Brouwer
A description of how math functions report errors.
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/249.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively.
Various pages
mtk
For consistency with majority usage:
s/plus infinity/positive infinity/
s/minus infinity/negative infinity/
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
brk.2
mtk
SEE ALSO: add end(3).
open.2
Brian M. Carlson / mtk
Remove ambiguity in description of support for O_EXCL on NFS.
As per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=491791.
prctl.2
mtk
Place options in some semblance of alphabetical order.
(No content or formatting changes were made.)
cerf.3
mtk
Bump version number: these functions are still missing in
glibc 2.8.
fenv.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).
INFINITY.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).
nan.3
mtk
Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece in SYNOPSIS.
SEE ALSO: Add math_error(7).
rpc.3
mtk / Franck Jousseaume
Fix errors introduced into a few prototypes when converting
function declarations to use modern C prototypes in man-pages-2.75.
ipv6.7
mtk, after a report from Uli Schlacter
Document the IPV6_V6ONLY flag.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.06 ====================
Released: 2008-08-05, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
Gernot Tenchio <g.tenchio@telco-tech.de>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
erfc.3
mtk
Created after removing the erfc() material from erf.3.
Documents the complementary error function.
y0.3
mtk
Created after removing the y*() material from j0.3.
Documents the Bessel functions of the second kind.
Included ERRORS section; noted that an exception is not
raised on underflow, see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6806;
and errno is not set on overflow, see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6808;
Included BUGS section noting that errno is incorrectly
set for pole error; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6807.
scalbln.3
mtk
Created after removing the scalbln*() and scalbn*() material
from scalb.3. Documents scalbln() and scalbn() functions.
Included ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6803.
New and changed links
---------------------
erfcf.3
erfcl.3
mtk
Changed these links to point to new erfc.3 page.
scalblnf.3
scalblnl.3
scalbn.3
scalbnf.3
scalbnl.3
mtk
Changed these links to point to new scalbln.3 page.
y0f.3
y0l.3
y1.3
y1f.3
y1l.3
yn.3
ynf.3
ynl.3
mtk
Changed these links to point to new y0.3 page.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
s/floating point/floating-point/ when used attributively.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
crypt.3
mtk
Tweak discuss text describing support for Blowfish.
ctime.3
mtk / Gernot Tenchio
Added some words to make clear that the string returned by
ctime() and asctime() is null-terminated.
math_error.7
Sam Varshavchik
Reverse order of SYNOPSIS and NAME sections.
mtk
NOTES: Summarize the state of glibc support for exceptions
and errno for error reporting.
Changes to individual pages (math functions)
--------------------------------------------
Almost all of the changes in this release relate to math man pages.
Very many changes were made to the math pages, including:
* Fixed feature test macros (FTMs). Often, the FTM requirements
for the "float" and "long double" versions of a math function are
different from the requirements for the "double" version. Each math
page now shows the correct FTM requirements for all three versions
of the function(s) it describes. This may have required either
a change to the existing FTM text (if the requirements for the
"double" function were already described), or the addition of an FTM
description to a SYNOPSIS where one was not previously present
(typically because the "double" version of the function does not
require any FTMs to be defined).
* CONFORMING TO: in many cases, POSIX.1-2001 was not mentioned.
Where a function is specified in POSIX.1-2001, this is now noted.
Also, statements about what other standards a function conforms to
were generally clarified. (The wording about which functions conformed
to C99 was previously often done as an add on sentence; now it is made
part of the first sentence of the CONFORMING TO section, along with
POSIX.1-2001.)
* RETURN VALUE: in many cases, pages lacked descriptions of the return
value when the function arguments are special values such as +0, -0,
NaN (not-a-number), +infinity, -infinity, etc. This has been fixed.
I carried out tests on glibc 2.8 to ensure that all of these
functions match the RETURN VALUE descriptions (and the POSIX.1-2001
requirements).
* ERRORS: many pages lacked a clear (or indeed any) description of
how errno is set on error and what exception is raised for each error.
This has been fixed. The ERRORS sections are now generally headed up
as per the POSIX.1 way of doing things, describing Pole / Range /
Domain errors, as applicable.
I carried out tests on glibc 2.8 to ensure that all of these
functions match the ERRORS descriptions. Deviations from POSIX.1-2001
requirements have been filed as glibc bug reports, and noted in the
man pages. (The pages now describe the situation for ERRORS as at glibc
2.8; I may eventually try and extend the text with descriptions of
changes in older versions of glibc.)
NOTE: one point that has not been covered in any page is the
circumstances that generate inexact (FE_INEXACT) exceptions.
(The details for these exceptions are not specified in POSIX.1-2001,
and I haven't gone looking for the standards that describe the details.)
acos.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
acosh.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
asin.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
asinh.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
atan.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
atan2.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
atanh.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
Added BUGS section noting that pole error sets errno to EDOM,
when it should be ERANGE instead; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6759.
cbrt.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
ceil.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Enhanced.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
NOTES: Added some details.
copysign.3
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
cos.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Rewrote RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted errno is not set:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6780.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
cosh.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
erf.3
mtk
Removed the erfc() material (there is now a new erfc page).
Reason: the functions are logically separate; also their
return values differ, and it would have been confusing
to document them on the same page.
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6785.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
exp.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6786.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
exp10.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set for underflow;
see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6787.
exp2.3
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
expm1.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set for overflow;
see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6788.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
Added BUGS section, describing bogus underflow exception for -large,
see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6778;
and describing bogus invalid exception for certain +large,
see http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6814.
fabs.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fdim.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6796.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fenv.3
mtk
Make style of writing exception names consistent with other
pages and POSIX.1-2001.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
finite.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
floor.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Enhanced.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fma.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: Some rewording.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6801.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fmax.3
fmin.3
mtk
NAME: Make description clearer
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
SYNOPSIS: Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
fmod.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6783.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fpclassify.3
mtk
Minor wording changes.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
SEE ALSO: Add signbit(3).
frexp.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added details to RETURN VALUE section.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
gamma.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added (null) RETURN VALUE section referring to tgamma(3).
Added (null) ERRORS section referring to tgamma(3).
CONFORMING TO: Rewrote.
hypot.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: note that calculation is done without causing
undue overflow or underflow.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6795.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
ilogb.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Rewrote RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set, and in some
cases an exception is not raised; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6794.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
isgreater.3
mtk
NAME: Make description clearer
Improve the description of isunordered().
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
Formatting fixes.
A few wording improvements.
j0.3
mtk
Removed material for the y*() functions to a separate y0.3 page.
Reason: the return values and errors/exceptions differ, and it
would have been confusing to document them on the same page.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6805.
ldexp.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
lgamma.3
mtk
Note that these functions are deprecated.
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections referring to lgamma(3).
Added BUGS section noting that pole error sets errno to EDOM,
when it should be ERANGE instead; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6777.
log.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
log10.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
log1p.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6792.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
log2.3
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
logb.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: added a little detail; some rewordings.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6793.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
lrint.3
mtk
DESCRIPTION: some rewording.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6798.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
lround.3
mtk
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6797.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
modf.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
nan.3
mtk
Small wording changes.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
nextafter.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6799.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
pow.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
Added BUGS section noting that pole error sets errno to EDOM,
when it should be ERANGE instead; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6776.
remainder.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: added some details.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6783.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
Added BUGS section noting that remainder(nan(""), 0)
wrongly causes a domain error; see
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6779
remquo.3
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6801.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fmax.3
fmin.3
mtk
NAME: Make description clearer
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
SYNOPSIS: Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
Added RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections.
fmod.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not always set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6783.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
fpclassify.3
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
rint.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: added some details.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
ERRORS: no errors can occur (previous text was misleading).
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES: point out that lrint() may be preferred in some cases.
round.3
mtk
DESCRIPTION: added some details.
RETURN VALUE: Added details for special argument cases.
ERRORS: no errors can occur (previous text was misleading).
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES: point out that lround() may be preferred in some cases.
scalb.3
mtk
Removed the scalbn() and scalbln() material to a separate
scalbln.3 page. Reason: scalb() is obsolete; also the
exception/error conditions differ somewhat, so that it
would have been confusing to document them on the same page.
SYNOPSIS: Fixed feature test macro requirements.
DESCRIPTION: some rewrites and added details.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set; see
also http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6803
and http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6804.
CONFORMING TO: Rewrote.
signbit.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
SYNOPSIS: Remove unneeded "Compile with" piece.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
sin.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section; noted errno is not set:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6781.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
sincos.3
mtk
DESCRIPTION: Added details for special argument cases.
Added (null) RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section.
sinh.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
sqrt.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
tan.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added ERRORS section.
Added ERRORS section; noted errno is not set:
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6782.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
tanh.3
mtk
SYNOPSIS: Added feature test macro requirements.
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Added (null) ERRORS section.
Updated CONFORMING TO.
tgamma.3
mtk
Added RETURN VALUE section.
Rewrote ERRORS section; noted that errno is not set /
incorrectly set in some cases; see also
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6809
and http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6810.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
Added NOTES section to hold text explaining origin of tgamma().
trunc.3
mtk
RETURN VALUE: small rewording.
CONFORMING TO: Added POSIX.1-2001.
Added NOTES section explaining that result may be too large
to store in an integer type.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.07 ====================
Released: 2008-08-12, Konolfingen
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alain Portal <aportal@univ-montp2.fr>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Fabian Kreutz <kreutz@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
Filippo Santovito <filippo.santovito@email.it>
Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Heikki Orsila <shd@modeemi.cs.tut.fi>
Khalil GHORBAL <khalil.ghorbal@cea.fr>
Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Soh Kam Yung <sohkamyung@gmail.com>
Stephane Chazelas <stephane_chazelas@yahoo.fr>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
move_pages.2
Christoph Lameter, various edits and improvements by mtk
Documentation of the move_pages() system call.
This page was formerly part of the numactl package, but really
belongs in man-pages (since it describes a kernel interface).
clock_getcpuclockid.3
mtk
New page documenting the clock_getcpuclockid() library function,
available since glibc 2.2.
udplite.7
Gerrit Renker
Document the Linux implementation of the UDP-Lite protocol,
new in Linux 2.6.20.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
proc.5
Christoph Lameter, minor edits and improvements by mtk
Documentation of the /proc/PID/numa_maps file.
This material was formerly the numa_maps.5 page in the numactl
package, but really belongs in man-pages (since it describes
a kernel interface).
Global changes
--------------
nanosleep.2
inet_ntop.3
inet_pton.3
scanf.3
initrd.4
mtk
Fix mis-ordered (.SH) sections.
connect.2
socket.2
rtnetlink.3
arp.7
ddp.7
ip.7
ipv6.7
netlink.7
packet.7
raw.7
rtnetlink.7
socket.7
tcp.7
udp.7
unix.7
x25.7
mtk
s/PF_/AF_/ for socket family constants. Reasons: the AF_ and
PF_ constants have always had the same values; there never has
been a protocol family that had more than one address family,
and POSIX.1-2001 only specifies the AF_* constants.
Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several
other places.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
execve.2
mtk
The floating-point environment is reset to the default
during an execve().
get_mempolicy.2
Lee Schermerhorn
Misc cleanup of get_mempolicy(2):
+ mention that any mode flags will be saved with mode.
I don't bother to document mode flags here because we
already have a pointer to set_mempolicy(2) for more info
on memory policy. mode flags are discussed there.
+ remove some old, obsolete [IMO] NOTES and 'roff comments.
Lee Schermerhorn
Update the get_mempolicy(2) man page to add in the description of
the MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED flag, added in 2.6.23.
mtk
Document additional EINVAL error that occurs is MPOL_F_MEMS_ALLOWED
is specified with either MPOL_F_ADDR or MPOL_F_NODE.
getitimer.2
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks getitimer() and setitimer()
obsolete.
mbind.2
Lee Schermerhorn
Fix error conditions, now that the kernel silently ignores
nodes outside the task's cpuset, as long as one valid node
remains.
Now that cpuset man page exists, we can refer to it. Remove
stale comment regarding lack thereof.
Lee Schermerhorn
Add brief discussion of mode flags.
Lee Schermerhorn
Attempt to clarify discussion of MPOL_DEFAULT.
mtk
Fix URI reference for libnuma.
mprotect.2
mtk / Maxin John
Remove EFAULT from errors. Under ENOMEM error, note that
EFAULT was the error produced in some cases for kernels before
2.4.19.
msgctl.2
mtk, after a note from Filippo Santovito
In the ipc_perm structure definition, some fields were
incorrectly named: s/key/__key/ and s/seq/__seq/.
set_mempolicy.2
Lee Schermerhorn
Fix up the error return for nodemask containing nodes disallowed by
the process' current cpuset. Disallowed nodes are now silently ignored,
as long as the nodemask contains at least one node that is on-line,
allowed by the process' cpuset and has memory.
Now that we have a cpuset man page, we can refer to cpusets directly
in the man page text.
Lee Schermerhorn
Another attempt to rationalize description of MPOL_DEFAULT.
Since ~2.6.25, the system default memory policy is "local allocation".
MPOL_DEFAULT itself is a request to remove any non-default policy and
"fall back" to the surrounding context. Try to say that without delving
into implementation details.
Lee Schermerhorn
Add discussion of mempolicy mode flags to set_mempolicy(2).
This adds another reason for EINVAL.
setpgid.2
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks setpgrp() obsolete.
semctl.2
mtk, after a note from Filippo Santovito
In the ipc_perm structure definition, some fields were
incorrectly named: s/key/__key/ and s/seq/__seq/.
shmctl.2
Filippo Santovito / mtk
In the ipc_perm structure definition, some fields were
incorrectly named: s/key/__key/ and s/seq/__seq/.
utime.2
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks utime() obsolete.
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the POSIX.1-2001 LEGACY
marking of utimes(), so mention of this point has been
removed from the page.
vfork.2
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of vfork().
atan2.3
Fabian Kreutz
SEE ALSO Add carg(3).
bcmp.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bcmp().
bsd_signal.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification ofcw
bsd_signal().
bzero.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of bzero().
cexp2.3
mtk
AVAILABILITY: These functions are still not in glibc
as at version 2.8.
clock_getres.3
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add clock_getcpuclockid(3).
clog2.3
mtk
AVAILABILITY: These functions are still not in glibc
as at version 2.8.
ctime.3
mtk
POSIX.1-2008 marks asctime(), asctime_r(), ctime(), and ctime_r()
as obsolete.
dprintf.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: These functions are nowadays in POSIX.1-2008.
ecvt.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
ecvt() and fcvt().
ftime.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of ftime().
ftw.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks ftw() as obsolete.
gcvt.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of gcvt().
getcwd.3
Reuben Thomas / mtk
Clarify description of getcwd() for buf==NULL case;
CONFORMING TO: According to POSIX.1, the behavior of getcwd()
is unspecified for the buf==NULL case.
mtk
Add an introductory paragraph giving an overview of what these
functions do.
Fix error in description of getwd(): it does not truncate the
pathname; rather, it gives an error if the pathname exceeds
PATH_MAX bytes.
Rewrote RETURN VALUE section.
Add EINVAL ENAMETOOLONG errors for getwd().
Various other clarifications and wording fixes.
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2001 does not define any errors for
getwd().
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of getwd().
gethostbyname.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(), and h_errno.
gets.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of gets().
iconv.3
iconv_close.3
iconv_open.3
mtk
VERSIONS: These functions are available in glibc since version 2.1.
index.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
index() and rindex().
isalpha.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks isalpha() as obsolete.
makecontext.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specifications of
makecontext() and swapcontext().
memchr.3
mtk
VERSIONS: memrchr() since glibc 2.2; rawmemchr() since glibc 2.1.
mempcpy.3
mtk
VERSIONS: mempcpy() since glibc 2.1.
mktemp.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of mktemp().
opendir.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 specifies fdopendir().
rand.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks rand_r() as obsolete.
siginterrupt.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks siginterrupt() as obsolete.
sigset.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks sighold(), sigignore(),
sigpause(), sigrelse(), and sigset() as obsolete.
strchr.3
mtk
VERSIONS: strchrnul() since glibc 2.1.1.
tempnam.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks tempnam() as obsolete.
tmpnam.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks tmpnam() as obsolete.
toascii.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks toascii() as obsolete.
ualarm.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of ualarm().
ulimit.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks ulimit() as obsolete.
usleep.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of usleep().
standards.7
mtk
Updated details for POSIX.1-2008, and noted that if
POSIX.1-2001 is listed in the CONFORMING TO section of a man
page, then the reader can assume that the interface is also
specified in POSIX.1-2008, unless otherwise noted.
time.7
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add clock_getcpuclockid(3).
udp.7
mtk
SEE ALSO: add udplite(7).
Changes to individual pages (math functions)
--------------------------------------------
Various changes here following on from the big update to the
math pages in the previous release. Test results going back
glibc 2.3.2 (so far) allowed updates to various pages to note
changes in historical behavior for error reporting by math
functions. Thanks to the following people for providing me
with test results on various distributions and glibc versions:
Alain Portal, Andries Brouwer, Fabian Kreutz, Heikki Orsila,
Khalil GHORBAL, Pavel Heimlich, Reuben Thomas, Samuel Thibault,
Soh Kam Yung, and Stephane Chazelas
cabs.3
cacos.3
cacosh.3
carg.3
casin.3
casinh.3
catan.3
catanh.3
ccos.3
ccosh.3
cexp.3
cimag.3
clog.3
clog10.3
conj.3
cpow.3
cproj.3
creal.3
csin.3
csinh.3
csqrt.3
ctan.3
ctanh.3
exp10.3
exp2.3
fdim.3
fenv.3
fma.3
fmax.3
fmin.3
log2.3
lrint.3
lround.3
nan.3
pow10.3
remquo.3
round.3
scalbln.3
sincos.3
tgamma.3
trunc.3
mtk
Added VERSIONS section noting that these functions first
appeared in glibc in version 2.1.
cosh.3
mtk
BUGS: In glibc 2.3.4 and earlier, an FE_OVERFLOW exception is not
raised when an overflow occurs.
fenv.3
mtk / Fabian Kreuz
Provide more detail in the description of rounding modes.
Add text describing FLT_ROUNDS (formerly in fma.3).
Add BUGS section pointing out the FLT_ROUNDS does not reflect
changes by fesetround().
fma.3
mtk
Remove text about FLT_ROUNDS, replacing with a cross-reference
to fenv(3).
fpclassify.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: Note that the standards provide a weaker guarantee
for the return value of isinf().
log.3
mtk
BUGS: In glibc 2.5 and earlier, log(nan("")) produces a bogus
FE_INVALID exception.
lround.3
mtk
Add reference to fenv(3) for discussion of current rounding mode.
nextafter.3
mtk
BUGS: In glibc 2.5 and earlier these functions do not raise an
FE_UNDERFLOW exception on underflow.
pow.3
mtk
BUGS: described buggy NaN return when x is negative and y is large.
See also: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3866.
BUGS: Note the bogus FE_INVALID exception that occurred in glibc
2.3.2 and earlier on overflow and underflow.
remainder.3
mtk
Add reference to fenv(3) for discussion of current rounding mode.
round.3
mtk
Add reference to fenv(3) for discussion of current rounding mode.
scalb.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of scalb().
tgamma.3
mtk
BUGS: In glibc 2.3.3, tgamma(+-0) produced a domain error
instead of a pole error.
y0.3
mtk
In glibc 2.3.2 and earlier, these functions do not raise an
FE_INVALID exception for a domain error.
math_error.7
mtk
Rewrite introductory paragraph.
Point out that a NaN is commonly returned by functions that report
a domain error.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.08 ====================
Released: 2008-08-27, Zurich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Mike Bianchi <MBianchi@foveal.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Venkatesh Srinivas <me@acm.jhu.edu>
Vijay Kumar <vijaykumar@bravegnu.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
getnetent_r.3
mtk
Documents getnetent_r(), getnetbyname_r(),
and getnetbyaddr_r(), the reentrant equivalents of
getnetent(), getnetbyname(), and getnetbyaddr().
getprotoent_r.3
mtk
Documents getprotoent_r(), getprotobyname_r(), and
getprotobynumber_r(), the reentrant equivalents of
getprotoent(), getprotobyname(), and getprotobynumber().
getrpcent_r.3
mtk
Documents getrpcent_r(), getrpcbyname_r(), and
getrpcbynumber_r(), the reentrant equivalents of
getrpcent(), getrpcbyname(), and getrpcbynumber().
getservent_r.3
mtk
Documents getservent_r(), getservbyname_r(), and
getservbyport_r(), the reentrant equivalents of
getservent(), getservbyname(), and getservbyport().
numa.7
mtk
A new page giving overview details for the Linux NUMA interfaces.
Incorporates some material from mbind.2, and the description
of /proc/PID/numa_maps from proc.5.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
crypt.3
mtk
Add description of crypt_r().
New and changed links
---------------------
crypt.3
mtk
New link to crypt.3.
getnetbyname_r.3
getnetbyaddr_r.3
mtk
New links to new getnetent_r.3.
getprotobyname_r.3
getprotobynumber_r.3
mtk
New links to new getprotoent_r.3.
getrpcbyname_r.3
getrpcbynumber_r.3
mtk
New links to new getrpcent_r.3.
getservbyname_r.3
getservbyport_r.3
mtk
New links to new getservent_r.3.
numa_maps.5
mtk
Link to new numa(7) page, which incorporates the
/proc/PID/numa_maps description.
As part of the numactl() package, the /proc/PID/numa_maps
documentation was in a numa_maps.5 page; this link
ensures that "man 5 numa_maps" still works.
(Eventually, we may want to remove this link.)
Global changes
--------------
get_mempolicy.2
mbind.2
move_pages.2
set_mempolicy.2
mtk
Add reference to numa(7) for information on library support.
Added a VERSIONS section.
SEE ALSO: Add numa(7).
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
fchownat.2
fstatat.2
mkdirat.2
mknodat.2
linkat.2
openat.2
readlinkat.2
renameat.2
symlinkat.2
unlinkat.2
mkfifoat.3
psignal.3
strsignal.3
mtk
These interfaces are specified in POSIX.1-2008.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
eventfd.2
Vijay Kumar
When an eventfd overflows, select() indicates the file as both
readable and writable (not as having an exceptional condition).
fcntl.2
mtk
F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC is specified in POSIX.1-2008.
getrlimit.2
mtk
NOTES: Add text mentioning the shell 'ulimit' (or 'limit')
built-in command for setting resource limits.
gettimeofday.2
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 marks gettimeofday() as obsolete.
link.2
mtk
Note kernel version where Linux stopped following symbolic
links in 'oldpath'; see also http://lwn.net/Articles/294667.
POSIX.1-2008 makes it implementation-dependent whether or not
'oldpath' is dereferenced if it is a symbolic link.
Add a reference to linkat(2) for an interface that allows
precise control of the treatment of symbolic links.
mbind.2
mtk
Remove material on library support and numactl; that material
is now in numactl.7.
mmap.2
mtk
Add kernel version numbers for MAP_32BIT.
Add some details on MAP_32BIT (see http://lwn.net/Articles/294642).
move_pages.2
mtk
Added VERSIONS (from kernel 2.6.18) and CONFORMING TO sections.
open.2
mtk
O_CLOEXEC is specified in POSIX.1-2008.
socket.2
mtk
s/d/domain/ for name of argument.
Add reference to socket(2) for further information on
domain, type, and protocol arguments.
utimensat.2
mtk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 specifies utimensat() and futimens().
dirfd.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008; other minor changes.
exec.3
mtk
Small rewording: "s/returned/failed with/ [an error]".
fmemopen.3
mtk
Since glibc 2.7, it is possible to seek past the end of
a stream created by open_memstream(). Add a BUGS section
describing the bug in earlier glibc versions.
gethostbyname.3
mtk
Clarify exactly which functions are obsoleted by getnameinfo()
and getaddrinfo().
getnetent.3
mtk
Rephrase description in terms of a database, rather than a file.
Note that each of the get*() functions opens a connection to
the database if necessary.
The database connection is held open between get*() calls if
'stayopen' is non-zero (not necessarily 1).
s/zero terminated list/NULL-terminated list/
mtk
In glibc 2.2, the type of the 'net' argument for getnetbyaddr()
changed from 'long' to 'uint32_t'.
mtk
Note that the gethostbyaddr() 'net' argument is in host byte order.
mtk
RETURN VALUE: emphasize that returned pointer points to a
statically allocated structure.
SEE ALSO: add getnetent_r.3.
getprotoent.3
mtk
Rephrase description in terms of a database, rather than a file.
Note that each of the get*() functions opens a connection to
the database if necessary.
The database connection is held open between get*() calls if
'stayopen' is non-zero (not necessarily 1).
s/zero terminated list/NULL-terminated list/
mtk
RETURN VALUE: emphasize that returned pointer points to a
statically allocated structure.
SEE ALSO: add getprotoent_r.3.
getrpcent.3
mtk
s/rpc/RPC/.
Rephrase description in terms of a database, rather than a file.
Note that each of the get*() functions opens a connection to
the database if necessary.
s/zero terminated list/NULL-terminated list/
mtk
RETURN VALUE: emphasize that returned pointer points to a
statically allocated structure.
SEE ALSO: add getrpcent_r.3.
getservent.3
mtk
Rephrase description in terms of a database, rather than a file.
Note that each of the get*() functions opens a connection to
the database if necessary.
The database connection is held open between get*() calls if
'stayopen' is non-zero (not necessarily 1).
s/zero terminated list/NULL-terminated list/
mtk
RETURN VALUE: emphasize that returned pointer points to a
statically allocated structure.
SEE ALSO: add getservent_r.3.
mkdtemp.3
mtk
CONFORMING TO: this function is specified in POSIX.1-2008.
mq_notify.3
Venkatesh Srinivas
s/sigev_notify_function/sigev_thread_function/
as per http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=494956.
realpath.3
mtk
Relocate text for resolved_path==NULL case to DESCRIPTION.
POSIX.1-2001 leaves the resolved_path==NULL case as
implementation-defined; POSIX.1-2008 specifies the behavior
described in this man page.
sem_init.3
mtk
POSIX.1-2008 rectifies the POSIX.1-2001 omission, specifying
that zero is returned by a successful sem_init() call.
core.5
Mike Bianchi / mtk
Make the page more helpful to non-programmers by referencing
the documentation of the shell's 'ulimit' command in the
discussion of RLIMIT_CORE and RLIMIT_FSIZE.
SEE ALSO: Add bash(1).
mtk
Note that a core dump file can be used in a debugger.
proc.5
mtk
Remove /proc/PID/numa_maps material (it is now in numa(7)).
cpuset.7
mtk
SEE ALSO: Add numa(7).
inotify.7
mtk / Li Zefan
Explain bug that occurred in coalescing identical events in
kernels before 2.6.25.
(See commit 1c17d18e3775485bf1e0ce79575eb637a94494a2
"A potential bug in inotify_user.c" in the 2.6.25 Changelog.)
pthreads.7
mtk
Update thread-safe functions list with changes in POSIX.1-2008.
SEE ALSO: add proc(5).
signal.7
mtk
Update list of async-signal-safe functions for POSIX.1-2008.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.09 ====================
Released: 2008-09-10, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Bernd Eckenfels <be-mail2006@lina.inka.de>
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Carsten Emde <Carsten.Emde@osadl.org>
Christopher Head <chead@telus.net>
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Michael Schurter <michael@susens-schurter.com>
Mike Bianchi <MBianchi@foveal.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Suka <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Timothy S. Nelson <wayland@wayland.id.au>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
fopencookie.3
mtk
Document fopencookie(3), a library function that allows
custom implementation of a stdio stream.
networks.5
Martin (Joey) Schulze, with a few light edits by mtk
Documents the /etc/networks file.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
mtk
s/time zone/timezone/ for consistency across pages and
with POSIX.1.
kill.2
sigaction.2
sigpending.2
sigprocmask.2
sigsuspend.2
confstr.3
ctermid.3
ctime.3
ferror.3
flockfile.3
fopen.3
getaddrinfo.3
getgrnam.3
getnameinfo.3
getopt.3
getpwnam.3
longjmp.3
popen.3
rand.3
readdir.3
setjmp.3
sigsetops.3
sigwait.3
strtok.3
tzset.3
unlocked_stdio.3
mtk
Add/fix feature test macro requirements.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fcntl.2
mtk, after a note by Mike Bianchi
More clearly and consistently describe whether
or not the third argument to fcntl() is required,
and what its type should be.
mtk
Move description of negative l_len from NOTES, integrating
it into the discussion of file locking.
Minor rewrites of the text on file locking.
getrusage.2
Bernd Eckenfels
SEE ALSO: Add clock(3), clock_gettime(3).
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353475
ioctl_list.2
mtk
Remove old sentence about where to send updates for this page.
Add more detail on mount options that prevent updates to atime.
sched_setscheduler.2
Carsten Emde
Update kernel version numbers relating to real-time support.
stat.2
H. Peter Anvin
Note that lstat() will generally not trigger automounter
action, whereas stat() will.
clock.3
Bernd Eckenfels
SEE ALSO: Add clock_gettime(3).
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353475
clock_getres.3
Tolga Dalman / mtk
Add "Link with -lrt" to SYNOPSIS; remove now redundant
sentence mentioning librt from NOTES.
getdate.3
mtk
Rewrite description of getdate_r() and integrate into main text
(rather than describing in NOTES).
Other parts rewritten for greater clarity.
Make it clearer in the main text that glibc does not implement %Z;
remove discussion of that point from NOTES.
Added an example program.
hsearch.3
mtk
Noted that table size as specified by 'nel' is immutable.
Described differences between hsearch() and hsearch_r().
Added missing pieces to RETURN VALUE.
Added a number of new entries under ERRORS.
NOTES: added some basic advice on sizing the hash table;
noted that when a table is destroyed, the caller is responsible
for freeing the buffers pointed to by 'key' and 'data' fields.
One of the BUGS was fixed in glibc 2.3.
Rewrote and clarified various other pieces.
Rename arguments for reentrant functions, using same name as
glibc headers: s/ret/retval/; s/tab/htab/.
mtk, after a suggestion by Timothy S. Nelson
Integrate discussion of reentrant functions into main discussion
(rather than as a short paragraph at the end).
iconv.3
Bruno Haible
Describe "shift sequence" input.
ptsname.3
sukadev
Fix return type of ptsname_r() in SYNOPSIS.
readdir.3
H. Peter Anvin
s/stat(2)/lstat(2)/ when discussing d_type (since we
are talking about a case where we might be interested to
whether the file itself is a symbolic link).
sigsetops.3
Chris Head, signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger
Fix typo: s/sigdelset/sigorset/
proc.5
Mats Wichmann / mtk
s/\[number]/[pid]/ in file names for /proc/PID files.
And similar changes for task/[tid] sub-directories.
mtk / Mats Wichmann
In the description if /proc/[pid]/environ, remove reference to
lilo(8)/grub(8) since there seems to be nothing in those pages
that related to this /proc file.
Michael Schurter / mtk
Remove sentence wrongly saying that /proc/meminfo reports
info in bytes;
see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462969
mtk
Note that /proc/meminfo reports system-wide memory usage
statistics.
Joe Korty
Document new fields in /proc/interrupts that were added in
Linux 2.6.24.
unix.7
Marko Kreen
Since glibc 2.8, _GNU_SOURCE must be defined in order to get
the definition of the ucred structure from <sys/socket.h>.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.10 ====================
Released: 2008-09-23, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
closedir.3
dirfd.3
readdir.3
rewinddir.3
scandir.3
seekdir.3
telldir.3
mtk
Fix 'dir' argument name: should be 'dirp'.
POSIX.1-2008 and glibc call this argument 'dirp' (consistent
with the fact that it is a *pointer* to a DIR structure).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
mtk, after a comment by John Reiser
Clarify text describing getpid() caching bug for clone() wrapper.
See also:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6910
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=417521
getpid.2
mtk, after a comment by John Reiser
Describe getpid()'s PID caching and its consequences.
timerfd_create.2
Sam Varshavchik
s/it_interval/it_value/ when talking about TIMERFD_ABSTIME.
closedir.3
George Spelvin
Clarify closedir()'s treatment of underlying file descriptor.
tsearch.3
André Goddard Rosa
Fix memory leak in example program.
Add use of tdestroy to example program.
mtk
Add "#define _GNU_SOURCE" to example program.
protocols.5
mtk, after a note from Pavel Heimlich
Remove SEE ALSO references to nonexistent Guides to Yellow Pages
services.5
mtk
Remove some out-of-date bugs.
mtk, after a note from Pavel Heimlich
Remove SEE ALSO references to nonexistent Guides to Yellow Pages
and Bind/Hesiod docs.
mtk
Remove crufty text about use of comma instead of slash to separate
port and protocol.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.11 ====================
Released: 2008-10-07, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Eugene V. Lyubimkin <jackyf.devel@gmail.com>
Gergely Soos <sogerc1@gmail.com>
Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>
Maxin B. John <maxin.john@ap.sony.com>
Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Pavel Heimlich <tropikhajma@seznam.cz>
Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez <jimenezrick@gmail.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
umount.2
Michael Kerrisk
Create a new page for umount() and umount2() by extracting
existing material from mount.2 page.
New and changed links
---------------------
umount2.2
Michael Kerrisk
Change link to point to new umount.2
The umount2() material migrated from mount.2 to umount.2
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
execve.2
Michael Kerrisk
_SC_ARG_MAX is no longer necessarily constant
POSIX.1-2001 says that the values returned by sysconf()
are constant for the life of the process.
But the fact that, since Linux 2.6.23, ARG_MAX is settable
via RLIMIT_STACK means _SC_ARG_MAX is no longer constant,
since it can change at each execve().
Michael Kerrisk
Linux now imposes a floor on the ARG_MAX limit
Starting with Linux 2.6.23, the ARG_MAX limit became
settable via (1/4 of) RLIMIT_STACK. This broke ABI
compatibility if RLIMIT_STACK was set such that ARG_MAX
was < 32 pages. Document the fact that since 2.6.25
Linux imposes a floor on ARG_MAX, so that the old limit
of 32 pages is guaranteed.
For some background on the changes to ARG_MAX in
kernels 2.6.23 and 2.6.25, see:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5786
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10095
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/646709/focus=648101,
checked into 2.6.25 as
commit a64e715fc74b1a7dcc5944f848acc38b2c4d4ee2.
Also some reordering/rewording of the discussion of ARG_MAX.
fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note lack of glibc wrapper; caller must use syscall(2)
Glibc doesn't (and quite probably won't) include a
wrapper for this system call. Therefore, point out that
potential callers will need to use syscall(2), and rewrite
the RETURN VALUE text to show things as they would be if
syscall() is used.
Michael Kerrisk
Refer reader to posix_fallocate(3) for portable interface
Add a para to start of page that points out that this is the
low-level, Linux-specific API, and point the reader to
posix_fallocate(3) for the portable API.
getdents.2
readdir.3
Michael Kerrisk
d_type is currently only supported on ext[234]
As at kernel 2.6.27, only ext[234] support d_type.
On other file systems, d_type is always set to DT_UNKNOWN (0).
getdents.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add an example program
Michael Kerrisk
comment out linux_dirent fields with varying location
The location of the fields after d_name varies according to
the size of d_name. We can't properly declare them in C;
therefore, put those fields inside a comment.
Michael Kerrisk
The DT_* constants are defined in <dirent.h>
Michael Kerrisk
Remove header files from SYNOPSIS
None of the header files provides what is needed.
Calls are made via syscall(2).
Michael Kerrisk
The programmer must define the linux_dirent structure
Point out that this structure is not defined in glibc headers.
Michael Kerrisk
s/dirent/linux_dirent/
The structure isn't currently defined in glibc headers,
and the kernel name of the structure is 'linux_dirent' (as
was already used in some, but not all, places in this page).
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Reword/relocate discussion of BSD's historical RLIMIT_OFILE
The old sentence sat on its own in an odd place, and anyway the
modern BSDs use the name RLIMIT_NOFILE.
Michael Kerrisk
Refer to execve(2) for RLIMIT_STACK's effect on ARG_MAX
Refer the reader to new text in execve(2) that describes how
(since Linux 2.6.23) RLIMIT_STACK determines the value of ARG_MAX.
getrusage.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rusage measures are preserved across execve(2)
mlock.2
Maxin John
Add EAGAIN error.
move_pages.2
Nicolas François
Make a detail of EPERM error more precise
mount.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of per-process namespaces
Describe per-process namespaces, including discussion
of clone() and unshare CLONE_NEWNS, and /proc/PID/mounts.
Michael Kerrisk
List a few other file systems that we may see in /proc/filesystems
Add some modern file systems to that list (xfs, jfs, ext3,
reiserfs).
Michael Kerrisk
Document MS_SILENT (and MS_VERBOSE)
mount.2
umount.2
Michael Kerrisk
Split umount*() out into a separate page
The length of this page means that it's becoming difficult
to parse which info is specific to mount() versus
umount()/umount2(), so split the umount material out into
its own page.
pause.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove mention of words "library function"
This really is a system call.
readdir.2
Michael Kerrisk
The programmer must declare the old_linux_dirent structure
Glibc does not provide a definition of this structure.
Michael Kerrisk
s/dirent/old_linux_dirent/
Nowadays, this is the name of the structure in the
kernel sources.
Michael Kerrisk
Remove words "which may change"
These words are slightly bogus: although the interface
is obsolete, for ABI-compatibility reasons, the kernel folk
should never be changing this interface.
Michael Kerrisk
Remove header files from SYNOPSIS
glibc doesn't provide any support for readdir(2),
so remove these header files (which otherwise suggest
that glibc does provide the required pieces).
recv.2
Nicolas François
Move kernel version number to first mention to MSG_ERRQUEUE.
semop.2
Kirill A. Shutemov
Fix typo in example
(The '&' before sop in the semop() call is unneeded.)
send.2
Michael Kerrisk
Make kernel version for MSG_CONFIRM more precise
s/2.3+ only/Since Linux 2.3.15/
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk
Refer reader to signal(7) for an overview of signals
Explain semantics of signal disposition during fork() and execve()
Refer to signal(7) for more details on signal mask.
sigaltstack.2
Michael Kerrisk
Explain inheritance of alternate signal stack across fork(2)
sigwaitinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk
Distinguish per-thread and process-wide signals
A sentence clarifying that pending signal set is union of
per-thread and process-wide pending signal sets.
Michael Kerrisk
These interfaces have per-thread semantics
The page was previously fuzzy about whether the these interfaces
have process-wide or per-thread semantics. (E.g., now the
page states that the calling *thread* (not process) is suspended
until the signal is delivered.)
sigpending.2
Michael Kerrisk
Explain effect of fork() and execve() for pending signal set
Michael Kerrisk
Explain how thread's pending signal set is defined
The pending set is the union of per-thread pending signals
and process-wide pending signals.
sigprocmask.2
Michael Kerrisk
Explain effects of fork() and execve() for signal mask
splice.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that SPLICE_F_MOVE is a no-op since kernel 2.6.21
syscall.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add more detail about wrapper functions
Add a few more details about work generally done by wrapper
functions. Note that syscall(2) performs the same steps.
tkill.2
Michael Kerrisk
EINVAL error can also occur for invalid TGID
The EINVAL error on an invalid TGID for tgkill() was
not documented; this change documents it.
utimensat.2
Michael Kerrisk
POSIX.1-2008 revision will likely affect FTMs for futimens()
Make it clear that the POSIX.1 revision that is likely
to affect the feature test macro requirements for futimens()
is POSIX.1-2008.
Nicolas François
Make various wordings a little more precise.
The times argument point to *an array of* structures, and the
man-page should say that consistently.
wait4.2
Michael Kerrisk
wait3() is a library function layered on wait4().
On Linux wait3() is a library function implemented on top
of wait4(). (Knowing this is useful when using strace(2),
for example.)
atan2.3
Nicolas François
Fix error in description of range or return value
In recent changes to the man page, mtk accidentally changed
the description of the return value range to -pi/2..pi/2;
the correct range is -pi..pi.
cmsg.3
Nicolas François
Add parentheses after macro names.
ctime.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify mktime()'s use of tm_isdst
Describe use of tm_isdst for input to mktime();
explain how mktime() modifies this field.
(This field is left unchanged in case of error.)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500178
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify wording for ctime_r() and asctime_r() to indicate that
the buffer must be at least 26 *bytes*.
Michael Kerrisk
Minor rewording of mktime() description.
floor.3
Nicolas François
floor.3: Fix error in description: s/smallest/largest/
hsearch.3
André Goddard Rosa
Call hdestroy() after using hash table created by hcreate(),
for the sake of completeness
mq_getattr.3
Michael Kerrisk
mq_getattr() and mq_setattr() are layered on mq_getsetattr(2)
mq_getattr() and mq_setattr() are library functions layered on
top of the mq_getsetattr(2) system call.
(This is useful info for users of strace(1).)
mq_receive.3
Michael Kerrisk
mq_send() is a library function layered on mq_timedreceive() syscall
This info is useful for users of strace(1).
mq_send.3
Michael Kerrisk
mq_send() is a library function layered on mq_timedsend() syscall
This info is useful for users of strace(1).
nextafter.3
Nicolas François
Make description more precise: s/next/largest/
readdir.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add getdents(2)
Because readdir() is implemented on top of getdents(2).
realpath.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that returned pathname is NULL terminated
Also clarify that null-byte is included in PATH_MAX limit.
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite and simplify description of /proc/mounts
Most of the relevant discussion is now under /proc/PID/mounts;
all that needs to be here is a mention of the pre-2.4.19
system-wide namespace situation, and a reference to the
discussion under /proc/PID/mounts.
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of /proc/PID/mounts
Largely cribbed from existing /proc/mounts discussion, which is
about to be rewritten.
mq_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add mq_notify() to list of lib. functions and syscalls in MQ API
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
Improve description in NAME section
Add mention of sigaltstack(2).
Describe syscalls that synchronously wait for a signal,
Give overview of syscalls that block until a signal is caught
Add overview of interfaces for sending signals.
Michael Kerrisk
Describe semantics w.r.t. fork() and execve()
Include text describing semantics of fork() and execve() for
signal dispositions, signal mask, and pending signal set.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.12 ====================
Released: 2008-10-29, Bucaramanga
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Christian Grigis <glove@earthling.net>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Didier <did447@gmail.com>
Halesh S <halesh.s@india.com>
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <fsmla@xinara.org>
Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>
Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro@tee.gr>
Michael B. Trausch <mike@trausch.us>
Pierre Cazenave <pwc101@noc.soton.ac.uk>
Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
pthread_attr_init.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_init(3) and pthread_attr_destroy(3)
pthread_attr_setdetachstate.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setdetachstate(3) and
pthread_attr_getdetachstate(3)
pthread_attr_setguardsize.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setguardsize(3) and
pthread_attr_getguardsize(3)
pthread_attr_setscope.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setscope(3) and pthread_attr_getscope(3)
pthread_attr_setstack.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setstack(3) and pthread_attr_getstack(3)
pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setstackaddr(3) and
pthread_attr_getstackaddr(3)
pthread_attr_setstacksize.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setstacksize(3) and
pthread_attr_getstacksize(3)
pthread_create.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page describing pthread_create(3)
pthread_detach.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_detach(3)
pthread_equal.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_equal(3)
pthread_exit.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page describing pthread_exit(3)
pthread_getattr_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_getattr_np(3)
pthread_join.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_join(3)
pthread_self.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_self(3)
pthread_tryjoin_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_tryjoin_np(3) and pthread_timedjoin_np(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
dup.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of dup3()
dup3() was added in kernel 2.6.27.
epoll_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of new epoll_create1()
The new epoll_create1() system call appeared in Linux 2.6.27.
eventfd.2
Michael Kerrisk
Describe eventfd2() and EFD_NONBLOCK and EFD_CLOEXEC
Linux 2.6.27 added eventfd(), which supports a flags argument
that eventfd() did not provide. The flags so far implemented
are EFD_NONBLOCK and EFD_CLOEXEC,
inotify_init.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of inotify_init1()
The inotify_init1() system call was added in Linux 2.6.27.
pipe.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of new pipe2() syscall
pipe2() was added in 2.6.27. Describe the O_NONBLOCK and
O_CLOEXEC flags.
signalfd.2
Michael Kerrisk
Describe signalfd4() and SFD_NONBLOCK and SFD_CLOEXEC
Linux 2.6.27 added signalfd4(), which supports a flags argument
that signalfd() did not provide. The flags so far implemented
are SFD_NONBLOCK and SFD_CLOEXEC.
New and changed links
---------------------
dup3.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to dup.2
dup.2 now contains the description of the new dup3() syscall.
epoll_create1.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to epoll_create.2
epoll_create.2 now includes a description of the new
epoll_create1() system call.
eventfd2.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to eventfd.2
The eventfd.2 page has some details on the eventfd2() system call,
which was new in Linux 2.6.27.
inotify_init1.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to inotify_init.2
inotify_init.2 now includes a description of the new
inotify_init1() system call.
pipe2.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to pipe.2
pipe(2) now contains a description of the new pipe2() syscall.
pthread_attr_destroy.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_init.3
pthread_attr_getdetachstate.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setdetachstate.3
pthread_attr_getguardsize.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setguardsize.3
pthread_attr_getscope.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setscope.3
pthread_attr_getstack.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setstack.3
pthread_attr_getstackaddr.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setstackaddr.3
pthread_attr_getstacksize.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setstacksize.3
pthread_timedjoin_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_tryjoin_np.3
signalfd4.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to signalfd.2
signalfd.2 now includes text describing signalfd4() system call,
new in Linux 2.6.27.
Global changes
--------------
eventfd.2, getdents.2, mprotect.2, signalfd.2, timerfd_create.2,
wait.2, backtrace.3, clock_getcpuclockid.3, end.3, fmemopen.3,
fopencookie.3, getdate.3, getgrouplist.3, getprotoent_r.3,
getservent_r.3, gnu_get_libc_version.3, inet.3, inet_pton.3,
makecontext.3, matherr.3, offsetof.3, pthread_attr_init.3,
pthread_create.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, sem_wait.3, strtol.3, core.5
Michael Kerrisk
Add ".SS Program source" to EXAMPLE
Add ".SS Program source" to clearly distinguish shell session and
descriptive text from actual program code.
eventfd.2, execve.2, getdents.2, ioprio_set.2, mprotect.2,
signalfd.2, timerfd_create.2, wait.2, backtrace.3,
clock_getcpuclockid.3, end.3, fmemopen.3, fopencookie.3, frexp.3,
getdate.3, getgrouplist.3, getprotoent_r.3, getservent_r.3,
gnu_get_libc_version.3, inet.3, inet_pton.3, makecontext.3,
malloc.3, matherr.3, offsetof.3, pthread_attr_init.3,
pthread_create.3, pthread_getattr_np.3, sem_wait.3, strftime.3,
strtok.3, strtol.3, core.5, proc.5, cpuset.7, mq_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Format user input in shell sessions in boldface
frexp.3, strftime.3, strtok.3
Michael Kerrisk
Relocate shell session above example program
Move the shell session text that demonstrates the use of
the example program so that it precedes the actual
example program. This makes the page consistent with the
majority of other pages.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
epoll_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Say more about unused epoll_create() 'size' arg
Supply a little more explanation about why the 'size' argument
of epoll_create() is nowadays ignored.
eventfd.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove crufty text relating to flags argument
Remove sentence saying that glibc adds a flags argument
to the syscall; that was only relevant for the older
eventfd() system call.
getdents.2
Christoph Hellwig
Fix text relating to DT_UNKNOWN and 'd_type' support
Some file systems provide partial support for 'dt_type',
returning DT_UNKNOWN for cases they don't support.
Update the discussion of 'd_type' and DT_UNKNOWN to
support this.
getpeername.2, getsockname.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add ip(7) and unix(7)
getsockopt.2
Michael Kerrisk
EINVAL can also occur if 'optval' is invalid
In some cases, EINVAL can occur if 'optval' is invalid.
Note this, and point reader to an example in ip(7).
In response to:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216092
inotify_init.2
pipe.2
timerfd_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify *_NONBLOCK description
Make it clear that the NONBLOCK flag sets an attribute in the new
open file description.
sched_yield.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite description in terms of threads
The text formerly described the operation of sched_yield() in
terms of processes. It should be in terms of threads.
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES text on appropriate use of sched_yield()
Strategic calls to sched_yield() can be used to improve
performance, but unnecessary use should be avoided.
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that sa_mask affects the *per-thread* signal mask
The page didn't previously clearly explain the scope of the
signal mask that is affected by sa_mask.
signalfd.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove crufty text relating to flags argument
Remove sentence saying that glibc adds a flags argument
to the syscall; that was only relevant for the older
signalfd() system call.
sigprocmask.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that sigprocmask() operates on a per-thread mask
The first sentence of the page was vague on the scope of the
attribute changed by sigprocmask(). Reword to make this
clearer and add a sentence in NOTES to explicitly state that
the signal mask is a per-thread attribute.
socket.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document SOCK_NONBLOCK and SOCK_CLOEXEC flags
These flags, specified in the 'type' argument, are supported
since Linux 2.6.27.
socketpair.2
Michael Kerrisk
Refer to socket(2) for SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK
Refer the reader to socket(2) for a description of the SOCK_CLOEXEC
and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags, which are supported by socketpair() since
Linux 2.6.27.
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add new 2.6.27 system calls
Add pipe2(), dup3(), epoll_create1(), inotify_init1(),
eventfd2(), signalfd4().
timerfd_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document timerfd_create() TFD_CLOEXEC and TFD_NONBLOCK
TFD_CLOEXEC and TFD_NONBLOCK are supported since LInux 2.6.27.
vfork.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify meaning of "child releases the parent's memory"
The man page was not explicit about how the memory used by
the child is released back to the parent.
ctime.3
Michael Kerrisk
ctime_r() and localtime_r() need not set 'timezone' and 'daylight'
The man page already noted that these functions need not set
'tzname', but things could be clearer: it tzset() is not called,
then the other two variables also are not set.
Also, clarify that ctime() does set 'timezone' and 'daylight'.
dlopen.3
Michael Kerrisk
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is inspected once, at program start-up
Make it clear that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is inspected *once*, at
program start-up. (Verified from source and by experiment.)
fmemopen.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document binary mode (mode 'b')
Glibc 2.9 adds support to fmemopen() for binary mode opens.
Binary mode is specified by inclusion of the letter 'b' in
the 'mode' argument.
getaddrinfo.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify error descriptions with some examples
Clarify the description of some errors by giving examples
that produce the errors. (Text added for EAI_SERVICE and
EAI_SOCKTYPE.)
Also, add an error case for EAI_BADFLAGS.
gethostbyname.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rationalize text on POSIX.1-2001 obsolete interfaces
POSIX.1 marks gethostbyname(), gethostbyaddr(), and 'h_errno'
as obsolete. The man page explained this, but with some
duplication. Remove the duplication, and otherwise tidy up
discussion of this point.
popen.3
Michael Kerrisk
Change one-line description in NAME
s%process I/O%pipe stream to or from a process%
Michael Kerrisk
Document 'e' (close-on-exec) flag
glibc 2.9 implements the 'e' flag in 'type', which sets the
close-on-exec flag on the underlying file descriptor.
raise.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add pthread_kill(3)
readdir.3
Christoph Hellwig
Fix text relating to DT_UNKNOWN and 'd_type' support
(This mirrors the previous change to getdents.2)
Some file systems provide partial support for 'dt_type',
returning DT_UNKNOWN for cases they don't support.
Update the discussion of 'd_type' and DT_UNKNOWN to
support this.
strcpy.3
Jason Spiro
Strengthen warning about checking against buffer overruns
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413940
tty_ioctl.4
Michael Kerrisk
Explain capability requirements for TIOCCONS
Explain capability requirements for TIOCCONS, and describe
changes in 2.6.10 relating to capabilities.
Michael Kerrisk
Explain capability requirements for various ioctls
For TIOCSLCKTRMIOS, TIOCSCTTY, TIOCEXCL, explain the exact
capability that is required (the text formerly just said "root"
in each case).
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max
Defines the system-wide limit on the number of threads (tasks).
utmp.5
Pierre Cazenave
It is just "other" who should not have write perms on utmp
The page was vague before, saying that utmp should not be
writable by any user. This isn't true: it can be, and
typically is, writable by user and group.
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Mention epoll_create1() as part of epoll API
epoll_create1() was added in Linux 2.6.27, and extends the
functionality of epoll_create().
inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk
Mention inotify_init1() in overview of API
Discuss the new inotify_init1() system call in the overview of
the inotify API.
ip.7
Michael Kerrisk
Detail EINVAL error for IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP socket option
In response to:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=216092
iso_8859-7.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
Add Drachma, Euro, and Greek Ypogegrammeni
Also, amend description of characters 0241 and 0242.
man-pages.7
Michael Kerrisk
Example shell sessions should have user input boldfaced
pthreads.7
Michael Kerrisk
Describe return value from pthreads functions
Describe the usual success (0) and failure (non-zero) returns,
and note that POSIX.1-2001 specifies that pthreads functions
can never fail with the error EINTR.
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
Timeouts make socket interfaces non-restartable
If setsockopt() is used to set a timeout on a socket(),
then the various socket interfaces are not automatically
restarted, even if SA_RESTART is specified when
establishing the signal handler. Analogous behavior occurs
for the "stop signals" case.
socket.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add unix(7)
ld.so.8
Michael Kerrisk
Document LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS
Drawing heavily on Jakub Jelinek's description in
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2003-11/msg00127.html
(Subject: [PATCH] Support LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS)
--inhibit-rpath is ignored for setuid/setgid ld.so
The --inhibit-rpath option is ignored if ld.so is setuid/setgid
(not if the executable is setuid/setgid).
Michael Kerrisk
Since glibc 2.4, setuid/setgid programs ignore LD_ORIGIN_PATH
Michael Kerrisk
Fix description of LD_PROFILE and LD_PROFILE_OUTPUT
Clarify that LD_PROFILE is pathname or a soname,
and identify name of profiling output file.
Fix description of LD_PROFILE_OUTPUT, which wasn't even close to
the truth. (But why did it remain unfixed for so many years?)
Michael Kerrisk
Since glibc 2.3.4, setuid/setgid programs ignore LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK
Michael Kerrisk
Since version 2.3.5, setuid/setgid programs ignore LD_SHOW_AUXV
Michael Kerrisk
Reorder lists of LD_* environment variables alphabetically
Michael Kerrisk
Since glibc 2.3.4, setuid/setgid programs ignore LD_DEBUG
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.13 ====================
Released: 2008-11-07, Bucaramanga
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Karsten Weiss <knweiss@gmail.com>
Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro@tee.gr>
Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek@gmail.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setaffinity_np(3) and
pthread_attr_getaffinity_np(3)
pthread_attr_setschedparam.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setschedparam(3) and
pthread_attr_getschedparam(3)
pthread_attr_setschedpolicy.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(3) and
pthread_attr_getschedpolicy(3)
pthread_setaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_setaffinity_np(3) and pthread_getaffinity_np(3)
pthread_setschedparam.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_setschedparam(3) and pthread_getschedparam(3)
pthread_setschedprio.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_setschedprio(3)
New and changed links
---------------------
pthread_attr_getaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3
pthread_attr_getschedparam.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setschedparam.3
pthread_attr_getschedpolicy.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setschedpolicy.3
pthread_getaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_setaffinity_np.3
pthread_getschedparam.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_setschedparam.3
Global changes
--------------
pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3
pthread_getattr_np.3
pthread_setaffinity_np.3
pthread_tryjoin_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
Explain _np suffix
Add text to CONFORMING TO explaining that the "_np"
suffix is because these functions are non-portable.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
sched_setaffinity.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add sched_getcpu(3)
sched_setaffinity.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add pthread_setaffinity_np(3)
sched_setaffinity.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify EINVAL error for cpusetsize < kernel mask size
For sched_setaffinity(), the EINVAL error that occurs
if 'cpusetsize' is smaller than the kernel CPU set size only
occurs with kernels before 2.6.9.
vfork.2
Michael Kerrisk
Child holds parent's memory until execve() or *termination*
The page was phrased in a few places to describe the child as
holding the parent's memory until the child does an execve(2)
or an _exit(2). The latter case should really be the more
general process termination (i.e., either _exit(2) or abnormal
termination).
clock_getres.3
Michael Kerrisk
CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID not setabble
According to POSIX.1-2001, the CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID clocks should be settable, but
currently they are not.
pthread_attr_setstacksize.3
Michael Kerrisk, after a report by Karsten Weiss
EINVAL occurs on some systems if stacksize != page-size
On MacOS X at least, pthread_attr_setstacksize(3) can fail
with EINVAL if 'stacksize' is not a multiple of the system
page size. Best to mention this so as to aid people writing
portable programs.
pthread_create.3
Karsten Weiss
Fix bug in EXAMPLE program
The calloc() line should read like this instead:
tinfo = calloc(num_threads, sizeof(struct thread_info));
pthread_exit.3
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: thread group with a dead leader and stop signals
Document the bug that can occur when a stop signal
is sent to a thread group whose leader has terminated.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/611611
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122525468300823&w=2
resolver.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix prototype of dn_expand()
The 4th argument is "char *", not "unsigned char *".
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504708
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Fix error handling after accept() in example code
Simply continuing after an error is in most cases wrong,
and can lead to infinite loops (e.g., for EMFILE).
So handle an error by terminating.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504202
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add error handling for epoll_wait() call in example code
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Improve example code
Fill in some gaps in example code (variable declarations,
adding listening socket to epoll set).
Give variables more meaningful names.
Other minor changes.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504202
iso_8859-7.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
Add characters for Drachma and Greek Ypogegrammeni
Lines for these two characters were added in the previous patch,
but the actual characters were not included in the 4th column
of the table. This fixes that.
pthreads.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add a section describing thread IDs
In particular, note that in each pthreads function that takes
a thread ID argument, that ID by definition refers to a thread
in the same process as the caller.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.14 ====================
Released: 2008-11-25, Bucaramanga
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Jen Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Loïc Domaigne <tech@domaigne.com>
Masanari Iida <masanari.iida@hp.com>
Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Pierre-Paul Paquin <pierrepaulpaquin@gmail.com>
Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Stefano Teso <teso@disi.unitn.it>
Stew Benedict <stewb@linux-foundation.org>
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
CPU_SET.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting CPU_* macros
This page contains material moved out of sched_setscheduler(2).
It overwrites a previously existing link file with the same name.
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of macros for dynamically allocated CPU sets
Add descriptions of CPU_ALLOC(), CPU_ALLOC_SIZE(), CPU_FREE(),
CPU_SET_S(), CPU_CLR_S(), CPU_ISSET_S(), CPU_ZERO_S(),
CPU_COUNT_S(), CPU_AND_S(), CPU_OR_S(), CPU_XOR_S(), and
CPU_EQUAL_S().
Michael Kerrisk
Add documentation of CPU_COUNT()
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of CPU_AND(), CPU_OR, CPU_XOR(), and CPU_EQUAL()
Plus a few other small clean-ups of the text
Michael Kerrisk
Various improvements in DESCRIPTION
After review comments by Bert Wesarg:
* Explain that cpu_set_t is a bitset, but should be considered
opaque.
* A CPU set can be duplicated with memset().
* Size of a CPU set is rounded up to size of long.
* CPU_SETSIZE is in bits, but the setsize argument is in bytes.
Michael Kerrisk
Document CPU_ALLOC()/CPU_ALLOC_SIZE() bug
These macros return twice what they should because of thinko
in glibc 2.8 and earlier. The bug is fixed for glibc 2.9.
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7029
Michael Kerrisk
NOTES: Discuss use of types in "prototypes" for these macros
The SYNOPSIS shows types for arguments and return values, but
these are really just suggestions: since the interfaces are
macros, the compiler won't catch all violations of
the "type rules". Warn the reader of this.
pthread_attr_setinheritsched.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_attr_setinheritsched(3) and
pthread_attr_getinheritsched(3)
pthread_cancel.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_cancel(3)
pthread_cleanup_push.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_cleanup_push(3) and pthread_cleanup_pop(3)
pthread_setcancelstate.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_setcancelstate(3) and pthread_setcanceltype(3)
pthread_testcancel.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_testcancel(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
clone.2
Jens Axboe
Document CLONE_IO (new in Linux 2.6.25)
Some text also by mtk.
Michael Kerrisk
Document CLONE_NEWNET
Michael Kerrisk
Document CLONE_NEWUTS (new in Linux 2.6.19)
Michael Kerrisk
Document CLONE_NEWIPC flag (new in Linux 2.6.19)
Michael Kerrisk
Document CLONE_NEWPID flag (new in Linux 2.6.24)
mmap.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document MAP_STACK flag (new in Linux 2.6.27)
arp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file retrans_time_ms (new in Linux 2.6.12)
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file base_reachable_time_ms (new in Linux 2.6.12)
icmp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document icmp_ignore_bogus_error_responses (new in Linux 2.2)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document icmp_ratelimit and icmp_ratemask (new in Linux 2.4.10)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts (new in Linux 2.6.12)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
tcp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_slow_start_after_idle (new in Linux 2.6.18)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_base_mss (new in Linux 2.6.17)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_frto_response (new in Linux 2.6.22)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_moderate_rcvbuf (new in Linux 2.4.17/2.6.7)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_congestion_control (new in Linux 2.4.13)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_no_metrics_save (new in Linux 2.6.6)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_mtu_probing (new in Linux 2.6.17)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_dma_copybreak (new in Linux 2.6.24)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_tso_win_divisor (new in Linux 2.6.9)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_allowed_congestion_control (new in Linux 2.4.20)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_workaround_signed_windows (new in Linux 2.6.26)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_available_congestion_control (new in Linux 2.4.20)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc file tcp_abc (new in Linux 2.6.15)
Text taken from Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
udp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc files udp_mem, udp_rmem_min, and udp_wmem_min
All of these are new in Linux 2.6.25
New and changed links
---------------------
CPU_ALLOC.3
CPU_ALLOC_SIZE.3
CPU_AND.3
CPU_AND_S.3
CPU_CLR_S.3
CPU_COUNT.3
CPU_COUNT_S.3
CPU_EQUAL.3
CPU_EQUAL_S.3
CPU_FREE.3
CPU_ISSET_S.3
CPU_OR.3
CPU_OR_S.3
CPU_SET_S.3
CPU_XOR.3
CPU_XOR_S.3
CPU_ZERO_S.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new CPU_SET.3
CPU_CLR.3
CPU_ISSET.3
CPU_ZERO.3
Michael Kerrisk
Update links to point to CPU_SET.3
The documentation of the CPU_* macros migrated to a new
location: CPU_SET.3.
pthread_attr_getinheritsched.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_attr_setinheritsched.3
pthread_cleanup_pop.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_cleanup_push.3
pthread_setcanceltype.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_setcancelstate.3
Global changes
--------------
clone.2
mount.2
unshare.2
proc.5
path_resolution.7
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/namespace/mount-point namespace/, as appropriate
In recent times, a number of other namespace flags have been
added to clone(2). As such, it is no longer clear to use
the generic term "namespace" to refer to the particular
namespace controlled by CLONE_NEWNS; instead, use the
term "mount-point namespace".
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/mount-point namespace/mount namespace/
This is more consistent with the term "mounts namespace"
used in the 2008 ACM SIGOPS paper, "Virtual servers
and and checkpoint/restart in mainstream Linux".
(I avoided the "s", because using the plural strikes me
as klunky English, and anyway we don't talk about
the "PIDs namespace" or the "networks namespace", etc..)
connect.2
listen.2
send.2
uname.2
cmsg.3
proc.5
arp.7
ddp.7
icmp.7
ip.7
raw.7
socket.7
tcp.7
udp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: eliminate mention of the obsolete sysctl(2) interface
Many pages still mention use of the obsolete sysctl(2) system
call, or used the term "sysctls"; rewrite these mentions to
instead be in terms of /proc interfaces.
fcntl.2
signal.2
mbsnrtowcs.3
mbsrtowcs.3
mbtowc.3
wcrtomb.3
wcsnrtombs.3
wcsrtombs.3
wctomb.3
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/multi-thread/multithread/
getdents.2
pthread_attr_init.3
pthread_create.3
pthread_getattr_np.3
pthread_setaffinity_np.3
pthread_setschedparam.3
pthread_tryjoin_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
Use consistent error-handling function names
Many older pages use a handle_error() macro to do simple
error handling from system and library function calls.
Switch these pages to do similar.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
time.1
Michael Kerrisk
Note that some shells have a 'time' built-in command
Therefore, to access the functionality described on this page,
it may be necessary to specify the full pathname.
clone.2
Michael Kerrisk
Place list of CLONE_* flags in alphabetical order
(No content changes.)
fsync.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update feature test macro requirements for fsync()
Since glibc 2.8, the fsync() declaration is also exposed if
_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
sched_setaffinity.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add note on system-imposed restrictions on CPUs actually used
After Loïc Domaigne's suggestion for pthread_setaffinity_np(3), add
similar text to this page noting that the system silently
limits the set of CPUs on which the process actually runs to
the set of CPUs physically present and the limits imposed by
cpuset(7).
sched_setaffinity.2
Michael Kerrisk
Removed discussion of CPU_* macros()
These macros are now moving to a separate page.
Michael Kerrisk
Refer reader to pthread_setaffinity_np(3)
pthread_setaffinity_np() is preferable for setting
thread CPU affinity if using the POSIX threads API.
sysctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add prominent warning against using this system call
This was already stated under NOTES, but make it even more
prominent by adding a sentence at the start of the DESCRIPTION.
uname.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add C comments describing fields in utsname structure
atan2.3
Stefano Teso
Fix description of range of function value return
The range is not [-pi/2, pi/2], but [-pi, pi].
(mtk: This error was reported by Nicolas François, and
should have been fixed in 3.11, but somewhere along the way,
the fix got lost.)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506299
bindresvport.3
Michael Kerrisk
Since glibc 2.8, EPFNOSUPPORT error is now EAFNOSUPPORT
Glibc switched to using a POSIX-specified error code for
this error case.
http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2375
clock_getres.3
Michael Kerrisk
CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID not settable
According to POSIX.1-2001, the CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and
CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID clocks should be settable, but
currently they are not.
getgrnam.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify and add more detail in RETURN VALUE description
The page was a bit fuzzy in describing the return values for
various cases. In particular, it needed to be more explicit
in describing what happens for the "not found" case.
This is an analogous change to the change for
getpwnam.3, made after Andreas Henriksson's report.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504787
Michael Kerrisk
Rename arguments to getgrnam_r() and getgrgid_r()
s/gbuf/grp/ and s/gbufp/result/, for consistency
with POSIX.1 argument names.
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify RETURN VALUE description
The page was a bit fuzzy in describing the return values for
various cases. In particular, it needed to be more explicit
in describing what happens for the "not found" case.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504708
getpwnam.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rename arguments to getpwnam_r() and getpwuid_r()
s/pwbuf/pwd/ and s/pwbufp/result/, for consistency
with POSIX.1 argument names.
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify and add more detail in RETURN VALUE description
The page was a bit fuzzy in describing the return values for
various cases. In particular, it needed to be more explicit
in describing what happens for the "not found" case.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504787
Michael Kerrisk
Add an EXAMPLE program for getpwnam_r()
inet_ntop.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rename 'cnt' argument to 'size'
This is consistent with POSIX.1, and also a more sensible name.
Michael Kerrisk
Rework text describing 'size' argument
(After a suggestion by Vegard Nossum.)
Also made a few other small rewordings to in the initial
paragraph.
makecontext.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add text on use of pointer arguments to makecontext()
Passing pointer arguments to makecontext() is possible,
but only on some architectures, and with no guarantees
of portability.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=504699
pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
Various fixes after review by Loïc Domaigne
Reviewed-by: Loïc Domaigne
pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3
pthread_setaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
Update to reflect new location of CPU_*() documentation
The CPU_*() macros are now documented in CPU_SET.3;
update to reflect that fact.
Michael Kerrisk
Remove redundant text relating to CPU sets
Information about CPU_SETSIZE can be found in CPU_SET.3, so
remove discussion of it here.
pthread_attr_setschedparam.3
pthread_setschedparam.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove text saying that only sched_priority is required by POSIX.1
Loïc Domaigne points out that if a system implements
SCHED_SPORADIC (which Linux does not), then other
fields are also specified in sched_param. The simple
solution is just to remove that phrase from the man
page.
pthread_cancel.3
pthread_detach.3
pthread_join.3
pthread_setaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
Make text of ESRCH error consistent
pthread_setaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add text to EINVAL error mentioning cpuset(7)
Michael Kerrisk
Various improvements after review by Loïc Domaigne
Various fix-ups after Loïc's review.
Reviewed-by: Loïc Domaigne
pthread_setschedparam.3
Michael Kerrisk
PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED is default for inherit scheduler attribute
In EXAMPLE, note that PTHREAD_INHERIT_SCHED is the default for
the inherit scheduler attribute attribute.
syslog.3
Masanari Iida
LOG_KERN messages can't be generated from user processes
Masanari notes that this is an FAQ for logger(1) and that
Solaris and FreeBSD document this point in syslog(3).
The glibc info page also hides this comment in its source:
Internally, there is also LOG_KERN, but LOG_KERN == 0,
which means if you try to use it here, just selects default.
proc.5
Ivana Varekova
Fix reference to kernel source file
Use relative reference to Documentation/mtrr.txt.
arp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel version numbers for /proc interfaces
cpuset.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add CPU_SET(3)
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Note glibc version that added epoll support
icmp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel version numbers to /proc file descriptions
inotify.7
Vegard Nossum
Fix description of max_user_watches
It seems that inotify(7) is wrong here:
"/proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
This specifies a limit on the number of watches that can be
associated with each inotify instance."
On my system, the default value for this variable is 8192. But I
cannot create more than 8192 watches in total for the same UID
even when they are on different inotify instances. So I suggest
to rephrase this as: "This specifies an upper limit on the
number of watches that can be created per real user ID."
ip.7
Michael Kerrisk
Reorder socket options alphabetically
Michael Kerrisk
Added kernel version numbers for IP_* socket options
Michael Kerrisk
Relocate kernel version information for IP_PMTUDISC_PROBE
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel version numbers for /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_* files
Michael Kerrisk
Remove mention of kernel header from description of IP_RECVERR
Looks like glibc has had this definition since about version 2.1.
Michael Kerrisk
Relocate kernel version information for ip_mreqn structure
Michael Kerrisk
Relocate info about Linux-specific sockopts to NOTES
Also add some source comments about non-standard Linux-specific
options that are not yet documented.
netlink.7
Vegard Nossum
Fix incorrect variable names in example code
s/snl/sa/ * 2
pthreads.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add section on cancellation points
This section includes a list of the functions that must and
may be cancellation points.
Michael Kerrisk
Rework, and fix small error in, thread-safe function list
Integrate the changes that occurred in POSIX.1-2008 into the
main list (to be consistent with the list, elsewhere on this
page, of functions that are cancellation points).
Also, fix an error that said that strerror() was added to
the list in POSIX.1-2008. It was strsignal() that was
added. (strerror() was already in the list in POSIX.1-2001.)
Michael Kerrisk
Tweak text on sigpause() cancellation point
In POSIX.1-2009, this function moves from the "must be"
to the "may be" list.
Michael Kerrisk
Add ref to signal(7) for further info on use of real-time signals
signal(7) provides some further details on the use of real-time
signals by the two Linux threading implementations.
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add pthread_attr_init() and pthread_cancel()
tcp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Update description of tcp_rmem defaults for Linux 2.6
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel version numbers for TCP_* socket options
Note kernel version were each socket option first appeared.
Michael Kerrisk
The tcp_bic* proc files disappeared in Linux 2.6.13
Michael Kerrisk
tcp_vegas_cong_avoid disappeared in Linux 2.6.13
Michael Kerrisk
Add mention of RFC 4138 for 'tcp_frto' /proc file
Michael Kerrisk
Remove mention of /proc in VERSIONS
This information is not indicated for each /proc interface
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that tcp_mem measures in units of the system page size
Michael Kerrisk
Update tcp_frto description for 2.6.22 changes
Linux 2.6.22 added a mode value 2 ("Enable SACK-enhanced
F-RTO if flow uses SACK").
Michael Kerrisk
Fix alphabetical order in /proc file list
A few entries were slightly out of order.
Michael Kerrisk
Remove obsolete statement about /proc from VERSIONS
Much of the text has been updated to 2.6.27 or so,
so this statement no longer applies.
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel version numbers for each /proc interface
Note kernel version where each /proc interface first appeared
Michael Kerrisk
tcp_westwood /proc file disappeared in Linux 2.6.13
Michael Kerrisk
Update description of tcp_wmem defaults for Linux 2.6
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.15 ====================
Released: 2008-12-05, Bucaramanga
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andre Majorel <aym-xunil@teaser.fr>
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
Drake Wilson <drake@begriffli.ch>
Mats Wichmann <mats.d.wichmann@intel.com>
Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@mikefedyk.com>
Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Phil Endecott <phil_vonar_endecott@chezphil.org>
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
makedev.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for makedev(), major(), and minor() macros
pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np(3) and
pthread_cleanup_pop_restore_np(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
accept.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document accept4() system call, new in Linux 2.6.28
fmemopen.3
Petr Baudis
Add description of open_wmemstream(3)
tcp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document MSG_TRUNC flag for TCP sockets
New and changed links
---------------------
accept4.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to accept.2
accept.2 now documents the new accept4() system call.
open_wmemstream.3
Petr Baudis
New link to fmemopen.3
fmemopen.3 now documents open_wmemstream().
pthread_cleanup_pop_restore_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_cleanup_push_defer_np.3
Global changes
--------------
accept.2
listen.2
recv.2
getpeername.2
getsockname.2
shutdown.2
socketpair.2
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: SEE ALSO: add socket(7)
bind.2
rcmd.3
capabilities.7
ip.7
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/reserved port/privileged port/
Some pages used one term, some pages the other term;
make some consistency.
connect.2
getpeername.2
getsockname.2
Michael Kerrisk
Use consistent argument names
Most other sockets pages are using the names 'addr'
and 'addrlen'; make these pages do the same.
getpeername.2
getsockname.2
getsockopt.2
recv.2
send.2
shutdown.2
sockatmark.3
socket.7
udplite.7
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Rename socket file descriptor argument to 'sockfd'
Many sockets man pages use the name 'sockfd' already.
For consistency, changes the others to do so as well.
gnu_dev_major.3
gnu_dev_makedev.3
gnu_dev_minor.3
major.3
minor.3
Michael Kerrisk
New links to new makedev(3) page
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
_exit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Since glibc 2.3, the exit() wrapper function invokes exit_group(2)
This information is useful to users of strace(1).
accept.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify details when returned address is truncated
If the returned address is truncated, the 'addrlen' argument
indicates the actual size of the address, rather than a count
of the number of bytes in the truncated buffer.
Also clarify that if 'addr' argument is NULL, then 'addrlen'
should is unused, and should also be NULL.
Michael Kerrisk
Reorder ERRORS list
Some errors were listed under a separate "may" heading.
There's probably no real need to do this; integrate
those errors into the main list.
exit_group.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that since glibc 2.3, exit(2) invokes exit_group()
futex.2
Michael Kerrisk
Mention that glibc provides no wrapper function for futex()
get_thread_area.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that glibc provides no wrapper for this system call
getdomainname.2
Michael Kerrisk
Substantial rewrite
Expand description of setdomainname() and getdomainname().
Note that getdomainname() is implemented as a library function
in glibc.
Note limits on size of domain name.
Reorganize ERRORS list.
gethostname.2
Michael Kerrisk
Various parts rewritten
Write a paragraph describing sethostname().
Clarify differences between glibc's gethostbyname() and
the kernel gethostbyname() system calls.
gethostname.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that HOST_NAME_MAX is 64 on Linux
Also note that in pre-1.0 days, the limit on hostnames
was 8 bytes.
getpeername.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that returned address may be truncated if buffer is too small
getsid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Simplified version information and moved to a new VERSIONS section
getsockname.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that returned address is truncated if buffer is too small
mknod.2
Michael Kerrisk
Refer reader to makedev(3) to build a device ID
mmap.2
Michael Kerrisk
Loosen language around how 'addr' hint is interpreted
Mel Gorman reported that in Linux 2.6.27, 'addr' is rounded
down to a page boundary.
Before kernel 2.6.26, if 'addr' was taken as a hint, it was
rounded up to the next page boundary. Since Linux 2.6.24,
it is rounded down. Therefore, loosen the description of
this point to say that the address is rounded to "a nearby
page boundary".
open.2
Michael Kerrisk
EFBIG error is now EOVERFLOW (since Linux 2.6.24)
When a 32-bit app opens a file whose size is too big to be
represented in 31-bits, POSIX.1 specifies the error EOVERFLOW.
Linux used to give EFBIG for this case, but 2.6.24 fixed this.
Also, add some text to describe the error scenario in
more detail.
pread.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that glibc emulation for these calls uses lseek(2)
(This makes it clearer that the emulated calls are not atomic.)
recv.2
send.2
Michael Kerrisk
Make names of "address" and "address length" args more consistent
Make the names of these arguments more consistent with other
sockets man pages.
recv.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify details when returned address is truncated
If the recvfrom() returned address is truncated, the 'fromlen'
argument indicates the actual size of the address, rather than
a count of the number of bytes in the truncated buffer.
Also clarify that the 'from' argument can be NULL, in which
case 'fromlen' should is unused, and should also be NULL.
Michael Kerrisk
Internet datagram and netlink sockets support MSG_TRUNC for recv(2)
Internet datagram (since Linux 2.4.27/2.6.8),
and netlink (since Linux 2.6.22) sockets support
the MSG_TRUNC flag for recv(2).
select.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrote text describing feature test macros requirement for pselect()
select_tut.2
Michael Kerrisk
Fix SHUT_FD* macros in example program
Add "do {} while (0)"
set_thread_area.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that glibc provides no wrapper for this system call
setfsgid.2
setfsuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Simplify version information and move to a VERSIONS section
setsid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rework RETURN VALUE section; add an ERRORS section
setup.2
Michael Kerrisk
Relocate some CONFORMING TO text to VERSIONS and NOTES
stat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document EOVERFLOW error
Michael Kerrisk
Refer reader to major() and minor() to decompose a device ID
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Fix version numbers for a few system calls
Some 2.6 system calls were wrongly mentioned as also being
backported into a 2.4.x kernel.
uname.2
Michael Kerrisk
DESCRIPTION: Point reader at NOTES for further info on field lengths
atan.3
Andries E. Brouwer
Fix return value description
The correct range for the return value is [-pi/2,pi/2].
(mtk's fix in the last change to the return value text was
a botch-up of a (correct) suggestion by Nicolas François.)
atexit.3
Michael Kerrisk
atexit() and on_exit(3) register functions on the same list
Michael Kerrisk
Terminating registered function using longjmp() is undefined
According to POSIX.1, using longjmp() to terminate execution of
a function registered using atexit() produces undefined results.
Michael Kerrisk
Calling exit(3) more than once produces undefined results
If an exit handler itself calls exit(3), the results are
undefined (see the POSIX.1-2001 specification of exit(3)).
Michael Kerrisk
The same exit handler may be registered multiple times
Michael Kerrisk
Calling _exit(2) terminates processing of exit handlers
Michael Kerrisk
Terminating registered function using longjmp() is undefined
According to POSIX.1, using longjmp() to terminate execution of
a function registered using atexit() produces undefined results.
bindresvport.3
Mats Wichmann
SYNOPSIS: s/\*\*/*/ in prototype
Michael Kerrisk
Fix errors regarding port used, plus other rewrites
Glibc's bindresvport() takes no notice of sin->sin_port:
it always returns an arbitrary reserved port in the
anonymous range (512-1023). (Reported by Mats Wichmann.)
Also:
* Add EADDRINUSE and EACCES errors.
* Mention use of getsockname(2).
* Other minor rewrites and reorderings of the text.
* Explicitly note that glib's bindresvport() ignores
sin->sin_port.
* Change license There's now virtually no text remaining from
the 1.70 version of this page.
Reviewed-by: Mats Wichmann
Reviewed-by: Petr Baudis
dlopen.3
Petr Baudis
Describe confusing dladdr() behavior
dladdr() will act unexpectedly if called from non-pic code on a
compile-time-generated function pointer.
fmemopen.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add VERSIONS section
Petr Baudis
SEE OPEN: Add fopencookie(3)
fopencookie(3) is used to implement fmemopen().
fopen.3
Petr Baudis
SEE ALSO: Add fmemopen(3) and fopencookie(3)
fopencookie.3
Petr Baudis
fopencookie() needs _GNU_SOURCE feature test macro
getaddrinfo.3
Petr Baudis
Document results ordering and /etc/gai.conf
This patch documents the order of the getaddrinfo(3) results
(RFC 3484), how should the application deal with that,
mentions the extremely common cause of having multiple
results per query (both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses available)
and mentions /etc/gai.conf.
(mtk: Minor tweaks, and note glibc version for /etc/gai.conf)
isatty.3
Michael Kerrisk
Complete rewrite of this page, with rather more detail
memmem.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove sentence saying that libc 5.0.9 is still widely used
That was a *long* time ago.
on_exit.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document handling of registrations on fork(2) and execve(2)
Treatment in these cases is the same as for atexit(3).
Michael Kerrisk
Arg given to registered function is status from *last* call to exit()
It's a subtle point, but if a registered function itself
calls exit(3), then subsequent functions that were registered
with on_exit(3) will see the exit status given to the more
recent exit(3) call.
Michael Kerrisk
Note that same function may be registered multiple times
setlocale.3
locale.7
Michael Kerrisk
Clean up the description of LANGUAGE environment variable
Clean up the $LANGUAGE description, by removing bogus comments
from setlocale(3) and expanding the mention in locale(7).
Maybe you will decide that a more detailed description
should be left to the gettext(3) documentation, but I
actually care about the invisible part of the patch more
since the comments have put me off the track initially
($LANGUAGE has nothing to do with setlocale(3) and is
completely isolated to gettext, as obvious from the
glibc sources).
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
/proc/stat: s/minor/disk_idx/ in description of /proc/stat
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=225619
capabilities.7
Drake Wilson
Various minor fixes as per Debian bug 471029
The relevant pieces of
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471029 are:
- Delete duplicate subentry for KEYCTL_CHOWN/KEYCTL_SETPERM
operations in the CAP_SYS_ADMIN entry. (It feels like that
capability entry should be converted to a list, but I've
left it in semicolon-delimited form for now.)
- Remove text about ENFILE from the text about the
/proc/sys/fs/file-max limit in the CAP_SYS_ADMIN entry, since
this is already described in the man pages for the relevant
ofile-creating system calls.
- Correct or clarify a few other bits of grammar and such;
see the diff file itself for details.
socket.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add tcp(7) and udp(7)
tcp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Relocate out-of-band data discussion
Move to a new subsection entitled "Sockets API".
Michael Kerrisk
Note that MSG_PEEK can be used on out-of-band data
time.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add clock_gettime(3)
unix.7
Michael Kerrisk
Unix domain sockets don't support the recv() MSG_TRUNC flag
Michael Kerrisk
Retitled subsection "(Un)supported features" to "Sockets API"
This is consistent with the recent change in tcp(7).
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.16 ====================
Released: 2009-01-13, Christchurch
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
Florentin Duneau <fduneau@gmail.com>
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
pthread_getcpuclockid.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting pthread_getcpuclockid(3)
libc.7
Michael Kerrisk
New page giving brief overview of C libraries on Linux
rtld-audit.7
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting dynamic linker auditing API
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
ld.so.8
Petr Baudis
Document LD_AUDIT
Petr Baudis
Document LD_POINTER_GUARD
New and changed links
---------------------
gethostid.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new page location in Section 3
sethostid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Change link to point to new page location in Section 3
sethostid.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to relocated page in Section 3
glibc.7
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new libc.7
Global changes
--------------
syscalls.2
feature_test_macros.7
standards.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add libc(7)
dlopen.3
ld.so.8
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add rtld-audit(7)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
gethostid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Move to Section 3
The interfaces documented in this page are purely glibc.
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Kernel 2.6.28 adds accept4()
clock_getres.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add pthread_getcpuclockid(3)
fmemopen.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix VERSIONS information
gethostid.3
Michael Kerrisk
Before version 2.2, glibc stored the host ID in /var/adm/hostid
Also: rewrite some text describing the /etc/hostid file, so that
this location is referred to just once on the page.
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: describe return value of sethostid()
Michael Kerrisk
Added BUGS section noting that ID can't be guaranteed to be unique
Michael Kerrisk
Added ERRORS section describing errors for sethostid()
Michael Kerrisk
Update section number to reflect relocation into Section 3
printf.3
Michael Kerrisk
Source and destination buffers may not overlap for *s*printf()
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7075
Some existing code relies on techniques like the following to
append text to a buffer:
$ cat s.c
#include <stdio.h>
char buf[80] = "not ";
main()
{
sprintf(buf, "%sfail", buf);
puts(buf);
return 0;
}
$ cc s.c
$ ./a.out
not fail
However, the standards say the results are undefined if source
and destination buffers overlap, and with suitable compiler
options, recent changes can cause unexpected results:
$ cc -v 2>&1 | grep gcc
gcc version 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036] (SUSE Linux)
$ cc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE -O2 s.c
$ ./a.out
fail
readdir.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite text describing 'dirent' fields standardized in POSIX.1
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify text for return value/errno setting for end-of-stream case
nscd.8
Petr Baudis
Correct NOTES section on reloading configuration files
It behaved this way at least since
"Sun Oct 18 15:02:11 1998 +0000",
some four months after including the nscd implementation
in glibc. But there does seem to be a short window between
glibc-2.1 and glibc-2.1.3 when nscd -i was not available,
I don't think it's worth muddling the point of the page
with that, though.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.17 ====================
Released: 2009-01-19, Hobart
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro@tee.gr>
Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@mmj.dk>
Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
endian.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting byte order conversion functions
Document functions (new in glibc 2.9) for conversion between
host byte order and big-/little- endian byte order:
htobe16(), htole16(), be16toh(), le16toh(),
htobe32(), htole32(), be32toh(), le32toh(),
htobe64(), htole64(), be64toh(), le64toh()
getifaddrs.3
Petr Baudis
New page documenting getifaddrs(3) and freeifaddrs(3)
Many edits and changes of Petr's initial draft by mtk
cp1251.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting CP 1251 (Windows Cyrillic) character set
iso-8859-10.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-10 character set
iso_8859-13.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-13 character set
iso_8859-14.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-14 character set
iso_8859-3.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-3 character set
iso_8859-5.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-5 character set
iso_8859-8.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-8 character set
koi8-u.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting KOI8-U character set
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc interfaces for limiting kernel memory usage
Document the following /proc files that were added in
Linux 2.6.28:
/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances
/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches
netdevice.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document recently added interface flags
IFF_LOWER_UP (since Linux 2.6.17)
IFF_DORMANT (since Linux 2.6.17)
IFF_ECHO (since Linux 2.6.25)
Documentation taken from comments in <linux/if.h>
New and changed links
---------------------
freeifaddrs.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new getifaddrs.3
htobe16.3
htole16.3
be16toh.3
le16toh.3
htobe32.3
htole32.3
be32toh.3
le32toh.3
htobe64.3
htole64.3
be64toh.3
le64toh.3
Michael Kerrisk
New links to new endian.3
iso-8859-10.7
iso_8859_10.7
latin6.7
Michael Kerrisk
New links to new iso_8859-10.7
iso-8859-13.7
iso_8859_13.7
latin7.7
Michael Kerrisk
New links to new iso_8859-13.7
iso-8859-14.7
iso_8859_14.7
latin8.7
Michael Kerrisk
New links to new iso_8859-14.7
iso-8859-3.7
iso_8859_3.7
latin3.7
Michael Kerrisk
New links to new iso_8859-3.7
iso-8859-5.7
iso_8859_5.7
Michael Kerrisk
New links to new iso_8859-5.7
iso-8859-8.7
iso_8859_8.7
Michael Kerrisk
New links to new iso_8859-8.7
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bind.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add getifaddrs(3)
epoll_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document EMFILE error
This error is encountered when the limit imposed by
/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances is encountered.
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify distinction between epoll instance and epoll file descriptor
Reword so that the notion of an epoll instance is made clear,
and made distinct from the notion of an epoll file descriptor.
Some other minor rewordings also.
epoll_ctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Reordered parts of the text
Michael Kerrisk
Introduce notion of epoll instance
Introduce notion of epoll instance as distinct from
epoll file descriptor. Plus other wording clean-ups.
Michael Kerrisk
Document ENOSPC error (new in Linux 2.6.28)
This error results when the limit imposed by
/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches is encountered.
epoll_wait.2
Michael Kerrisk
Introduce the notion of an epoll instance into text
getdents.2
Michael Kerrisk
Before kernel < 2.6.4, 'd_type' was effectively always DT_UNKNOWN
gethostid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rename file (was misnamed gethostd.2 in previous release)
getsockname.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add getifaddrs(3)
signalfd.2
Michael Kerrisk
Fix description of fork() semantics
The page text described the semantics of the initial
implementation of signalfd(). These were changed early on,
but the man page wasn't updated.
byteorder.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add endian(3)
longjmp.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify wording re saving/restoring signal mask
Michael Kerrisk
siglongjmp() restores signal mask iff 'savesigs' was non-zero
Note that siglongjmp() restores signal mask if, and only
if, 'savesigs' argument of sigsetjmp() was non-zero. (Previous
text omitted the "and only if".)
memccpy.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix CONFORMING TO: s/C99/POSIX.1-2001/
Michael Kerrisk
If the memory areas overlap, the results are undefined
sethostid.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rename file (was misnamed sethostd.3 in previous release)
setjmp.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify wording re saving/restoring signal mask
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify when setjmp() provides BSD vs System V signal mask semantics
strsep.3
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: explicitly list problems afflicting strsep()
Previously, the page said this function suffered the same
problems as strtok(), but in fact strsep() doesn't suffer
from all of the same problems as strtok(), so explicitly
list just the problems of strsep() in the strsep.3 page.
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Add pointer to epoll(7) for description of epoll /proc files
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Various wording changes to improve clarity and consistency
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.18 ====================
Released: 2009-02-10, Christchurch
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
Christian Siebert <christian.siebert@s2000.tu-chemnitz.de>
Christopher Head <chead@telus.net>
Florentin Duneau <fduneau@gmail.com>
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
Lefteris Dimitroulakis <edimitro@tee.gr>
Lucio Maciel <luciofm@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Sebastian Kienzl <seb@riot.org>
Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi>
Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
armscii-8.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ArmSCII-8 character set
iso_8859-11.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-11 character set
iso_8859-4.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page documenting ISO 8859-4 character set
iso_8859-6.7
Lefteris Dimitroulakis
New page describing ISO 8859-6 character set
pthread_kill.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting pthread_kill(3)
pthread_kill_other_threads_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting pthread_kill_other_threads_np(3)
pthread_sigmask.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting pthread_sigmask(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
clock_getres.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW, new in 2.6.28
New and changed links
---------------------
clock_gettime.2
clock_settime.2
clock_getres.3
clock_gettime.3
clock_settime.3
Michael Kerrisk
Update links to reflect the fact that clock_* pages are now in
Section 2
iso-8859-11.7
iso_8859_11.7
Michael Kerrisk
New links to new iso_8859-11.7
iso-8859-4.7
iso_8859_4.7
latin4.7
Michael Kerrisk
New links to new iso_8859-4.7
iso-8859-6.7
iso_8859_6.7
Michael Kerrisk
New links to new iso_8859-6.7
tis-620.7
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new iso_8859-11.7
Global changes
--------------
clock_nanosleep.2
getrusage.2
timerfd_create.2
clock.3
clock_getcpuclockid.3
ftime.3
pthread_create.3
pthread_getcpuclockid.3
pthread_tryjoin_np.3
sem_wait.3
time.7
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: Fix xrefs to clock_*.? pages to reflect move to section 2
clock_nanosleep.2
execve.2
fork.2
nanosleep.2
sigaction.2
timerfd_create.2
pthread_getcpuclockid.3
ualarm.3
usleep.3
pthreads.7
time.7
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/(3)/(2)/ in section number xrefs for timer_*() API
The POSIX timers API is implemented (mostly) within the kernel,
so thse interfaces are system calls. Although there are as yet
no man pages, when they are added they should be in Section 2,
not 3. Therefore fix those pages that currently refer to these
interfaces as being in Section 3.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
capget.2
Andi Kleen
Add some details and relocate a paragraph
While writing a little program using capset
I found the capset manpage quite light on crucial
details and I had to resort to RTFS.
This patch improves the points I found unclear
and also moves one misplaced paragraph around.
clock_getres.2
Michael Kerrisk
Move page from Section 3 to Section 2
eventfd.2
Michael Kerrisk
glibc eventfd() supports the use of eventfd2() since version 2.9
fork.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add daemon(3)
getdents.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove unneeded HAVE_D_TYPE from example program
Since d_type will always just return DT_UNKNOWN before
kernel 2.6.4, we don't need to use a conditional for
determining whether we use this flag.
nanosleep.2
Michael Kerrisk
Relocated misplaced BUGS heading
select_tut.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clean up error checking in example program (no semantic changes)
Michael Kerrisk
Many parts tidied and rewritten
Remove some redundant text, clarify various pieces,
tidy example code, etc.
Michael Kerrisk
Bug fixes + rewrites in example program
Sebastien pointed out that the first example program
wrongly thinks it can count signals.
Also, some further rewrites by mtk.
socket.2
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: Remove discussion SOCK_UUCP
As time goes on, this sentence becomes less a piece of humor,
and more a puzzle.
stat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that open(O_NOATIME) also causes st_atime not to be updated
timerfd_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add BUGS noting that timerfd supports fewer clock types than
timer_create()
btowc.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add wctob(3)
clock_getcpuclockid.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add pthread_getcpuclockid(3)
cos.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add sincos(3)
fexecve.3
Timo Sirainen
Note that fexecve() depends on a mounted /proc
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514043
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: note addition of fexecve() in POSIX.1-2008
Michael Kerrisk
'fd' must be opened read-only and refer to a file that is executable
fmemopen.3
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: note that these functions are in POSIX.1-2008
getifaddrs.3
Lucio Maciel
Fix memory leak in example program
Petr Baudis
Various small fixes
getpwnam.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add getspnam(3)
getumask.3
Michael Kerrisk
Updated glibc version number in NOTES
ilogb.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add significand(3)
intro.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add libc(7)
isalpha.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix statement that isalpa() is obsolete; should be isascii()
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512709
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add toascii(3)
mq_notify.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add cross reference to pthread_attr_init(3)
pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Fix declaration of 'attr'
pthread_getcpuclockid.3
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: fix type of 'thread'
qsort.3
Michael Kerrisk
EXAMPLE: remove unnecessary "#include <unistd.h>"
random.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add random_r(3)
remainder.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add div(3)
scandir.3
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: alphasort() and scandir() are added to POSIX.1-2008
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: note that versionsort() was added to glibc in
version 2.1
sem_wait.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add clock_gettime(2)
significand.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add CONFORMING TO noting that this function is unstandardized
sigwait.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add EXAMPLES section referring to pthread_sigmask(3)
sin.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add sincos(3)
stpcpy.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add BUGS section noting the possibility of buffer overruns
Michael Kerrisk
Add missing pieces/fix various problems in example program
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: stpcpy() is nowadays on the BSDs
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add stpcpy.3
wcscasecmp.3
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: note that this function is added in POSIX.1-2008
wcsdup.3
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: note that this function was added in POSIX.1-2008
wcsncasecmp.3
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: note that this function is added in POSIX.1-2008
wctob.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add btowc(3)
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Remove mention of epoll/max_user_instances
(Since this interface appeared in 2.6.28, and then
disappeared in 2.6.29.)
ascii.7
Michael Kerrisk
Update SEE ALSO list to include pages added in 3.17
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add recently added iso_8859-*(7) pages
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
remove documentation of /proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_instances
This /proc interface appeared in 2.6.28. but will be
removed in 2.6.29.
Also, document change in default value of
/proc/sys/fs/epoll/max_user_watches (was 1/32 of lowmem,
now 1/25 of lowmem).
koi8-r.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add koi8-u(7); remove crufty text
standards.7
Michael Kerrisk
Update to note that latest POSIX/SUS was ratified in 2008
time.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add pthread_getcpuclockid(3)
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.19 ====================
Released: 2009-02-20, Putaruru
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Christian Siebert <christian.siebert@gmail.com>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Jens Thoms Toerring <jt@toerring.de>
Kir Kolyshkin <kir@openvz.org>
Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@gmail.com>
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Sami Liedes <sliedes@cc.hut.fi>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
timer_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting timer_create(2)
timer_delete.2
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting timer_delete(2)
timer_getoverrun.2
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting timer_getoverrun(2)
timer_settime.2
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting timer_settime(2) and timer_gettime(2)
New and changed links
---------------------
timer_gettime.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new timer_settime.2
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Kir Kolyshkin
Trivial punctuation fixes in SEE ALSO
In SEE ALSO, when a few man pages are referenced, those
are divided by commas. Every reference is on a separate
line, and all lines but the last one should end with
comma. I spotted one place where there is no comma in
between references, and mocked up an awk script to find
similar places:
for f in man*/*; do
awk '
/^.SH ["]SEE ALSO["]/ {
sa=1; print "== " FILENAME " =="; print; next
}
/^\.(PP|SH)/ {
sa=0; no=0; next
}
/^\.BR/ {
if (sa==1) {
print;
if (no == 1)
print "Missing comma in " FILENAME " +" FNR-1; no=0
}
}
/^\.BR .*)$/ {
if (sa==1)
no=1;
next
}
/\.\\"/ {next}
/.*/ {
if (sa==1) {
print; next
}
}
' $f;
done | fgrep 'Missing comma'
This patch fixes all the places found by the above script.
Also, there is an extra dot at the end of uri.7 "SEE ALSO"
section. Removed as per man-pages(7) recommendation.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
getitimer.2
clock_getcpuclockid.3
time.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add timer_create(2)
getitimer.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rename arguments for consistency with other timer pages
Also some other minor wording improvements
splice.2
Mark Hills
ERRORS: Add EINVAL case for file opened O_APPEND
Target file cannot be opened in append (O_APPEND) mode
In kernels prior to v2.6.27 splice() to a file in
append mode is broken, and since that version it is
disallowed. It is possible this behaviour may change
in the future; see the kernel commit message
(efc968d450e013049a662d22727cf132618dcb2f) for more
information.
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that getpmsg(2) and putmsg(2) are unimplemented
See See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514771
timerfd_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: add EFAULT
timerfd_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rename timerfd_settime() 'curr_value' arg to 'old_value'
For consistency with related pages.
vm86.2
Parag Warudkar
CONFORMING TO: Add 32-bit specific
Note that this call is only on *32-bit* Intel
mq_open.3
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: add ENOENT error for name == "/"
mq_open.3
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: Add EACCES error for name containing > 1 slash
sem_open.3
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: add EINVAL error where name == "/"
sem_open.3
Jens Thoms Toerring
Add case of non-well-formed name to ENOENT
shm_open.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify rules for construction of shared memory object names
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
Reported by: Goerghe Cosorea <gheorghe.coserea@gmail.com>
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Put /proc/modules entry in correct alphabetical order
ascii.7
Kir Kolyshkin
Fix formatting of tables on second page to use monospaced font
mq_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify construction rules for message queue object names
sem_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify construction rules for semaphore object names
See also http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.apps/browse_thread/thread/b4a67caa765cb65f
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.20 ====================
Released: 2009-03-31, Christchurch
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alan Curry <pacman@kosh.dhis.org>
Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>
Chunming Chang <cchang@aerohive.com>
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Jens Thoms Toerring <jt@toerring.de>
Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>
Leandro A. F. Pereira <leandro@tia.mat.br>
Martin Gebert <martin.gebert@alpha-bit.de>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike O'Connor <stew@vireo.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@femur.dyndns.org>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Simon Gomizelj <simongmzlg@gmail.com>
Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org>
Teddy Hogeborn <teddy@fukt.bsnet.se>
Walter Jontofsohn <wjontofs@atriumberlin.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
cpuid.4
Andi Kleen
New page for cpuid access device
msr.4
Andi Kleen
New page documenting x86 CPU MSR access device
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
proc.5
Américo Wang
Document /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sysrq-trigger
Global changes
--------------
timer_create.2
timer_delete.2
timer_getoverrun.2
timer_settime.2
numa.7
Michael Kerrisk
Make source layout of 'Link with' text consistent with other pages
No actual change to formatted output, but this makes the
page sources more consistent for the purpose of grepping, etc.
mempcpy.3
signbit.3
significand.3
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: acknowledge FSF in copyright
These pages are heavily based on original material in
glibc info pages, but the comments in the source of the pages
did not acknowledge the FSF copyright on the original material.
Fix that.
accept.2
read.2
recv.2
send.2
write.2
Michael Kerrisk
Fix discussion of EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK errors
For a non-blocking socket, POSIX.1-2001/2008 allow either
EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK to be returned in cases where a call
would have blocked. Although these constants are defined
with the same value on most Linux architectures (PA-RISC
is the exception), POSIX.1 does not require them to have
the same value. Therefore, a portable application using
the sockets API should test for both errors when checking
this case.
(NB POSIX.1 only mentions EWOULDBLOCK in the context of
the sockets interfaces.)
Change made after a note cross-posted on linux-arch@vger,
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.hppa/5615
and a suggestion for write(2) from Carlos O'Donell
basename.3
getgrent.3
getgrnam.3
getpwent.3
getpwnam.3
readdir.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that returned pointer should not be given to free()
armscii-8.7
cp1251.7
iso_8859-10.7
iso_8859-11.7
iso_8859-13.7
iso_8859-14.7
iso_8859-15.7
iso_8859-16.7
iso_8859-2.7
iso_8859-3.7
iso_8859-4.7
iso_8859-5.7
iso_8859-6.7
iso_8859-7.7
iso_8859-8.7
iso_8859-9.7
koi8-r.7
koi8-u.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add explicit character set encoding to first line of source
Nowadays mandb has provision to understand a character set
encoding that is explicitly indicated in the first line
of the source. As pointed out by Colin Watson, including
such an explicit indication on pages encoded in anything
other than ISO 8859-1 or UTF-8 is useful for man-pages
that aren't shipped in UTF-8.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519209
and for some other background (responded to by Colin Watson
in the above report):
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.internationalization.linux/6040
("man page encoding", 5 Jul 2005)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk
VERSIONS: glibc support is provided since version 2.10
fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove mention of EWOULDBLOCK from discussion of mandatory locking
In the kernel, the error on encountering a mandatory lock is
EAGAIN. Although EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are the same on
most Linux architectures, on some they are not, so don't
mention EWOULDBLOCK as it is misleading. (Mea culpa.)
getcontext.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of getcontext()
getitimer.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that POSIX.1-2008 recommends POSIX timers API instead of this API
gettimeofday.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that POSIX.1-2008 recommends clock_gettime() instead of this API
ptrace.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note use of 'data' for PTRACE_SYS{CALL,EMU} and PTRACE_*_SINGLESTEP
These operations use the 'data' argument as a signal number,
like PTRACE_CONT.
ptrace.2
Mike Frysinger
only reference <sys/user.h>
The kernel no longer installs linux/user.h, so update
references to sys/user.h.
recv.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add 'iovec' defn to defn of 'msghdr' structure
The 'msghdr' structure includes a field of type 'iovec',
so show the definition of that structure in this page.
rename.2
Michael Kerrisk
Make ENOENT description consistent with POSIX.1-2008
timerfd_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: add EINVAL for invalid 'flags' for timer_settime()
truncate.2
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Fix description of feature test macro requirements
After a report by Arvid Norlander.
bcopy.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that POSIX.1-2008 removes specification of bcopy()
bsd_signal.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that POSIX.1-2008 recommends sigaction(2) instead of this API
ctime.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that POSIX.1-2008 recommends strftime(3) instead of these functions
ecvt.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that POSIX.1-2008 recommends sprintf(3) instead of these functions
gcvt.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that POSIX.1-2008 recommends sprintf(3) instead of this function
getcwd.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that getcwd() should be used instead of the obsolete getwd()
getgrent.3
Michael Kerrisk
Returned buffer may be statically allocated and overwritten by
later calls
gethostbyname.3
Michael Kerrisk
POSIX.1-2008 recommends getaddrinfo(3) and getnameinfo(3) instead
getnetent_r.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix function name in text: s/getnetbynumber_r/getnetbyaddr_r/
The SYNOPSIS showed the right function name (getnetbyaddr_r),
but the text repeatedly used the wrong name (getnetbynumber_r).
Probably, this was a cut-and-paste error.
getpwent.3
Michael Kerrisk
Returned buffer may be statically allocated and overwritten by
later calls
index.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that POSIX.1-2008 recommends strchr(3) and strrchr(3) instead
isalpha.3
Michael Kerrisk
Explain why POSIX.1-2008 marks isascii(3) obsolete
lockf.3
Nikanth Karthikesan
Update pointer to documentation in kernel source
makecontext.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that POSIX.1-2008 recommends the use of POSIX threads instead
mq_notify.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document the POSIX.1-2008 optional EINVAL error
POSIX.1-2008 allows an optional EINVAL error if
notification==NULL and the caller is not currently
registered to receive notifications.
posix_fallocate.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that EINVAL also occurs of 'len' *equals* zero
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12919
posix_fallocate.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008 specifications for EINVAL error
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12919
posix_memalign.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document handling of size==0 case for posix_memalign()
pthread_exit.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix error in DESCRIPTION: s/pthread_create/pthread_exit/
realpath.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rework resolved_path==NULL discussion w.r.t. POSIX.1-200[18]
Although the page already mentioned the resolved_path==NULL
feature, and that this feature was added in POSIX.1-2008, there
was still some crufty text in BUGS that hadn't been updated to
reflect the POSIX.1-2008 changes.
Also, some other minor wording and grammar fixes.
scalb.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that POSIX.1-2008 recommends scalbln*(3) instead
seekdir.3
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Fix type of 'offset' argument: s/off_t/long/
And add a NOTES section pointing out that 'off_t'
was indeed used in glibc 2.1.1 and earlier.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519230
sem_post.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document EOVERFLOW error
shm_open.3
Michael Kerrisk
Recast discussion on name length to exclude terminating NULL byte
Probably it's clearer to describe the length of the IPC object
name as a count that excludes the null terminator.
siginterrupt.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that POSIX.1-2008 recommends sigaction() instead
sigset.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note APIs that POSIX.1-2008 recommends instead of these obsolete APIs
strftime.3
Michael Kerrisk
Small fix to description of %G
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=516677
strftime.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add details on ISO 8601 week-based dates
ISO 8602 week-based dates are relevant for %G, %g, and %V,
and the existing details on these dates are a little thin.
strftime.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove mention of year from ISO 8601 standard
The text mentioned the 1988 8601 standard, but there have
already been two revisions of the standard since then, so
simply remove mention of the year.
telldir.3
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Fix return type: s/off_t/long/
And add a NOTES section pointing out that 'off_t'
was indeed used in glibc 2.1.1 and earlier.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519230
timeradd.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that on some systems, <=, >=, == don't work for timercmp()
timeradd.3
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Fix return types of timerisset() and timercmp()
toascii.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note why POSIX.1-2008 marks this function obsolete
console_ioctl.4
Alan Curry
Fix 'argp' type for KDGETLED description
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517485
group.5
Michael Kerrisk
Various minor rewordings and improvements
resolv.conf.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document 'ip6-bytestring' option
resolv.conf.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document 'edns0' option
resolv.conf.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document 'ip6-dotint' / 'no-ip6-dotint' option
resolv.conf.5
Michael Kerrisk
Note that maximum value of 'ndots' option is capped to 15
resolv.conf.5
Michael Kerrisk
Note that maximum value of 'timeout' option is capped to 30
hier.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add description of /srv
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520904
ip.7
Michael Kerrisk
Fix type used to declare sin6_port
The page should use the type specified by POSIX,
rather than the (equivalent) type used in the kernel
ipv6.7
Teddy Hogeborn
Fix types used to declare sin6_family and sin6_port
The page should use the types specified by POSIX,
rather than the (equivalent) types used in the kernel.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517074
mq_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Recast discussion on name length to exclude terminating NULL byte
Probably it's clearer to describe the length of the IPC object
name as a count that excludes the null terminator.
rtld-audit.7
Michael Kerrisk
Note that multiple libraries in LD_AUDIT doesn't work
This is reportedly fixed in glibc 2.10.
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9733
sem_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Fix discussion of length of semaphore names
Because of the "sem." prefix added by glibc to a semaphore
name, the limit on the length of the name (excluding the
terminating null byte) is 251 characters.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.21 ====================
Released: 2009-04-15, Los Gatos
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Frank Dana <ferdnyc@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Roman Byshko <rbyshko@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
pthread_setconcurrency.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting pthread_setconcurrency(3) and
pthread_getconcurrency(3)
pthread_yield.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting pthread_yield(3)
New and changed links
---------------------
pthread_getconcurrency.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_setconcurrency(3)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
initrd.4
Michael Kerrisk
Various minor wording improvements
initrd.4
Frank Dana
Add missing word in description
feature_test_macros.7
Michael Kerrisk
Update for glibc 2.10 changes to <features.h>
From glibc 2.10, <features.h> understands the values 200809
for _POSIX_C_SOURCE and 700 for _XOPEN_SOURCE, and makes
corresponding changes to defaults for other feature test macros.
Michael Kerrisk
Add an example program
This example program makes it possible to explore what
feature test macros are set depending on the glibc version
and the macros that are explicitly set.
ldconfig.8
Michael Kerrisk
/etc/ld.so.conf also include libraries found in /lib and /usr/lib
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.22 ====================
Released: 2009-07-25, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Adrian Dewhurst <sailor@sailorfrag.net>
Alexander Lamaison <awl03@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Bryan Østergaard <kloeri@exherbo.org>
Christopher Head <chead@telus.net>
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>
Florentin Duneau <fduneau@gmail.com>
Gokdeniz Karadag <gokdenizk@gmail.com>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de>
Ricardo Garcia <rg3.zeluan@gmail.com>
Rui Rlex <rui.rlex@gmail.com>
Shachar Shemesh <shachar@debian.org>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
ku roi <kuroibox@yahoo.de>
sobtwmxt <sobtwmxt@sdf.lonestar.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite crufty text about number of args in older version of clone()
Some bit rot had crept in regarding the discussion of the
number of arguments in older versions of this syscall.
Simplify the text to just say that Linux 2.4 and earlier
didn't have ptid, tls, and ctid arguments.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=533868
Michael Kerrisk
Fix version number for CLONE_NEWIPC
It's 2.6.19, not 2.4.19.
Michael Kerrisk
Fix errors in argument names in text (ptid, ctd)
execve.2
Mike Frysinger
Remove erroneous statement that pending signal set is cleared
on execve(2).
fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk
The kernel source file mandatory.txt is now mandatory-locking.txt
Michael Kerrisk
The Documentation/* files are now in Documentation/filesystems
flock.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove unneeded reference to Documentation/mandatory.txt
Mandatory locks are only implemented by fcntl() locking
Michael Kerrisk
The Documentation/* files are now in Documentation/filesystems
fork.2
Jeff Moyer
Document fork() behaviour for the Linux native AIO io_context
It was noted on lkml that the fork behaviour is documented
for the POSIX AIO calls, but not for the Linux native calls.
Here is a patch which adds a small blurb that folks will
hopefully find useful.
Upon fork(), the child process does not inherit the
io_context_t data structures returned by io_setup,
and thus cannot submit further asynchronous I/O or
reap event completions for said contexts.
getdents.2
Michael Kerrisk
The d_type field is fully supported on Btrfs
mount.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document MS_STRICTATIME, update description of MS_RELATIME
Starting with Linux 2.6.30, the MS_RELATIME behavior became
the default, and MS_STRICTATIME is required to obtain the
traditional semantics.
poll.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove EBADF error from ERRORS
As reported by Motohiro:
"man poll" describe this error code.
>ERRORS
> EBADF An invalid file descriptor was given in one of the sets.
but current kernel implementation ignore invalid file descriptor,
not return EBADF.
...
In the other hand, SUSv3 talk about
> POLLNVAL
> The specified fd value is invalid. This flag is only valid in the
> revents member; it shall ignored in the events member.
and
> If the value of fd is less than 0, events shall be ignored, and
> ireevents shall be set to 0 in that entry on return from poll().
but, no desribe EBADF.
(see http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/poll.html)
So, I think the implementation is correct.
Why don't we remove EBADF description?
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk
Expand description of si_utime and si_stime fields of siginfo_t
stat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Improve wording of ENOTDIR error
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add preadv() and pwritev(), new in kernel 2.6.30
wait.2
Gokdeniz Karadag
Document CLD_DUMPED and CLD_TRAPPED si_code values
daemon.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify discussion of 'noclose' and 'nochdir' arguments
ffs.3
Petr Baudis
SEE ALSO: add memchr(3)
fmemopen.3
Petr Baudis
Relocate BUGS section to correct position
Petr Baudis
NOTES: there is no file descriptor associated with the returned stream
Alexander Lamaison pointed out that this is not obvious
from the documentation, citing an example with passing the
FILE * handle to a function that tries to fstat() its
fileno() in order to determine the buffer size.
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: remove note that these functions are GNU extensions
That sentence is now redundant, since these functions
are added in POSIX.1-2008.
lockf.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify relationship between fcntl() and lockf() locking
memchr.3
Petr Baudis
SEE ALSO: add ffs(3)
readdir.3
Michael Kerrisk
The d_type field is fully supported on Btrfs
setjmp.3
Mike Frysinger
Fix typo and clarify RETURN description
The word "signal" was duplicated in NOTES, and the RETURN
section refers to setjmp() and sigsetjmp(), and mentions
longjmp(), but not siglongjmp().
strcmp.3
Petr Baudis
SEE ALSO: add strverscmp(3)
strcpy.3
Mark Hills
SEE ALSO: Add strdup(3)
complex.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add missing header file for example program
Reimar Döffinger
Fix type used in example code
man complex (from release 3.18) contains the following code:
complex z = cexp(I * pi);
Reading the C99 standard, "complex" is not a valid type,
and several compilers (Intel ICC, ARM RVCT) will refuse to compile.
It should be
double complex z = cexp(I * pi); instead.
environ.7
Michael Kerrisk
Note that last element in environ array is NULL
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=528628
Michael Kerrisk
Wording fixes
mq_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Note that mkdir and mount commands here need superuser privilege
Michael Kerrisk
Fix example showing contents of /dev/mqueue file
standards.7
Michael Kerrisk
Remove references to dated books
Gallmeister and Lewine are rather old books. Probably,
there are better books to consult nowadays, and anyway,
this man page isn't intended to be a bibliography.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.23 ====================
Released: 2009-09-30, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Aaron Gardner <aaron.j.gardner@gmail.com>
Andrey Vihrov <vihrov@gmail.com>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Georg Sauthoff <gsauthof@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
Leslie P. Polzer <sky@viridian-project.de>
Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>
Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>
Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Siward de Groot <siward@ziggo.nl>
rui rlex <rui.rlex@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
execve.2
pipe.2
tee.2
fmemopen.3
mq_notify.3
qsort.3
Michael Kerrisk
Replace use of assert() by code that checks argc
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13569
As noted by Andrey:
The purpose of the assert macro, defined in <assert.h>,
is to provide a tool to check for programming mistakes
or program logic errors. However, the assert macro must
never be used to perform checks for run time errors,
since, with the NDEBUG macro defined, expressions within
the assert macro invocations are not evaluated/checked
for, resulting in behavior that was not originally intended.
...
The pages affected in the core package are
execve(2)
pipe(2)
tee(2)
fmemopen(3)
mq_notify(3)
qsort(3)
getrusage.2
Michael Kerrisk
ru_inblock and ru_oublock are now implemented
These fields of the rusage structure are filled in since
Linux 2.6.22.
mmap.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add brief documentation of MAP_HUGETLB
This flag is new in 2.6.32, and serves a similar
purpose to the shmget() SHM_HUGETLB flag.
open.2
Christoph Hellwig
add some comments on O_SYNC and friends
poll.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify wording describing of 'nfds' argument.
reported by: rui rlex <rui.rlex@gmail.com>
semctl.2
Nicolas François
Remove some redundant words
setpgid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add an explanation of orphaned process groups
splice.2
tee.2
vmsplice.2
Mark Hills
Fix return type
Since glibc 2.7, the return type for these functions
is ssize_t (formerly it was long).
stat.2
Nicolas François
Fix small bug in example program
Since it is a failure, EXIT_FAILURE looks more appropriate
than EXIT_SUCCESS.
umount.2
Michael Kerrisk
glibc only exposes MNT_DETACH and MNT_EXPIRE since version 2.11
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10092
exit.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add a pointer to explanation of orphaned process groups in setpgid(2)
fflush.3
Michael Kerrisk
fflush() discards buffered input
ffs.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that ffsl() and ffsll() are GNU extensions
getaddrinfo.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note nonstandard assumed hints.ai_flags value when hints is NULL
When hints is NULL, glibc assumes hints.ai_flags is
AI_V4MAPPED|AI_ADDRCONFIG whereas POSIX says 0.
According to Ulrich Drepper, glibc's behavior is better.
getmntent.3
Mike Frysinger
setmntent() argument is 'filename' not 'fp'
The description of setmntent() formerly used the wrong
argument name.
posix_fallocate.3
Nicolas François
Fix reference to POSIX.1-2008
The sentence mentions twice POSIX.1-2001.
I guess the second one should be POSIX.1-2008.
This should be checked in the standard.
setenv.3
Michael Kerrisk
Improve ERRORS section
Add ENOMEM error; improve EINVAL description. Also, make
RETURN VALUE section a little more accurate in its mention
of errno.
strftime.3
Nicolas François
Fix error in description: s/Monday/Thursday/
proc.5
Nicolas François
Fix page cross reference
max_user_watches is better explained in epoll(7) than inotify(7).
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
dmesg is in section 1, not section 8
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
FS UID manipulations affect CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE and CAP_MKNOD
Nowadays, file system UID manipulations also affect
CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE (since 2.6.3) and CAP_MKNOD (since 2.6.29).
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Fix version number for CAP_MKNOD in FS UID manipulations
A recent patch said "since 2.6.29". It should have
been "since 2.6.30".
capabilities.7
Nicolas François
Reword a bad sentence in description of capability bounding set.
mq_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Change documented ranges for msg_max and msgsize_max
Linux 2.6.28 changed the permissible ranges for
these /proc files.
tcp.7
udp.7
Nicolas François
Replace references to syctl interfaces with /proc
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.24 ====================
Released: 2010-02-25, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@2008.43-1.org>
Bela Lubkin <filbo@armory.com>
Bill O. Gallmeister <bog.kernel@gmail.com>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Doug Manley <doug.manley@gmail.com>
Edward Welbourne <eddy@opera.com>
Fang Wenqi <anton.fang@gmail.com>
Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@yahoo.com>
Ihar Hrachyshka <ihar.hrachyshka@gmail.com>
Jann Poppinga <jann.poppinga@gmx.de>
Jason Goldfine-Middleton <jasonwoodfine@gmail.com>
Jason Noakes <jjnoakes@gmail.com>
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Kevin <tsubasa.xw@gmail.com>
Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Markus Peuhkuri <puhuri@iki.fi>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Sam Liao <phyomh@gmail.com>
Samy Al Bahra <sbahra@repnop.org>
Stuart Kemp <skemp@alertlogic.com>
sunjiangangok <sunjiangangok@gmail.com>
Tobias Stoeckmann <tobias@bugol.de>
Vlastimil Babka <caster@gentoo.org>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
add_key.2
David Howells
New page documenting add_key(2)
Taken from keyutils-1.1 package.
keyctl.2
David Howells
New page documenting keyctl(2)
Taken from keyutils-1.1 package.
request_key.2
David Howells
New page documenting request_key(2)
Taken from keyutils-1.1 package.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/non-root/unprivileged/
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/non-privileged/unprivileged/
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: /non-superuser/unprivileged user/
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
s/non-/non/
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is toward removing hyphens after prefixes
like "non-" etc.
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/re-/re/
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is toward removing hyphens after prefixes
like "re-" etc.
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/multi-/multi/
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is toward removing hyphens after prefixes
like "multi-" etc.
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/pre-/pre/
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is toward removing hyphens after prefixes
like "pre-" etc.
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/sub-/sub/
The tendency in English, as prescribed in style guides like
Chicago MoS, is toward removing hyphens after prefixes
like "sub-" etc.
stime.2
time.2
utimensat.2
ctime.3
difftime.3
ftime.3
getspnam.3
mq_receive.3
mq_send.3
rtime.3
sem_wait.3
strftime.3
strptime.3
timeradd.3
rtc.4
core.5
proc.5
icmp.7
time.7
Michael Witten
Global fix: Consistently define the Epoch
All definitions of the Epoch have been refactored to the following:
1970-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 (UTC)
That form is more consistent, logical, precise, and internationally
recognizable than the other variants.
Also, some wording has been altered as well.
spu_create.2
getopt.3
passwd.5
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/non-existing/nonexistent/
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
fchownat.2
fstatat.2
futimesat.2
linkat.2
mkdirat.2
mknodat.2
openat.2
readlinkat.2
renameat.2
symlinkat.2
unlinkat.2
utimensat.2
mkfifoat.3
Michael Kerrisk
Update feature test macro requirements
Starting in glibc 2.10, defining _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700,
or _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809 exposes the declarations of
these functions.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clock_getres.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update text on nonsetabble CLOCK_*_CPUTIME_ID clocks
SUSv3 permits, but does not require CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID and
CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID to be settable.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11972.
execve.2
Colin Watson
Fix description of treatment of caught signals
Caught signals reset to their default on an execve() (not
to being ignored).
fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk
s/F_OWNER_GID/F_OWNER_PGRP/
Peter Zijlstra took the name change I suggested.
Michael Kerrisk
Document F_[SG]ETOWN_EX; update details on F_SETOWN
Linux 2.6.32 adds F_SETOWN_EX and F_GETOWN_EX.
Linux 2.6.12 changed (broke) the former behavior of
F_SETOWN with respect to threads.
intro.2
intro.3
Michael Kerrisk
Make subsection heading consistent with other intro.? pages
These pages used "Copyright Terms"; the other intro.? pages
used "Copyright Conditions". Make these pages like the others.
sendfile.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify behavior when 'offset' is NULL
seteuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note unstandardized behavior for effective ID
POSIX.1 doesn't require that the effective ID can be changed
to the same value it currently has (a no-op). The man page
should note this, since some other implementations
don't permit it.
setgid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Fix EPERM error description
s/effective group ID/real group ID/
This bug lived in man pages for 15 years before Jason
spotted it! I checked back in Linux 1.0, and the behavior
was as the fixed man page describes.
setreuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add more detail on POSIX.1 specification for these syscalls
setuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove crufty statement that seteuid() is not in POSIX
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569812
stime.2
strftime.3
tzset.3
zic.8
Michael Witten
GMT -> UTC (where appropriate)
sync_file_range.2
Christoph Hellwig
Add some big warnings re data integrity
This system call is by design completely unsuitable for any data
integrity operations. Make that very clear in the manpage.
CPU_SET.3
Vlastimil Babka
SYNOPSIS: Fix return types for CPU_COUNT_*()
These functions return 'int' not void'.
confstr.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix feature test macro requirements
daemon.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix description of 'nochdir' argument.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554819
gethostbyname.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document feature test macro requirements for herror() and hstrerror()
Since glibc 2.8, one of _BSD_SOURCE, _SVID_SOURCE,
or _GNU_SOURCE is required.
getline.3
Michael Kerrisk
Update to reflect that these functions were standardized in POSIX.1-2008
getnameinfo.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document feature test macros requirements for NI_MAXHOST and NI_MAXSERV
Since glibc 2.8, one of _BSD_SOURCE, _SVID_SOURCE, or _GNU_SOURCE
must be defined to obtain these definitions.
getopt.3
Jonathan Nieder
Fix feature test macro requirements
memchr.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add feature text macro requirements for memrchr()
nextafter.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix notable error in DESCRIPTION.
"less than y" should be "less than x".
popen.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix feature test macro requirements
pthread_attr_setdetachstate.3
pthread_attr_setschedparam.3
pthread_attr_setschedpolicy.3
Denis Barbier
Argument name is 'attr' not 'thread'
The function argument was misnamed in the DESCRIPTION on these
three pages.
rtnetlink.3
Michael Kerrisk
Various fixes in example code
Edward reported a problem in the example code, where a variable
seems to be misnamed. Upon inspection, there seem to be a few
such instances, and this patch is my best guess at how things
should look.
sched_getcpu.3
Michael Kerrisk
Place correct header file in SYNOPSIS
sleep.3
Bill O. Gallmeister
sleep() puts calling *thread* to sleep (not calling *process*)
sleep.3
Bill O. Gallmeister
Add nanosleep(2) to SEE ALSO
strftime.3
Michael Kerrisk
%z is defined in SUSv3
So, substitute "GNU" tag in man page by "SU".
strftime.3
Michael Witten
Move 822-compliant date format example to EXAMPLES section
The RFC 822-compliant date format given in the description
of `%z' is now moved to the `EXAMPLES' section (note: `EXAMPLE'
has been renamed `EXAMPLES').
Furthermore, that format example is now actually
RFC 822-compliant (using `%y' instead of `%Y') and has been
qualified as being correct only when in the context of at least
an English locale. Also, `%T' is used in place of `%H:%M:%S'.
For completeness, an RFC 2822-compliant format example has been
similarly added.
strftime.3
Michael Witten
Expand introductory text
strftime.3
Michael Witten
Clarification of %z specifier
string.3
Mark Hills
Add stpcpy() to this list of string functions
strptime.3
Michael Kerrisk
Initialize tm structure in example program
undocumented.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove pages now documented
By now, the following are documented:
fopencookie(3)
freeifaddrs(3)
rawmemchr(3)
readdir_r(3)
getutmp(3)
getutmpx(3)
utmpxname(3)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554819
group.5
Michael Kerrisk
s/passwd/password/
The page inconsistently used "passwd" and "password"
to refer to the same field.
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Update securebits discussion to use SECBIT_* flags
feature_test_macros.7
Michael Kerrisk
_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200808 defines _ATFILE_SOURCE
Since glibc 2.10, _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200808 defines _ATFILE_SOURCE
path_resolution.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add readlink(2) to SEE ALSO
Michael Kerrisk
Fix NAME line
The poorly constructed part preceding "\-" causes apropos
not to be able to find the subject.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558300
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
Fix discussion of SIGUNUSED
Clarify that this signal really is synonymous with SIGSYS.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14449
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.25 ====================
Released: 2010-06-20, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com>
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Andrew Klossner <andrew@cesa.opbu.xerox.com>
André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Bo Borgerson <gigabo@gmail.com>
Christian Franke <nobody@nowhere.ws>
Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
David Sommerseth <davids@redhat.com>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Fang Wenqi <anton.fang@gmail.com>
Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto@gmail.com>
Gernot Tenchio <gernot@tenchio.de>
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Ivana Hutarova Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Jan Blunck <jblunck@novell.com>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Jeff Barry <JeffBatHome@myletters.us>
Manfred Schwarb <manfred99@gmx.ch>
Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Martin (Joey) Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mihai Paraschivescu <paraschivescu_mihail@yahoo.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@suse.cz>
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@madism.org>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Robert Wohlrab <robert.wohlrab@gmx.de>
Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Tolga Dalman <tdalman@project-psi.org>
Tom Swigg <swiggtc@lsbu.ac.uk>
Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
migrate_pages.2
Andi Kleen
New page documenting migrate_pages(2).
Andi's text based on the move_pages.2 page;
additional edits by mtk.
migrate_pages(2) was new in Linux 2.6.16.
quotactl.2
Jan Kara
Major updates
Update the page to consolidate information from the
outdated man-pages quotactl.2 page and the quotactl.2
page in the "quota-tools" pachage. The page in "quota-tools"
has now been dropped by Jan Kara, so that there is just one
canonical quotactl.2 page (in pan-pages).
Michael Kerrisk
Various other pieces added to the page by mtk.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document F_SETPIPE_SZ and F_GETPIPE_SZ
These commands, new in kernel 2.6.35, set and get the capacity
of pipes.
madvise.2
Andi Kleen
Document MADV_HWPOISON
Michael Kerrisk
Added documentation of MADV_MERGEABLE and MADV_UNMERGEABLE
These flags (used for Kernel Samepage Merging, KSM)
are new in 2.6.32.
Andi Kleen
Document MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE
This operation was added in Linux 2.6.33.
mmap.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document MAP_UNINITIALIZED flag
New in Linux 2.6.33.
prctl.2
Andi Kleen
Document the hwpoison prctls in 2.6.32
sched_setscheduler.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK
New in Linux 2.6.32
umount.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW
New in Linux 2.6.34.
mkstemp.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document mkstemps() and mkostemps()
These functions are new in glibc 2.11. They allow the template
string to include a suffix after the "XXXXXX" string.
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/vm/memory_failure_early_kill
New in 2.6.32. Description based on the text in
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt.
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/vm/memory_failure_recovery
New in Linux 2.6.32. Description based on the text in
Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt.
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size
socket.7
Jan Engelhardt
Document SO_DOMAIN and SO_PROTOCOL
These read-only socket options were new in Linux 2.6.32.
New and changed links
---------------------
fstatvfs.2
Michael Kerrisk
Adjust link to point to Section 3
fstatvfs.3
statvfs.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to page relocated to Section 3
mkstemps.3
mkostemps.3
Michael Kerrisk
New links to mkstemp.3
mkstemp.3 now describes mkstemps(3) and mkostemps(3).
timer_create.2
timer_delete.2
timer_getoverrun.2
timer_settime.2
getline.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add 'L' to constants in feature test macro specifications
Be consistent with POSIX, which uses constants such as 200809L.
Global changes
--------------
open.2
sync_file_range.2
umount.2
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/filesystem/file system/
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that glibc 2.11 papers over the kernel F_GETOWN bug
Since version 2.11, glibc works around the kernel limitation for
process groups IDs < 4096 by implementing F_GETOWN via F_GETOWN_EX.
futex.2
Michael Kerrisk
Various fixes in SEE ALSO
getpriority.2
nice.2
Francesco Cosoleto
Move renice from section 8 to section 1
getrusage.2
Mark Hills
Add ru_maxrss
See kernel commit 1f10206.
Mark Hills
Description of maintained fields
These descriptions are taken from NetBSD 5.0's getrusage(2).
Michael Kerrisk
Enhanced description of various fields
mlock.2
Michael Kerrisk
/proc/PID/status VmLck shows how much memory a process has locked
After a note from Tom Swigg, it seems sensible mention VmLck here.
mount.2
Petr Uzel
Fix incorrect path
move_pages.2
Andi Kleen
Clarify includes/libraries
mremap.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify existence of fifth argument.
msgctl.2
semctl.2
shmctl.2
Francesco Cosoleto
Move ipcs from section 8 to section 1
open.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove ambiguity in text on NFS and O_EXCL.
poll.2
Michael Kerrisk
Fix discussion of ppoll() timeout argument
1. Rename ppoll)(_ argument to "timeout_ts" to distinguish it
from the poll() argument in the text.
2. More accurately describe the poll() call that is equivalent
to ppoll().
posix_fadvise.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add sync_file_range(2) under SEE ALSO
prctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Correct PR_SET_KEEPCAPS description
The "keep capabilities" flag only affects the treatment of
permitted capabilities, not effective capabilities.
Also: other improvements to make the PR_SET_KEEPCAPS text clearer.
select_tut.2
Michael Kerrisk
Fix bug in example program
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add TRAP_BRANCH and TRAP_HWBKPT to si_code values for SIGTRAP
Michael Kerrisk
Rearrange text describing fields set by sigqueue(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Add details for signals sent by POSIX message queue notifications
Michael Kerrisk
Improve description of various siginfo_t fields
Michael Kerrisk
Add some details for SIGTRAP and si_trapno
Andi Kleen
Document hwpoison signal extensions
statfs.2
Michael Kerrisk
Bring statfs struct type declarations closer to glibc reality
Fang Wenqi
Add definition EXT4_SUPER_MAGIC = 0xEF53
Michael Kerrisk
Document f_frsize field.
statvfs.2
Michael Kerrisk
Move this page to section 3 (since it's a library call)
swapon.2
Ivana Hutarova Varekova
Note effect of CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE on MAX_SWAPFILES
From 2.6.32, MAX_SWAPFILES is decreased by 1 if the kernel is
built with CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE.
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Bring system call list up to date with Linux 2.6.33
Michael Kerrisk
Fix kernel version number for utimes()
cproj.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note fix for C99 conformance in glibc 2.12.
crypt.3
Petr Baudis
Correct note on key portion significance
As Marcel Moreaux notes:
The Linux manpage for crypt()[1] contains the following
statement as the last sentence of the NOTES section:
In the SHA implementation the entire key is significant
(instead of only the first 8 bytes in MD5).
It should probably say "DES" where it says "MD5" (and maybe
"MD5/SHA" where it says "SHA"), because in MD5 password hashing,
the entire key is significant, not just the first 8 bytes.
This patch fixes the wording.
fmemopen.3
Michael Kerrisk
Bug fix in example program
ftw.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that if 'fn' changes CWD, the results are undefined
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify description of fpath argument
As reported by Pierre Habouzit, 'fpath' is not relative
to 'dirpath'. It is either relative to the calling process's
current working directory (if 'dirpath' was relative), or it
is absolute (if 'dirpath' was absolute).
getaddrinfo.3
Christian Franke
Fix a field name mixup: s/ai_family/ai_flags/
getline.3
Robert Wohlrab
Remove unneeded check before free()
The manpage of getline shows an example with an extra NULL pointer
check before it calls free. This is unneeded according to free(3):
If ptr is NULL, no operation is performed.
This patch removes the "if" check.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572508
log.3
log10.3
log2.3
Jan Engelhardt
Add cross-references to other-base logarithmic functions
opendir.3
Petr Baudis
Specify feature test macro requirements for fdopendir(3)
Currently, there is no note on the fact that fdopendir() is
POSIX.2008-only.
openpty.3
Eric Blake
Use const as appropriate
Michael Kerrisk
Note glibc version that added "const" to function arguments
Michael Kerrisk
Explicitly note that these functions are not in POSIX
resolver.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix declaration of dn_comp() in SYNOPSIS
Remove the second 'exp_dn' from the calling signature.
termios.3
Michael Kerrisk
Change NOFLSH text to speak of characters, not signals
core.5
Michael Kerrisk
Update description of coredump_filter
Kernel 2.6.24 added MMF_DUMP_ELF_HEADERS.
Kernel 2.6.28 added MMF_DUMP_HUGETLB_PRIVATE and
MMF_DUMP_HUGETLB_SHARED.
elf.5
Daisuke HATAYAMA
Document PN_XNUM extension
In linux-2.6.34-rc1, an ELF core extension was added; user-land
tools manipulating ELF core dump such as gdb and binutils has
already been modified before; so elf.5 needs to be modified
accordingly.
You can follow information on the ELF extension via the LKML post:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/3/103
Date Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:06:07 +0900 (JST)
Subject ... elf coredump: Add extended numbering support
This Linux-specific extension was added in kernel 2.6.34.
Reviewed-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Michael Kerrisk
Remove EI_BRAND
As reported by Yuri Kozlov and confirmed by Mike Frysinger,
EI_BRAND is not in GABI
(http://www.sco.com/developers/gabi/latest/ch4.eheader.html)
It looks to be a BSDism
Michael Kerrisk
Remove words under '.note': "described below"
The existing text is broken, because there is
no '"Note Section" format' describe below. Simplest
solution is to remove the words "described below".
filesystems.5
Jeff Barry
Add discussion of ntfs and ext4
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Simplify description of /proc/sys and /proc/sys/fs
In the description of these directories, there's no need
to list all the files and subdirectories that they contain;
that information is provided by the entries that follow.
services.5
Yuri Kozlov
Remove crufty reference to nonexistent BUGS section
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document CAP_SYS_RESOURCE and F_SETPIPE_SZ
With CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, a process can increase pipe capacity above
/proc/sys/ps/pipe-max-size.
Michael Kerrisk
Add get_robust_list() info under CAP_SYS_PTRACE
Michael Kerrisk
Add MADV_HWPOISON under CAP_SYS_ADMIN
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
Make a clearer statement about nonportable aspect of signal(2)
Make a clearer statement that signal(2) is less portable for
establishing a signal handler.
socket.7
Michael Kerrisk
Use consistent language to describe read-only socket options
udp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add FIONREAD warning.
Warn that FIONREAD can't can't distinguish case of a zero-length
datagram from the case where no datagrams are available.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.26 ====================
Released: 2010-09-04, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Brian Sutin <Brian.Sutin@hs.utc.com>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Jianhua Li <jhlicc@gmail.com>
Linus Nilsson <lajnold@gmail.com>
Lenaic Huard <lenaic.huard@laposte.net>
mac@mcrowe.com
Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Nicholas Hunt <nhunt@cs.washington.edu>
Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
Przemyslaw Szczepaniak <Przemyslaw.Szczepaniak@imgtec.com>
Scott Walls <sawalls@umich.edu>
TAN Yee Fan <tanyeefa@comp.nus.edu.sg>
Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Yitzchak Gale <gale@sefer.org>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
eventfd.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document EFD_SEMAPHORE
Document the EFD_SEMAPHORE flag, added in kernel 2.6.30.
Also restructured some parts of the text to fit with the
addition of the EFD_SEMAPHORE text.
Global changes
--------------
getaddrinfo.3
getipnodebyname.3
st.4
Michael Kerrisk
s/logical OR/bitwise OR/
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clock_nanosleep.2
Michael Kerrisk
Fix discussion of return value when interrupted by a signal
epoll_ctl.2
Yuri Kozlov
Small fix to types in data structures
eventfd.2
Alexander Shishkin
Clarified close-on-exec behavior
madvise.2
Michael Kerrisk
Improve discussion of MADV_SOFT_OFFLINE
mkdir.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add EMLINK error to ERRORS
mq_getsetattr.2
mq_close.3
mq_getattr.3
mq_notify.3
mq_send.3
mq_unlink.3
Lnac Huard
Fix return type in SYNOPSIS (s/mqd_t/int/)
recv.2
send.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove obsolete reference to glibc version in NOTES
recv.2
send.2
Nicholas Hunt
Adjust type shown for msg_controllen to glibc reality
This patch fixes the type of msg_controllen in the struct msghdr
definition given in send.2 and recv.2 to match the definition in
glibc and the kernel.
select.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update NOTES on old glibc pselect()
Make it clear that modern glibc uses the kernel pselect()
on systems where it is available.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14411
statfs.2
Guillem Jover
Fix copy & paste error for __SWORD_TYPE definition
sysfs.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that this syscall is obsolete.
And strengthen recommendation to use /proc/filesystems instead.
write.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add EDESTADDRREQ error
a64l.3
Peng Haitao
Fix error in NOTES, s/a64l/l64a/
error.3
Linus Nilsson
Change "perror" to "strerror" in DESCRIPTION of error()
mq_send.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix EAGAIN description (s/empty/full)
initrd.4
Yuri Kozlov
Fix IP address in explanation of NFS example
tzfile.5
Michael Kerrisk
Add information on version 2 format timezone files
Updated using information from the tzcode 2010l release at
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub.
(It's an open question whether or not a version of tzfile.5
should live independently in man-pages. It was added to the
man-pages set many years ago. For now, I'll follow a
conservative course that causes least pain to downstream,
by continuing to maintain a separate copy in man-pages.)
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594219
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.27 ====================
Released: 2010-09-22, Nuernberg
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
caishuxian@gmail.com
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Denis Silakov <silakov@ispras.ru>
der Mouse <mouse@rodents-montreal.org>
Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Jim Belton <jim.belton@gmail.com>
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Ozgur Gurcan <ozgur.gurcan@lpp.polytechnique.fr>
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Remi Denis-Courmont <remi@remlab.net>
Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org>
Tim Stoakes <tim@stoakes.net>
W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
sigevent.7
Petr Baudis, Michael Kerrisk
New page to centralize description of sigevent structure
Several interfaces use this structure. Best to centralize the
common details in one place. Content taken from the existing
timerfd_create.2 and mq_open.3 pages, with additions by
Petr Baudis and Michael Kerrisk.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
ip.7
Jiri Olsa
Document IP_NODEFRAG
This option is new in Linux 2.6.36
unix.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document SIOCINQ ioctl() operation
Global changes
--------------
_exit.2
brk.2
chdir.2
chmod.2
chown.2
chroot.2
clock_nanosleep.2
getdtablesize.2
gethostname.2
getpagesize.2
getsid.2
killpg.2
mknod.2
mknodat.2
posix_fadvise.2
pread.2
readlink.2
setpgid.2
setreuid.2
sigaltstack.2
stat.2
symlink.2
sync.2
truncate.2
vfork.2
wait.2
wait4.2
a64l.3
abs.3
acos.3
acosh.3
asin.3
asinh.3
atan.3
atan2.3
atanh.3
atoi.3
cbrt.3
ceil.3
clock_getcpuclockid.3
copysign.3
cos.3
cosh.3
dirfd.3
div.3
dprintf.3
ecvt.3
erf.3
erfc.3
exp.3
exp2.3
expm1.3
fabs.3
fdim.3
fexecve.3
ffs.3
floor.3
fma.3
fmax.3
fmemopen.3
fmin.3
fmod.3
fpclassify.3
frexp.3
fwide.3
gamma.3
gcvt.3
getcwd.3
getdate.3
getgrent.3
gethostid.3
getpass.3
getpwent.3
getsubopt.3
getw.3
hypot.3
ilogb.3
insque.3
isalpha.3
isgreater.3
iswblank.3
j0.3
j0.3
ldexp.3
lockf.3
log.3
log10.3
log1p.3
log2.3
logb.3
lrint.3
lround.3
mbsnrtowcs.3
mkdtemp.3
mkstemp.3
mktemp.3
modf.3
mq_receive.3
mq_send.3
nan.3
nextafter.3
posix_fallocate.3
posix_memalign.3
pow.3
printf.3
qecvt.3
random.3
realpath.3
remainder.3
remquo.3
rint.3
rint.3
round.3
scalb.3
scalbln.3
scanf.3
siginterrupt.3
signbit.3
sigset.3
sin.3
sinh.3
sqrt.3
stpcpy.3
stpncpy.3
strdup.3
strdup.3
strnlen.3
strsignal.3
strtod.3
strtol.3
strtoul.3
tan.3
tanh.3
tgamma.3
trunc.3
ttyslot.3
ualarm.3
usleep.3
wcpcpy.3
wcpncpy.3
wcscasecmp.3
wcsdup.3
wcsncasecmp.3
wcsnlen.3
wcsnrtombs.3
wprintf.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add/fix/update feature test macro requirements in SYNOPSIS
Various changes to:
* Update feature test requirements to note changes in
recent glibc releases
* Correct errors in feature test macro requirements
* Add feature test macro requirements to pages where
the requirements were not previously stated.
accept.2
clone.2
dup.2
fallocate.2
pipe.2
readahead.2
sched_setaffinity.2
unshare.2
CPU_SET.3
endian.3
euidaccess.3
fexecve.3
getpt.3
getpw.3
getumask.3
getutmp.3
gnu_get_libc_version.3
makedev.3
matherr.3
mbsnrtowcs.3
memfrob.3
pthread_attr_setaffinity_np.3
pthread_getattr_np.3
pthread_setaffinity_np.3
pthread_tryjoin_np.3
tcgetsid.3
wcscasecmp.3
wcsncasecmp.3
wcsnlen.3
wcsnrtombs.3
wcswidth.3
rtld-audit.7
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Add reference to feature_test_macros(7)
These pages specify feature test macros in the function
prototypes. Add a reference to feature_test_macros(7),
so that readers are pointed to the information that
feature test macros must be defined before including
*any* header file.
clock_nanosleep.2
clock_getcpuclockid.3
getnetent_r.3
getprotoent_r.3
getrpcent_r.3
getservent_r.3
sigwait.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: Note that "positive error numbers" are listed in ERRORS
fcntl.2
intro.2
open.2
poll.2
ftw.3
intro.3
matherr.3
system.3
tmpnam.3
unix.7
Michael Kerrisk
Note that feature test macros must be defined before *any* includes
Programmers often make the mistake of including a feature test
macro only after having already included some header files.
This patch adds some text at opportune places to remind
programmers to do things the right way.
index.3
stpcpy.3
strcasecmp.3
strcat.3
strchr.3
strcmp.3
strcoll.3
strcpy.3
strdup.3
strfry.3
strpbrk.3
strsep.3
strspn.3
strstr.3
strtok.3
strxfrm.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add reference to string(3)
The idea here is to provide a route to discover other
string functions.
armscii-8.7
cp1251.7
iso_8859-3.7
iso_8859-5.7
iso_8859-6.7
iso_8859-8.7
iso_8859-10.7
iso_8859-11.7
iso_8859-13.7
iso_8859-14.7
koi8-u.7
Denis Barbier
Fix decimal values in encoding tables
Octal and hexadecimal values are right, but there are some
off-by one errors in decimal values. Correct values are
printed by this command:
perl -pi -e 'if (s/^([0-7]+)\t([0-9]+)\t([0-9a-fA-F]+)//)
{printf "%03o\t%d\t%s", hex($3), hex($3), $3;};' man7/*.7
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
capget.2
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Remove unneeded "undef _POSIX_SOURCE"
fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add feature test macro requirements for F_GETOWN and F_SETOWN
fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note feature test macro requirements for F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document units for RLIMIT_RTTIME limit
This limit is in microseconds
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=596492
lseek.2
Michael Kerrisk
Removed note about return type on ancient systems
mount.2
Michael Kerrisk
Definitions of various MS_* constants only appeared in glibc 2.12
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11235
stat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update information on nanosecond timestamp fields
Update feature test macro requirements for exposing these fields.
Note that these fields are specified in POSIX.1-2008.
timer_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Factor out generic material that was moved to new sigevent(7) page
aio_fsync.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add reference to new sigevent(7) page
atanh.3
Michael Kerrisk
glibc 2.10 fixed pole error bug
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6759
was resolved.
cerf.3
Michael Kerrisk
Make it clearer that this function is unimplemented
cos.3
Michael Kerrisk
errno is now correctly set to EDOM on a domain error
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6780
was (silently) resolved.
expm1.3
Michael Kerrisk
errno is now correctly set to ERANGE on a range error
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6788
was (silently) resolved.
fmod.3
Michael Kerrisk
errno is now correctly set to EDOM for the x==inf domain error
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6784
was (silently) resolved.
insque.3
Michael Kerrisk
Noted prev == NULL bug in glibc 2.4 and earlier
As noted by Remi Denis-Courmont, glibc nowadays allows
'prev' to be NULL, as required by POSIX for initializing
a linear list. But in glibc 2.4 and earlier, 'prev' could
not be NULL. Add a BUGS section noting this.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551201
Michael Kerrisk
Added info on circular lists, and initializing circular lists
Michael Kerrisk
Added example program
lgamma.3
Michael Kerrisk
glibc 2.10 fixed pole error bug
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6777
was (silently) resolved.
log2.3
Matthew Flaschen
log2() function does not conform to C89
log2(), log2f(), and log2l() do not conform to C89.
They are defined in C99. See http://flash-gordon.me.uk/ansi.c.txt
and http://www.schweikhardt.net/identifiers.html
mq_notify.3
Michael Kerrisk
Factor out generic material that was moved to new sigevent(7) page
pow.3
Michael Kerrisk
errno is now correctly set to ERANGE on a pole error
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6776
was (silently) resolved.
pthread_kill_other_threads_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: Note meaning of "_np" suffix
rand.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify description of range of returned value
Michael Kerrisk
Add an example program
Michael Kerrisk
Expand description of rand_r()
random.3
W. Trevor King
Update initstate() return value description to match glibc
readdir.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that "positive error numbers" are listed in ERRORS
Reported-by fkater@googlemail.com
rexec.3
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Add header file and feature test macro requirements
sigpause.3
Michael Kerrisk
Correct discussion of when BSD vs SysV version is used in glibc
sin.3
Michael Kerrisk
errno is now correctly set to EDOM on a domain error
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6781
was (silently) resolved.
tan.3
Michael Kerrisk
errno is now correctly set to EDOM on a domain error
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6782
was (silently) resolved.
wcscasecmp.3
wcsncasecmp.3
wcsnlen.3
Michael Kerrisk
Added VERSIONS section
boot.7
Yuri Kozlov
Update list of major Linux distributions
feature_test_macros.7
Michael Kerrisk
Make text on required placement of macros more prominent
Move the text that notes the requirement that feature test macros
must be defined before including any header files to the top of
the page, and highlight the text further, so that the reader will
not miss this point.
pthreads.7
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add SEE ALSO reference to new sigevent(7) page
tcp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify header file details for SIOCINQ and SIOCOUTQ
Also note synonymous FIONREAD and TIOCOUTQ.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.28 ====================
Released: 2010-10-04, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Landijk <landijk-user@yahoo.com>
Lennart Poettering <mzjro@0pointer.net>
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
getaddrinfo_a.3
Petr Baudis
New page documenting getaddrinfo_a()
The page also documents gai_suspend(), gai_cancel(),
and gai_error().
aio.7
Michael Kerrisk
New page providing an overview of POSIX asynchronous I/O
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
exec.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document execvpe()
This function was added to glibc in version 2.11.
Also various other small rewrites in the page.
New and changed links
---------------------
gai_cancel.3
gai_error.3
gai_suspend.3
Petr Baudis
New links to new getaddrinfo_a.3 page
error_one_per_line.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix misnamed link file (was error_on_per_line.3)
execvpe.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to exec.3
sigstack.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to sigaltstack.2
No new programs should use sigstack(3). Point the user to the
better sigalstack(2), whose man page briefly mentions sigstack(3).
vlimit.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to getrlimit.2
No new programs should use vlimit(3). Point the user to the
better setrlimit(2), whose man page briefly mentions vlimit(3).
vtimes.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to getrusage.2
No new programs should use vtimes(3). Point the user to the
better getrusage(2), whose man page briefly mentions vtimes(3).
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Switch to American usage: "-wards" ==> "-ward"
American English uses "afterward" in preference to "afterwards",
and so on
chdir.2
chmod.2
chown.2
gethostname.2
getsid.2
pread.2
setpgid.2
sigaltstack.2
stat.2
truncate.2
wait.2
dirfd.3
getsubopt.3
mkdtemp.3
mkstemp.3
siginterrupt.3
strdup.3
Michael Kerrisk
Simplify feature test macro requirements
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add mention of the ancient vlimit() function
getrusage.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add mention of the ancient vtimes() function
io_cancel.2
io_destroy.2
io_getevents.2
io_setup.2
io_submit.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add aio(7)
sched_setscheduler.2
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: note that NULL 'param' yields EINVAL
stat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note feature test macro requirements for blkcnt_t and blksize_t
timer_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Standardize on name 'sevp' for sigevent argument
truncate.2
Michael Kerrisk
Correct and simplify ftruncate() feature test macro requirements
The glibc 2.12 feature test macro requirements for ftruncate() are
buggy; see http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12037.
Corrected the requirements in the SYNOPSIS, and added a BUGS
section describing the problem in glibc 2.12.
aio_cancel.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add pointer to aio(7) for example program
Refer the reader to aio(7) for a description of the aiocb structure
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008; add VERSIONS section
aio_error.3
Michael Kerrisk
Wording improvements in RETURN VALUE
Add pointer to aio(7) for example program
Refer the reader to aio(7) for a description of the aiocb structure
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008; add VERSIONS section
aio_fsync.3
Michael Kerrisk
Refer the reader to aio(7) for a description of the aiocb structure
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008; add VERSIONS section
aio_read.3
Michael Kerrisk
Various minor rewordings and additions
Add pointer to sigevent(7) for details of notification of I/O completion
Add pointer to aio(7) for example program
Refer the reader to aio(7) for a description of the aiocb structure
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008; add VERSIONS section
aio_return.3
Michael Kerrisk
Improve description in RETURN VALUE
Add pointer to aio(7) for example program
Refer the reader to aio(7) for a description of the aiocb structure
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008; add VERSIONS section
aio_suspend.3
Michael Kerrisk
Various additions and rewordings.
Give some arguments more meaningful names.
More explicitly describe the 'nitems' argument.
Explicitly note that return is immediate if an I/O operation
has already completed.
Note that aio_error(3) should be used to scan the aiocb list
after a successful return.
Add references to other relevant pages.
Various other pieces rewritten.
Refer the reader to aio(7) for a description of the aiocb structure
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008; add VERSIONS section
aio_write.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add pointer to sigevent(7) for details of notification of I/O completion
Various minor rewordings and additions
Refer the reader to aio(7) for a description of the aiocb structure
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008; add VERSIONS section
clearenv.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix error in feature test macro requirements
dysize.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove crufty statement about old SCO bug
exec.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add feature test macro requirements for execvpe()
Rewrite description of PATH and mention _CS_PATH
Note execvp() and execlp() behavior for filename containing a slash
getaddrinfo.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add SEE ALSO reference to new getaddrinfo_a.3 page
gethostbyname.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix formatting of feature test macros
getw.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix feature test macros
malloc.3
Landijk
Remove editorializing comments on memory overcommitting
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19332
Michael Kerrisk
Various minor reorganizations and wording fix-ups
mq_notify.3
Michael Kerrisk
Standardize on name 'sevp' for sigevent argument
nl_langinfo.3
Michael Haardt
Make it clear that nl_langinfo() interacts with setlocale()
Add an example program
posix_openpt.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix feature test macro requirements
rand.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove duplicate #include in example program
strtok.3
Petr Baudis
Add reference to strtok() example in getaddrinfo(3)
inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk
Added section noting limitations and caveats of inotify
sigevent.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add SEE ALSO reference to new getaddrinfo_a.3 page
Add SEE ALSO referring to new aio(7) page
suffixes.7
Michael Kerrisk
Change explanation of ".rpm" to "RPM software package"
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.29 ====================
Released: 2010-10-19, Detroit
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
David Prevot <davidp@altern.org>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Simon Paillard <simon.paillard@resel.enst-bretagne.fr>
Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com>
Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@intra2net.com>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
subpage_prot.2
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting the PowerPC-specific subpage_prot(2)
aio_init.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting aio_init(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
posix_fadvise.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document the architecture-specific arm_fadvise64_64() system call
This ARM-specific system call fixes the argument ordering
for that architecture. Since Linux 2.6.14.
sync_file_range.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document the architecture-specific sync_file_range2() system call
As described in commit edd5cd4a9424f22b0fa08bef5e299d41befd5622,
the sync_file_range() argument order is broken for some
architectures (PowerPC, ARM, tile). The remedy was a different
system call using the right argument order on those architectures.
psignal.3
Guillem Jover
Document psiginfo()
psiginfo() was added to glibc in version 2.10.
Michael Kerrisk
Add details, VERSIONS, and BUGS for psiginfo()
ip.7
Balazs Scheidler
Document IP_RECVORIGDSTADDR
Document IP_TRANSPARENT
Michael Kerrisk
Document IP_FREEBIND
Text based on input from Lennart Poettering and Balazs Scheidler.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20082
New and changed links
---------------------
arm_fadvise64_64.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to posix_fadvise.2
arm_sync_file_range.2, sync_file_range2.2
Michael Kerrisk
New links to sync_file_range.2
arrm_fadvise.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to posix_fadvise.2
psiginfo.3
Guillem Jover
New link to psignal.3
Global changes
--------------
Many pages
Michael Kerrisk
global fix: s/Unix/UNIX/
The man pages were rather inconsistent in the use of "Unix"
versus "UNIX". Let's go with the trademark usage.
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/pseudo-terminal/pseudoterminal/
grantpt.3, ptsname.3, unlockpt.3, pts.4
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/pty/pseudoterminal/
recv.2, cmsg.3, unix.7
Michael Kerrisk
global fix: s/UNIX socket/UNIX domain socket/
fmtmsg.3, gethostbyname.3, termios.3
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/Unixware/UnixWare/
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
inotify_rm_watch.2
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: fix type of 'wd' argument
posix_fadvise.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite VERSIONS, noting that the system call is fadvise64()
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add the PowerPC-specific subpage_prot() system call
Add sync_file_range2()
truncate.2
Michael Kerrisk
Fix feature test macros
aio_cancel.3
aio_error.3
aio_fsync.3
aio_read.3
aio_return.3
aio_suspend.3
aio_write.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add lio_listio(3)
gai_cancel.3
gai_error.3
gai_suspend.3
Michael Kerrisk
Make these into links
In the previous release, these files were accidentally made copies
of getaddrinfo_a.3, instead of being made as link files.
getifaddrs.3
Thomas Jarosch
Prevent possible NULL pointer access in example program
malloc.3
Michael Kerrisk
Emphasize that malloc() and realloc() do not initialize allocated memory
malloc_hook.3
Ivana Varekova
Warn that these functions are deprecated
strcpy.3
Michael Kerrisk
Formatting fixes in strncpy() example implementation code
ip.7
Michael Kerrisk
Reword NOTES on Linux-specific options
sigevent.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add aio_read(3), aio_write(3), and lio_listio(3)
unix.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document the autobind feature
Michael Kerrisk
Fix description of abstract socket names
As reported by Lennart Poettering:
The part about "abstract" sockets is misleading as it suggests
that the sockaddr returned by getsockname() would necessarily
have the size of sizeof(struct sockaddr), which however is not
the case: getsockname() returns exactly the sockaddr size that
was passed in on bind(). In particular, two sockets that are
bound to the same sockaddr but different sizes are completely
independent.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19812
Michael Kerrisk
Fix description of "pathname" sockets
As reported by Lennart Poettering:
The part about "pathname" sockets suggests usage of
sizeof(sa_family_t) + strlen(sun_path) + 1
for calculating the sockaddr size. Due to alignment/padding
this is probably not a good idea. Instead, one should use
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
-----------------------
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.
lio_listio.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting lio_listio(3)
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 descriptive clause.)
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Place entries in correct order
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: 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).
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.31 ====================
Released: 2010-11-12, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
David Prevot <davidp@altern.org>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Krzysztof Żelechowski <giecrilj@stegny.2a.pl>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Added documentation of prlimit()
prlimit() is new in kernel 2.6.36.
inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document IN_EXCL_UNLINK
This flag was added in Linux 2.6.36.
See kernel commit 8c1934c8d70b22ca8333b216aec6c7d09fdbd6a6.
New and changed links
---------------------
prlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to getrlimit.2
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove unneeded text in DESCRIPTION
intro.2
Michael Kerrisk
Added various pages to SEE ALSO
kexec_load.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel version where KEXEC_PRESERVE_CONTEXT first appeared
Added kernel version number where KEXEC_ON_CRASH first appeared
Fix copyright
Make copyright in the name of Intel corporation
VERSIONS: Fix version number
kexec_load() was first implemented in 2.6.13, though the entry
in the system call table was reserved starting in 2.6.7.
migrate_pages.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add reference to Documentation/vm/page_migration
sched_setaffinity.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add missing word "real" to "user ID"
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Fix kernel version number for kexec_load
kexec_load() was first implemented in 2.6.13, though the entry
in the system call table was reserved starting in 2.6.7.
Michael Kerrisk
Add prlimit() to list
intro.3
Michael Kerrisk
Added various pages to SEE ALSO
printf.3
Michael Kerrisk
Formatting fixes in example code
hostname.7
Michael Kerrisk
Small improvement to description of domains
See: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651900
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.32 ====================
Released: 2010-12-03, Munich
Contributors
------------
The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have
been incorporated in changes in this release:
A. Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Emil Mikulic <emikulic@gmail.com>
Eugene Kapun <abacabadabacaba@gmail.com>
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Ivana Hutarova Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Joern Heissler <kernelbugs@joern.heissler.de>
Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
Martin Eberhard Schauer <Martin.E.Schauer@gmx.de>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@suse.cz>
Roger Pate <roger@qxxy.com>
Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
pthread_sigqueue.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting ptrhead_sigqueue()
pthread_sigqueue() is new in glibc 2.11 (requires a kernel with
rt_tgsigqueinfo(), added in Linux 2.6.31).
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
readv.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add documentation of preadv() and pwritev()
The preadv() and pwritev() system calls were added in
Linux 2.6.30.
New and changed links
---------------------
preadv.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to readv.2
pwritev.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to readv.2
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
chdir.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove redundant and incorrect info on FTMs from NOTES
chown.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4
clock_nanosleep.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that clock_nanosleep() suspends the calling *thread*
epoll_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that 'size' argument must be greater than 0
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23872
Michael Kerrisk
Added VERSIONS section
epoll_ctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Added VERSIONS section
epoll_wait.2
Michael Kerrisk
Updated VERSIONS section
fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add notes on fcntl64()
fstatat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES on fstatat64(), the name of the underlying system call
getdents.2
Michael Kerrisk
Added notes on getdents64()
getgid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4
getgroups.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4
getpagesize.2
Michael Kerrisk
Improve description of getpagesize()
Improve description of getpagesize() and relocate discussion
of sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE).
In part inspired by
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=537272
getresuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add example program for prlimit()
getuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4
open.2
Ivana Hutarova Varekova
O_EXCL can be used without O_CREAT for block devices
Since Linux 2.6 there is a possibility to use O_EXCL without
O_CREAT. See patch: http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/8/10/221.
pread.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add notes on pread64() and pwrite64()
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23072
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add readv(3)
readv.2
Michael Kerrisk
Wording fix: readv() and writev() are system calls, not functions
sendfile.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add notes on sendfile64()
setfsgid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4
setfsuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4
setgid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4
setresuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4
setreuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4
setuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add NOTES explaining 32-bit system calls added in Linux 2.4
sigqueue.2
pthreads.7
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add pthread_sigqueue(3)
stat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Fix EOVERFLOW error description
2<<31 should read 1<<31 (which equals 2^31).
statfs.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add notes on statfs64() and fstatfs64()
swapon.2
Hugh Dickins
Document SWAP_FLAG_DISCARD and discarding of swap pages
truncate.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add notes on truncate64() and ftruncate64()
memcpy.3
Michael Kerrisk
Change "should not overlap" to "must not overlap"
glibc 2.12 changed things so that applications that use memcpy() on
overlapping regions will encounter problems. (The standards have
long said that the behavious is undefined if the memory areas
overlap.)
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=603144
In reference of http://lwn.net/Articles/414467/
and http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/15278
usleep.3
Petr Uzel
usleep() suspends calling thread, not process
core.5
Michael Kerrisk
Change single quote to double quote in shell session example
The example section has a sample shell session containing:
echo '|$PWD/core_pattern_pipe_test %p UID=%u GID=%g sig=%s'
But $PWD won't be expanded in single quotes. It should be double
quotes around the entire argument or some other form.
pthreads.7
Michael Kerrisk
Added description of async-cancel-safe functions
unix.7
Michael Kerrisk
Reworded the text of various errors
Michael Kerrisk
Added ENOENT error
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.33 ====================
Released: 2011-09-16, 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:
Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>
Alexander Schuch <Alex.Schuch@gmx.de>
Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Folkert van Heusden <folkert.mobiel@gmail.com>
Graham Gower <graham.gower@gmail.com>
Hendrik Jan Thomassen <hjt@atcomputing.nl>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Joey Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com>
Johannes Laire <johannes@laire.fi>
Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Konstantin Ritt <ritt.ks@gmail.com>
Luis Javier Merino <ninjalj@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Mikel Ward <mikel@mikelward.com>
Nick Black <dankamongmen@gmail.com>
Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
Petr Pisar <ppisar@redhat.com>
Przemyslaw Pawelczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it>
Regid Ichira <regid23@yahoo.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Richard B. Kreckel <kreckel@ginac.de>
Ryan Mullen <rmmullen@gmail.com>
Sebastian Geiger <sbastig@gmx.net>
Sebastian Unger <sebunger@gmx.net>
Seonghun Lim <wariua@gmail.com>
Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Simon Cross <hodgestar@gmail.com>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Stan Sieler <sieler@me.com>
Timmy Lee <scuttimmy@gmail.com>
Tolga Dalman <tolga.dalman@googlemail.com>
Tomislav Jonjic <jonjic@cs.unibo.it>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Wei Luosheng <weiluosheng001@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
sync.2
Michael Kerrisk
Added new syncfs() system call
syncfs() was added in Linux 2.6.39.
New and changed links
---------------------
syncfs.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link for sync(2).
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Simon Paillard
Global fix: properly escape minus sign
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that CLONE_STOPPED was removed in 2.6.38
execve.2
Michael Kerrisk [Sebastian Geiger]
Note that the first argv[] value should contain name of executable
fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk [Reuben Thomas]
Note that F_GETFL also retrieves file access mode
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk [Ryan Mullen]
Remove mention of kernel versions in discussion of RLIMIT_CPU
Michael Kerrisk [Seonghun Lim]
Fix example program and add _FILE_OFFSET_BITS requirement
mlock.2
Michael Kerrisk [Brian M. Carlson]
Clarify EINVAL error
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?625747
Michael Kerrisk [Seonghun Lim]
Simplify and correct text for EPERM error
mprotect.2
Seonghun Lim
Fix off-by-one error in a memory range
Seonghun Lim
Fix small bug in example program
The description of the example program says that it makes the
third page "read-only". Thus use PROT_READ instead of PROT_NONE.
open.2
Folkert van Heusden
Remove text describing O_CLOEXEC as Linux-specific
O_CLOEXEC is specified in POSIX.1-2008, as noted
elsewhere in the page.
readlink.2
Michael Kerrisk [Dan Jacobson]
SEE ALSO: Add readlink(1)
sendfile.2
Akira Fujita
Since 2.6.33, 'out_fd' can refer to any file type
Linux kernel commit cc56f7de7f00d188c7c4da1e9861581853b9e92f
meant sendfile(2) can work with any output file.
Michael Kerrisk
Shift text on falling back to read()/write() to NOTES
Michael Kerrisk [Tolga Dalman]
Remove mention of kernel version for 'in_fd' argument
Tolga Dalman
Add an explicit reference to splice(2)
Unlike sendfile(), splice() can transfer data
between a pair of sockets.
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk [Tolga Dalman]
Add a little info about ucontext_t
stat.2
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Small rewording of ENAMETOOLONG error
sync.2
Michael Kerrisk
Some rewrites to description of sync()
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Added fanotify_init() and fanotify_mark() to syscall list
Michael Kerrisk
Added new 2.6.39 system calls
Michael Kerrisk
Updated for Linux 3.0 system calls
Michael Kerrisk
Update kernel version at head of syscall list
Michael Kerrisk
Update to mention 3.x kernel series
syslog.2
Michael Kerrisk [Serge E. Hallyn]
Update for kernel 2.6.37 changes
Document /proc/sys/kernel/dmesg_restrict.
Document CAP_SYSLOG.
time.2
Michael Kerrisk [Alexander Schuch]
NOTES: Fix description of "Seconds since the Epoch"
timerfd_create.2
Michael Kerrisk [Josh Triplett]
Note behavior when timerdfd_settime() old_value is NULL
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?641513
Tomislav Jonjic
Fix small error in description of timerfd_settime()
truncate.2
Seonghun Lim
Remove redundant EINTR description
unlink.2
Hendrik Jan Thomassen
Improve EBUSY description
cacos.3
cacosh.3
catan.3
catanh.3
Michael Kerrisk [Richard B. Kreckel, Andries Brouwer]
Fix formula describing function
The man pages for cacos(), cacosh(), catan(), catanh()
contain incorrect formulae describing the functions.
cacos.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add example program
cacosh.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add example program
cacosh.3
casinh.3
catan.3
catanh.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add reference to inverse function
catan.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add example program
catanh.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add example program
ccos.3
ccosh.3
csin.3
csinh.3
ctan.3
ctanh.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO Add reference to "arc" inverse function
cexp.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add cexp(3)
clog.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add reference to clog(2)
crypt.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jan Engelhardt]
Fix header file and feature test macro requirements for crypt_r()
err.3
Seonghun Lim
Clean up description of error message source
In the second paragraph of DESCRIPTION section, one of the
sources of error messages is incorrect: the four functions obtain
error message only from errno, and "a code" is just relevant
with errc() and warnc(), which are not present on Linux.
see http://www.unix.com/man-page/freebsd/3/ERR/ .
Then, the third paragraph becomes a duplicate.
fflush.3
Regid Ichira
Fix wording error
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?614021
hsearch.3
Seonghun Lim
Update ERRORS section
EINVAL can occur for hdestroy_r().
EINVAL can't occur for hcreate().
Other minor fixes.
lockf.3
Michael Kerrisk [Mikel Ward]
ERRORS: EBADF can also occur for nonwritable file descriptor
As noted in the DESCRIPTION, the file descriptor must be writable
in order to place a lock.
malloc.3
Seonghun Lim
Reorder prototypes in SYNOPSIS
calloc() comes before realloc() in the other sections,
so should do in SYNOPSIS, too.
mbstowcs.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add reference to wcstombs(3)
memcmp.3
Michael Kerrisk [Sebastian Unger]
Clarify that comparison interprets bytes as "unsigned char"
realpath.3
Michael Kerrisk [Seonghun Lim]
Fix EINVAL error
Since glibc 2.3, resolved_path can be non-NULL (with the
semantics already documented in the page).
scandir(3)
Mike Frysinger
Add ENOENT/ENOTDIR errors
siginterrupt.3
Michael Kerrisk [Luis Javier Merino]
Remove misleading sentence about signal(2) and system call interruption
strlen.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
SEE ALSO: Add strnlen(3)
strnlen.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
CONFORMING TO: Note that strnlen() is in POSIX.1-2008
strtoul.3
Michael Kerrisk [Tolga Dalman]
Fix NOTES section constants
termios.3
Michael Kerrisk
Use "terminal special characters" consistently throughout page
Michael Kerrisk [Paul Evans]
Add documentation of _POSIX_VDISABLE
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627841
Michael Kerrisk
Add a description of STATUS character
Michael Kerrisk
Added description of SWTCH character
Michael Kerrisk
Add names of terminal special characters
Michael Kerrisk
List terminal special characters in alphabetical order
wcstombs.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add mbstowcs(3)
console_codes.4
Petr Pisar
Add ESC [ 3 J
Linux 3.0 (commit f8df13e0a901fe55631fed66562369b4dba40f8b)
implements \E[3J to allow scrambling content of console
including scroll-back buffer
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1125792).
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk [Stan Sieler]
Add description of 'PPid' field of /proc/PID/status
Michael Kerrisk [Stan Sieler]
Add description of 'SigQ' field of /proc/PID/status
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk [Serge E. Hallyn]
Document CAP_SYSLOG and related changes in Linux 2.6.37
Michael Kerrisk
File capabilities are no longer optional
Starting with Linux 2.6.33, the CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
has been removed, and file capabilities are always part of the
kernel.
complex.7
Michael Kerrisk
Updated SEE ALSO list to include all complex math functions
ipv6.7
Michael Kerrisk [Simon Cross]
Fix description of address notation: "8 4-digit hexadecimal numbers"
signal.7
Seonghun Lim
Remove crufty repeated info about LinuxThreads
unix.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add pointer to cmsg(3) for an example of the use of SCM_RIGHTS
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.34 ====================
Released: 2011-09-23, 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 <pacman@kosh.dhis.org>
Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com>
Stephen Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
rt_sigqueueinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk [Stephan Mueller]
New page for rt_sigqueueinfo(2) and rt_tgsigqueueinfo(2)
This replaces the previous '.so' man page link file for
rt_sigqueueinfo.2, which linked to this sigqueue() man page.
cciss.4
Stephen M. Cameron
New man page for cciss driver
I obtained the information in this man page as a consequence
of having worked on the cciss driver for the past several years,
and having written considerable portions of it.
Michael Kerrisk
Copyedit by mtk
hpsa.4
Stephen M. Cameron
New man page for the hpsa driver
I obtained the information in this man page as a consequence
of being the main author of the hpsa driver.
Michael Kerrisk
Copyedits my mtk
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
fstatat.2
Michael Kerrisk [David Howells]
Document AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT
This flag was added in Linux 2.6.38.
lseek.2
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake, Sunil Mushran]
Document SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA
These flags, designed for discovering holes in a file,
were added in Linux 3.1. Included comments from Eric
Blake and Sunil Mushran.
madvise.2
Doug Goldstein
Add MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE
Document the MADV_HUGEPAGE and MADV_NOHUGEPAGE flags added to
madvise() in Linux 2.6.38.
New and changed links
---------------------
rt_tgsigqueueinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new rt_sigqueueinfo.2 page
sigqueue.2
Michael Kerrisk
Create link to page that was relocated to section 3
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Change reference to "sigqueue(2)" to "sigqueue(3)"
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: Add EPERM and ESPIPE errors
lseek.2
Michael Kerrisk [Alan Curry, Reuben Thomas]
Remove suspect note about 'whence' being incorrect English
prctl.2
Paul Pluzhnikov
PR_SET_DUMPABLE makes process non-ptrace-attachable
readlink.2
Guillem Jover
Document using st_size to allocate the buffer
Michael Kerrisk
Added copyright text + changelog note for Guillem Jover's patch
sched_setscheduler.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document 2.6.39 changes to rules governing changes from SCHED_IDLE policy
Since Linux 2.6.39, unprivileged processes under the
SCHED_IDLE policy can switch to another nonrealtime
policy if their nice value falls within the range
permitted by their RLIMIT_NICE limit.
tkill.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add rt_sigqueueinfo (2)
btowc.3, wctob.3
Michael Kerrisk [Brian M. Carlson]
Add pointers to better, thread-safe alternative functions
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=606899
fwide.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add _ISOC95_SOURCE to feature test macro requirements
Since glibc 2.12, _ISOC95_SOURCE can also be used to expose
prototype of this function.
index.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Fix text mentioning terminating null
pthread_sigqueue.3
Michael Kerrisk
Replace explicit mention of rt_tgsigqueueinfo() with SEE ALSO reference
sigqueue.3
Michael Kerrisk
Move this page to section 3
Now that the underlying system call rt_sigqueueinfo(2) is
properly documented, move sigqueue() to Section 3, since
it is really a library function.
Michael Kerrisk
Update text in line with existence of new rt_sigqueueinfo.2 page
wcsnlen.3
Jon Grant
Improve description of 'maxlen' argument
It's worth clarifying 'maxlen' is in wide-char units, not bytes.
wprintf.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add _ISOC95_SOURCE to feature test macro requirements
Since glibc 2.12, _ISOC95_SOURCE can also be used to expose
prototype of these functions.
feature_test_macros.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document _ISOC95_SOURCE
_ISOC95_SOURCE was added in glibc 2.12 as a means
to expose C90 Amendment 1 definitions.
ip.7
Benjamin Poirier [Neil Horman]
Improve description of IP_MTU_DISCOVER
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add rt_sigqueueinfo(2)
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.35 ====================
Released: 2011-10-04, 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:
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Kevin Lyda <kevin@ie.suberic.net>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
recvmmsg.2
Andi Kleen, Michael Kerrisk
New man page for recvmmsg(2)
setns.2
Eric W. Biederman
New manual page for setns(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Various improvements
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: remove spaces around em-dash
Normal English typographical convention is not to have
spaces around em dashes.
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/null pointer/NULL pointer/
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: use ORing
Use "ORing", not "OR'ing", nor an italic ".IR OR ing".
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: consistent use of "null wide character"
Bring more consistency to the discussion of
"[terminating] null wide character"
by writing (at least in the initial use in a page)
"[terminating] null wide character (L'\0')".
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: consistent use of "null byte"
Bring more consistency to the discussion of
"[terminating] null byte"
by writing (at least in the initial use in a page)
"[terminating] null byte ('\0')".
mount.2, prctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
s/task/thread/ for consistency with other pages
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
lseek.2
Guillem Jover
CONFORMING TO: Note other systems that have SEEK_HOLE+SEEK_DATA
recv.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add mention of recvmmsg(2)
recvmmsg.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add sendmmsg(2)
send.2
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: POSIX.1-2008 adds MSG_NOSIGNAL
sigwaitinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that attempts to wait for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP are silently ignored
stat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008 requirements for lstat()
Michael Kerrisk
Regarding automounter action, add a reference to fstatat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Clean up text describing which POSIX describes S_IF* constants
aio_cancel.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Clarify meaning of "return status" and "error status"
gets.3
Michael Kerrisk
POSIX.1-2008 marks gets() obsolescent
The page formerly erroneously stated that POSIX.1-2008
removed the specification of this function.
mbsnrtowcs.3
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008
This function is specified in the POSIX.1-2008 revision.
regex.3
Michael Kerrisk [Reuben Thomas]
Change "terminating null" to "terminating null byte"
stpcpy.3
stpncpy.3
Mike Frysinger
Note that these functions are in POSIX.1-2008
Update the "CONFORMING TO" sections of these functions to
note that they are now part of the POSIX.1-2008 standard.
stpncpy.3
Michael Kerrisk
Change "terminating null" to "terminating null byte"
strcpy.3
Mike Frysinger
SEE ALSO: Add stpncpy(3)
strdup.3
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: strndup() is in POSIX.1-2008
wcpcpy.3
wcpncpy.3
wcsnlen.3
wcsnrtombs.3
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: Add POSIX.1-2008
These functions are specified in the POSIX.1-2008 revision.
proc.5
Eric W. Biederman
Document /proc/[pid]/ns/
Michael Kerrisk
Some edit's to Eric Biederman's /proc/[pid]/ns/ additions
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
List setns(2) as an operation allowed by CAP_SYS_ADMIN
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.36 ====================
Released: 2012-02-27, Christchurch
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:
Alain Benedetti <alainb06@free.fr>
carado <carado@savhon.org>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Jessica McKellar <jesstess@mit.edu>
Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
Junjiro Okajima <jro@mx3.ttcn.ne.jp>
Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Pat Pannuto <pat.pannuto@gmail.com>
Salvo Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>
Simone Piccardi <piccardi@truelite.it>
Slaven Rezic <srezic@iconmobile.com>
starlight@binnacle.cx
Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@atsec.com>
Vijay Rao <vijay@portuosus.com>
Walter Haidinger <walter.haidinger@gmx.at>
Walter Harms <wharms@bfs.de>
Yang Yang <wdscxsj@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
sendmmsg.2
Michael Kerrisk [Stephan Mueller]
New page for sendmmsg(2)
Some pieces inspired by an initial attempt by Stephan Mueller.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
fallocate.2
Lucian Adrian Grijincu
Document FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE
FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE was added in Linux 2.6.38,
for punching holes in the allocated space in a file.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
dup.2
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Add "#include <fcntl.h>" for O_* constants
fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk
Substantial restructuring of DESCRIPTION
The addition of a second class of operation ("hole punching")
to the man page made it clear that some significant restructuring
is required. So I substantially reworked the page, including the
preexisting material on the default "file allocation" operation.
Michael Kerrisk [Josef Bacik]
Add further details for FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: Add EPERM error case for FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE
fork.2
Michael Kerrisk
NOTES: Describe clone() call equivalent to fork()
fsync.2
Christoph Hellwig
Various improvements
- explain the situation with disk caches better
- remove the duplicate fdatasync() explanation in the NOTES
section
- remove an incorrect note about fsync() generally requiring two
writes
- remove an obsolete ext2 example note
- fsync() works on any file descriptor (doesn't need to be
writable); correct the EBADF error code explanation
Michael Kerrisk [Guillem Jover]
Note that some systems require a writable file descriptor
An edited version of Guillem Jover's comments:
[While the file descriptor does not need to be writable on Linux]
that's not a safe portable assumption to make on POSIX in general
as that behavior is not specified and as such is
implementation-specific. Some Unix systems do actually fail on
read-only file descriptors, for example [HP-UX and AIX].
mount.2
Michael Kerrisk [Junjiro Okajima]
Removed erroneous statement about MS_RDONLY and bind mounts
open.2
Jessica McKellar
Fix grammar in O_DIRECT description
Some small grammar fixes to the O_DIRECT description.
pipe.2
Michael Kerrisk [Salvo Tomaselli]
SYNOPSIS: Add "#include <fcntl.h>" for O_* constants
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659750
sched_rr_get_interval.2
Clemens Ladisch
Update notes on modifying quantum
Since Linux 2.6.24, it is no longer possible to
modify the SCHED_RR quantum using setpriority(2).
(Slight edits to Clemens' patch by mtk.)
Michael Kerrisk
Reordered various pieces of text
Michael Kerrisk
Reworded text of ESRCH error
send.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add mention of sendmmsg(2)
sync.2
Michael Kerrisk [Simone Piccardi]
PROTOTYPE: Fix return type of syncfs()
vfork.2
Michael Kerrisk [starlight@binnacle.cx]
Clarify what is duplicated in the child
Add some words to make it clear to the reader that vfork(),
like fork(), creates duplicates of process attributes
in the child.
Michael Kerrisk
Note clone() flags equivalent to vfork()
Michael Kerrisk [starlight@binnacle.cx, Mike Frysinger]
Add some notes on reasons why vfork() still exists
Michael Kerrisk [starlight@binnacle.cx]
Clarify that calling *thread* is suspended during vfork()
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: Note that POSIX.1-2001 marked vfork() obsolete
gets.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document C11 and glibc 2.16 changes affecting gets()
pthread_sigmask.3
Michael Kerrisk [Pat Pannuto]
Fix comment that was inconsistent with code in example program
sem_wait.3
Walter Harms
EXAMPLE: Remove extraneous line of output from shell session
wcsnrtombs.3
wcsrtombs.3
wcstombs.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix-ups for e9c23bc636426366d659809bc99cd84661e86464
core.5
Michael Kerrisk [Junjiro Okajima]
Document %E specifier for core_pattern
passwd.5
Michael Kerrisk [Walter Haidinger]
s/asterisk/asterisk (*)/ to improve clarity
Michael Kerrisk
Correct note on passwd field value when shadowing is enabled
When password shadowing is enabled, the password field
contains an 'x' (not "*').
proc.5
Elie De Brauwer
Fix description of fourth field of /proc/loadavg
SIgned-off-by: Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
resolv.conf.5
Michael Kerrisk [Slaven Rezic]
Describe syntax used for comments
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656994
feature_test_macros.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document _ISOC11_SOURCE
inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk [Yang Yang]
Note that 'cookie' field is set to zero when unused
man.7
Michael Kerrisk
Various fixes for description of NAME section
As noted by reporter:
* The code sample given for the NAME section is incomplete because
the actual content sample is not given.
* Additionally, the description assumes that the item described is
a command, which need not be the case.
* The command makewhatis is not present on my system; the
documented tool to create the whatis database is called mandb.
* The description on .SH NAME in man(7) should either copy the
relevant paragraph of lexgrog(1) or refer to it.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.37 ====================
Released: 2012-03-06, Christchurch
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:
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Mark R. Bannister <cambridge@users.sourceforge.net>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
getent.1
Mark R. Bannister
New page to document 'getent' binary provided by glibc
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
bdflush.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that bdflush() is deprecated, and does nothing
nfsservctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that this system call was removed in Linux 3.1
ptrace.2
Denys Vlasenko [Oleg Nesterov, Tejun Heo]
add extended description of various ptrace quirks
Changes include:
s/parent/tracer/g, s/child/tracee/g - ptrace interface now
is sufficiently cleaned up to not treat tracing process
as parent.
Deleted several outright false statements:
- pid 1 can be traced
- tracer is not shown as parent in ps output
- PTRACE_ATTACH is not "the same behavior as if tracee had done
a PTRACE_TRACEME": PTRACE_ATTACH delivers a SIGSTOP.
- SIGSTOP _can_ be injected.
- Removed mentions of SunOS and Solaris as irrelevant.
- Added a few more known bugs.
Added a large block of text in DESCRIPTION which doesn't focus
on mechanical description of each flag and operation, but rather
tries to describe a bigger picture. The targeted audience is
a person which is reasonably knowledgeable in Unix but did not
spend years working with ptrace, and thus may be unaware of its
quirks. This text went through several iterations of review by
Oleg Nesterov and Tejun Heo.
This block of text intentionally uses as little markup as possible,
otherwise future modifications to it will be very hard to make.
Michael Kerrisk
Global clean-up of page
* Wording and formatting fixes to existing text and
Denys Vlasenko's new text.
* Various technical amendments and improvements to
Denys Vlasenko's new text.
* Added FIXME for various problems with the current text.
Michael Kerrisk
Integrated changes after further review from Denys Vlasenko
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that nfsservctl(2) was removed in Linux 3.1
Note that bdflush(2) is deprecated
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add CAP_WAKE_ALARM
Michael Kerrisk
Add various operations under CAP_SYS_ADMIN
Add perf_event_open(2) to CAP_SYS_ADMIN
Add VM86_REQUEST_IRQ vm86(2) command to CAP_SYS_ADMIN
Update CAP_NET_ADMIN with notes from include/linux/capability.h
Add nfsservctl(2) to CAP_SYS_ADMIN
Michael Kerrisk
Add ioctl(FIBMAP) under CAP_SYS_RAWIO
Michael Kerrisk
Add virtual terminal ioctl()s under CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG
Michael Kerrisk
Update CAP_NET_RAW with notes from include/linux/capability.h
Michael Kerrisk
Add F_SETPIPE_SZ case to CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
Add POSIX messages queues queues_max case to CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
Update CAP_SYS_RESOURCE with notes from include/linux/capability.h
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add libcap(3)
ld.so.8
Michael Kerrisk
Add --audit command-line option
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.38 ====================
Released: 2012-03-25, Christchurch
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:
Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@gmail.com>
Artyom Pervukhin <artyom@evasive.ru>
BeÅas Petr <xbenas00@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
Ben Bacarisse <software@bsb.me.uk>
Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
David Prévot <david@tilapin.org>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Iain Fraser <iainkfraser@gmail.com>
Justin T Pryzby <justinp@norchemlab.com>
Kirill Brilliantov <brilliantov@inbox.ru>
Mark R Bannister <mark@proseconsulting.co.uk>
Matthew Gregan <kinetik@flim.org>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
Sergei Zhirikov <sfzhi@yahoo.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
get_nprocs_conf.3
BeÅas Petr
New page documenting get_nprocs_conf(3) and get_nprocs(3)
Michael Kerrisk
Some additions and improvements
malloc_get_state.3
Michael Kerrisk
New page documenting malloc_get_state(3) and malloc_set_state(3)
mallopt.3
Michael Kerrisk
New man page for mallopt(3)
mtrace.3
Michael Kerrisk
Complete rewrite of page, adding much more detail
scandirat.3
Mark R Bannister
New page for scandirat(3) (new in glibc 2.15)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
posix_memalign.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document aligned_alloc(3)
aligned_alloc() is new in C11.
Michael Kerrisk
Document pvalloc(3)
qsort.3
Mark R Bannister
Add documentation of qsort_r(3)
Ben Bacarisse
Improvements to Mark R Bannister's qsort_r() patch
Michael Kerrisk
Add VERSIONS section for qsort_r()
New and changed links
---------------------
aligned_alloc.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to posix_memalign.3
get_nprocs.3
BeÅas Petr
Link to new get_nprocs_conf.3 page
malloc_set_state.3
Michael Kerrisk
Link to new malloc_get_state.3 page
pvalloc.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to posix_memalign.3
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global formatting fix: balance .nf/.fi pairs
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: place sections in correct order
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk [Justin T Pryzby]
Global fix: Remove duplicated words
Remove instances of duplicate words found using Justin's
grep-fu:
for f in man?/*.[1-9]; do
grep -HE ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1' "$f" |
grep -Evw '(proc|hugetlbfs|XXX*|root|long) *\1';
done | grep -E --colo ' ([[:alpha:]]{2,} +)\1'
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Correct order of SEE ALSO entries
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
futimesat.2
Michael Kerrisk
PROTOTYPE: Correct header file and feature test macro requirements
keyctl.2
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Strip trailing tabs from source line
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=664688
ptrace.2
Denys Vlasenko
Document PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG for PTRACE_EVENT_EXEC
Denys Vlasenko
Various fixes to recent updates of this page
symlinkat.2
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
PROTOTYPE: Correct header file
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove unimplemented system calls from main syscall list
The unimplemented system calls are in any case noted lower down
in the page. Also: rearrange the text describing the unimplemented
system calls.
Michael Kerrisk
Note a few system calls that were removed in Linux 2.6
Michael Kerrisk
Add process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2)
unlinkat.2
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
PROTOTYPE: Correct header file
Michael Kerrisk
PROTOTYPE: Add <fcntl.h> for AT_* constants
utimensat.2
Michael Kerrisk
PROTOTYPE: Add <fcntl.h> for AT_* constants
copysign.3
Michael Kerrisk [Tolga Dalman]
DESCRIPTION: Add a couple of examples
malloc.3
Michael Kerrisk
NOTES: Add a short discussion of arenas
Michael Kerrisk
Replace discussion of MALLOC_CHECK_ with pointer to mallopt(3)
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add mtrace(3)
SEE ALSO: add malloc_get_state(3)
posix_memalign.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rename memalign() argument
Rename "boundary" to "alignment" for consistency
with posix_memalign().
Michael Kerrisk
Improve discussion of feature test macros and header files for valloc(3)
rtnetlink.3
Kirill Brilliantov [Sergei Zhirikov]
Fix example code, rta_len assignment should use RTA_LENGTH()
See also http://bugs.debian.org/655088
scandir.3
Mark R Bannister
SEE ALSO: Add scandirat(3)
sigqueue.3
Nix
Remove rt_sigqueueinfo from TH line
rt_sigqueueinfo() now has its own manual page, so should not
be listed in the .TH line of this page.
tzset.3
Peter Schiffer
Correct description for Julian 'n' date format
The Julian 'n' date format counts starting from 0, not 1.
Michael Kerrisk
Add some clarifying remarks to discussion of Julian day formats
packet.7
Michael Kerrisk [Iain Fraser]
Fix comment on 'sll_hatype' field
tcp.7
Michael Kerrisk [Artyom Pervukhin]
Correct RFC for TIME_WAIT assassination hazards
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.39 ====================
Released: 2012-04-17, Christchurch
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:
Abhijith Das <adas@redhat.com>
Alexander Kruppa <akruppa@gmail.com>
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com>
Armin Rigo <arigo@tunes.org>
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
Felix <fkater@googlemail.com>
Jak <jak@gmx.ca>
Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Jesus Otero <jesus.otero@rysg.es>
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Kevin O'Gorman <kevinogorman4@gmail.com>
Mark R Bannister <mark@proseconsulting.co.uk>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Michael Welsh Duggan <mwd@cert.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
Regid Ichira <regid23@yahoo.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez <jimenezrick@gmail.com>
Simone Piccardi <piccardi@truelite.it>
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
<who@connect.carleton.ca>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
malloc_trim.3
Michael Kerrisk
New man page for malloc_trim(3)
malloc_usable_size.3
Michael Kerrisk
New man page for malloc_usable_size(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
prctl.2
Cyrill Gorcunov
Document PR_SET_MM (new in Linux 3.3)
Michael Kerrisk
Various edits and improvements to Cyrill's patch
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
epoll_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rework discussion of 'size' argument
Michael Kerrisk
Add .SS for description of epoll_create1()
epoll_wait.2
Michael Kerrisk [Armin Rigo]
Another thread can add to epoll instance while epoll_wait is blocked
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43072
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that epoll_pwait() blocks calling *thread*
A few wording improvements
fchmodat.2
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
Note difference between glibc wrapper and underlying system call
The wrapper function has a 'flags' argument (which currently
serves no purpose), while the underlying system call does not.
fcntl.2
Abhijith Das
Explain behaviour of F_GETLEASE during lease break
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
Change type of arg from "long" to "int"
Various fcntl(2) commands require an integral 'arg'.
The man page said it must be "long" in all such cases.
However, for the cases covered by POSIX, there is an
explicit requirement that these arguments be "int".
Update the man page to reflect. Probably, all of the
other "long" cases (not specified in POSIX) should
be "int", and this patch makes them so. Based on a
note fromEric Blake, relating to F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC.
gettimeofday.2
Michael Kerrisk
Reorganize content
The main change is to move the historical information about
the 'tz_dsttime' to NOTES.
Michael Kerrisk [Felix]
Note that compiler issues warnings if 'tv' is NULL
mmap.2
Michael Kerrisk [Kevin O'Gorman]
Clarify that this system call should not be invoked directly
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42892
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify NOTES discussion of mmap() versus mmap2()
poll.2
Michael Kerrisk [Michael Welsh Duggan]
Document negative value in 'fd' field
Michael Kerrisk
Document semantics of passing zero in 'events' field
ptrace.2
Denys Vlasenko
Various fixes
For some reason, the PTRACE_TRACEME paragraph talks about some
general aspects of ptraced process behavior. It repeats the
"tracee stops on every signal" information even though that was
already explained just a few paragraphs before. Then it describes
legacy SIGTRAP on execve().
This patch deletes the first part, and moves the second part up,
into the general ptrace description. It also adds
"If PTRACE_O_TRACEEXEC option is not in effect" to the description
of the legacy SIGTRAP on execve().
The patch also amends the part which says "For requests other
than PTRACE_KILL, the tracee must be stopped." - PTRACE_ATTACH
also doesn't require that.
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk [Andreas Jaeger, ]
Clarify that the use of SI_SIGIO is for Linux 2.2 only
See also http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6745
sigprocmask.2
Mike Frysinger
ERRORS: add EFAULT
times.2
Michael Kerrisk [Simone Piccardi]
ERRORS: Add EFAULT
div.3
Michael Kerrisk [Reuben Thomas]
CONFORMING TO: Add C99
fread.3
Regid Ichira
Clarify further that return value is number of items, not bytes
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=665780
getaddrinfo.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jak]
Correct type of ai_addrlen field
malloc.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add malloc_usable_size(3)
SEE ALSO: Add malloc_trim(3)
mallopt.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix text describing M_PERTURB and free()
SEE ALSO: Add malloc_trim(3)
memchr.3
Michael Kerrisk [Reuben Thomas]
Remove mention of terminating null in description of rawmemchr()
perror.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jesus Otero]
Note that use of 'sys_errlist' is deprecated
rcmd.3
Michael Kerrisk
glibc eventually added a declaration of iruserok() in version 2.12
sysconf.3
Michael Kerrisk [Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez]
Add mention of _SC_SYMLOOP_MAX
nologin.5
Michael Kerrisk [Tetsuo Handa]
nologin must not only exist, but *be readable* to be effective
nsswitch.conf.5
Mark R Bannister
Significant rewrites and improvements
This patch applies to nsswitch.conf.5 in man-pages-3.36.
My changes almost completely rewrite large sections of the
man page. They are needed to add clarity, correct grammar,
reduce confusion, and bring up-to-date with the latest glibc.
I have checked the man page against the nss source code in
glibc 2.14.90.
Historical notes are demoted to the footer.
The rewrite makes the man page much clearer to
understand, more authoratitive, and easier to read.
Michael Kerrisk
Light edits to Mark Bannister's changes
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add prctl(PR_SET_MM) to CAP_SYS_RESOURCE
epoll.7
Michael Kerrisk
Some minor clarifications at start of DESCRIPTION
netlink.7
Jeff Mahoney [Petr Gajdos]
Note cases where nonprivileged users can use netlink multicast groups
See also https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754611
unix.7
Michael Kerrisk [Tetsuo Handa]
Add a detail on autobind feature
ld.so.8
Jonathan Nieder [Reuben Thomas]
Document effect of hwcaps on search path
Wording by Aurelien Jarno from Debian glibc's r4701 (2011-06-04).
Addresses http://bugs.debian.org/622385
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.40 ====================
Released: 2012-04-27, Christchurch
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:
Alexey Toptygin <alexeyt@freeshell.org>
Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>
Brian F. G. Bidulock <bidulock@openss7.org>
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@au1.ibm.com>
Daniel J Blueman <daniel@quora.org>
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>
James Hunt <james.hunt@ubuntu.com>
John Sullivan <jsrhbz@kanargh.force9.co.uk>
Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
lepton <ytht.net@gmail.com>
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Vadim Mikhailov <vadim.mikhailov@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
process_vm_readv.2
Mike Frysinger, Christopher Yeoh, Michael Kerrisk
New page for process_vm_readv(2) and process_vm_writev(2)
mcheck.3
Michael Kerrisk
New man page for mcheck(3) and related functions
Also describes mcheck_check_all(3), mcheck_pedantic(3),
and mprobe(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
rcmd.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document "_af" variants of these functions
Document rcmd_af(), rresvport_af(), iruserok_af(), ruserok_af().
Also some restructuring and other clarifications.
rexec.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document rexec_af()
New and changed links
---------------------
iruserok_af.3
rcmd_af.3
rresvport_af.3
ruserok_af.3
Michael Kerrisk
New links to rcmd.3
rexec_af.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to rexec.3
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clock_getres.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify difference between CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW
Note interactions of these two clocks with discontinuous
adjustments to the system time and NTP/adjtime(2).
fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk [John Sullivan]
Fix description of ENOSYS and EOPNOTSUP errors
As reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680214
fchmodat.2
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
Improve discussion of difference between wrapper and underlying syscall
gettimeofday.2
Michael Kerrisk
gettimeofday() is affected by discontinuous jumps in the system time
Advise reader to use clock_gettime(2), if they need a
monotonically increasing time source.
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add clock_gettime(2)
prctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_DISABLE and PR_TASK_PERF_EVENTS_ENABLE
Add some basic documentation of these operations, with a pointer to
tools/perf/design.txt for more information.
Michael Kerrisk [Marcel Holtmann]
Amend details of PR_SET_PDEATHSIG
ptrace.2
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
Note SPARC deviation with respect to get/set regs
SPARC reverses the use of 'addr' and 'data' for
PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS,
and PTRACE_SETFPREGS.
send.2
Stefan Puiu
Document EACCES error case for UDP
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove mention of raise(3) for SI_USER
For a long time now, glibc's raise(3) didn't yield SI_USER
for the signal receiver, so remove mention of raise(3)
here. The user can deduce the details, if needed, by looking
at the recently updated raise(3) page.
aio_cancel.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Rewrite RETURN VALUE section to be clearer
aio_init.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Remove extraneous "POSIX" from NAME section
btree.3
dbopen.3
hash.3
mpool.3
recno.3
Michael Kerrisk [Brian M. Carlson]
Note that glibc no longer provides these interfaces
glibc stopped providing these interfaces with v2.2.
Nowadays, the user that finds these pages probably wants
the libdb API, so note this in the page.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=337581
fopen.3
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: Note limitation on number of flag characters parsed in 'mode'
Michael Kerrisk
Note that 'c' and 'e' flags are ignored for fdopen()
Determined from reading libio/iofdopen.c.
Michael Kerrisk
Document ",ccs=string" feature of 'mode' for fopen()/freopen()
getgrnam.3
Michael Kerrisk [Ulrich Drepper]
Fix discussion of _SC_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX
The value is not meant to be a maximum (as was specified in
SUSv3) but an initial guess at the required size
(as specified in SUSv4).
getpwnam.3
Michael Kerrisk [Ulrich Drepper]
Fix discussion of _SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX
The value is not meant to be a maximum (as was specified in
SUSv3) but an initial guess at the required size
(as specified in SUSv4).
malloc.3
mallopt.3
mtrace.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add mcheck(3)
memchr.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify description, omitting mention of "strings" and "characters"
The existing text slipped into talking about characters and
strings, which could mislead readers into thing that, for
example, searches for the byte '\0' are treated specially.
Therefore, rewrite in terms of "bytes" and "memory areas".
At the same time, make a few source file clean-ups.
mkstemp.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add "mkstemps" and "mkostemps" to NAME line
posix_openpt.3
Michael Kerrisk [Vadim Mikhailov]
Add some details on use of the slave pathname
An explicit pointer to ptsname(3) is useful, as is a note
of the fact that the slave device pathname exists only as
long as the master device is held open.
raise.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add some notes on underlying system call that is used
rcmd.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add some details of the rresvport() 'port' argument
resolver.3
Petr Baudis
Note that many options are documented in resolv.conf(5)
scandir.3
Michael Kerrisk [Daniel J Blueman]
Improve EXAMPLE source code: s/0/NULL/ in scandir() call
strchr.3
James Hunt
Explain behavior when searching for '\0'
strerror.3
Eric Blake [Stefan Puiu]
Improve strerror_r() description
POSIX requires that perror() not modify the static storage
returned by strerror(). POSIX 2008 and C99 both require that
strerror() never return NULL (a strerror() that always
returns "" for all inputs is valid for C99, but not for POSIX).
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12204
documents glibc's change to come into compliance with POSIX
regarding strerror_r() return value. The GNU strerror_r() use
of 'buf' was confusing - I ended up writing a test program that
proves that 'buf' is unused for valid 'errnum', but contains
truncated "unknown message" for out-of-range 'errnum'.
See also http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=382
Bernhard Walle
Correct description of error return for XSI strerror_r()
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
Note how to use 'errno' to detect errors when calling strerror()
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Add an example of the kind of string returned by strerror()
resolv.conf.5
Petr Baudis
Document "single-request" option
inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk
Note buffer size that guarantees being able to read at least one event
James Hunt
Correct description of size of inotify_event structure
iso_8859-1.7
Eugen Dedu
Add "-" for SOFT HYPHEN
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=156154
netdevice.7
Brian F. G. Bidulock
Document some SIOC configuration ioctls
This patch adds common but missing SIOC configuration ioctls to
the netdevice.7 manual pages that are not documented anywhere
else. SIOCSIFPFLAGS and SIOCGIFPFLAGS are linux-specific. Flag
values come from Linux 2.6.25 kernel headers for sockios. The
others are standard BSD ioctls that have always been implemented
by Linux and were verified from inspecting netdevice.c kernel
code.
socket.7
Michael Kerrisk [Alexey Toptygin]
Correct description of SO_BROADCAST
tcp.7
lepton
Correct description for TCP_MAXSEG on modern kernel
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.41 ====================
Released: 2012-05-11, Christchurch
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:
Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@gmail.com>
Andries E. Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com >
Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.ath.cx>
Casper.Dik@oracle.com
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
D. Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Jean-Michel Vourgère <jmv_deb@nirgal.com>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Kasper Dupont <kasperd@gmail.com>
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Lauri Kasanen <curaga@operamail.com>
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk >
Rich Felker <bugdal@aerifal.cx>
Simone Piccardi <piccardi@truelite.it>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
get_robust_list.2
Ivana Varekova [Michael Kerrisk]
New page documenting get_robust_list(2) and set_robust_list(2)
mallinfo.3
Michael Kerrisk [KOSAKI Motohiro, Paul Pluzhnikov]
New page for mallinfo(3)
malloc_info.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jakub Jelinek]
New page for malloc_info(3)
malloc_stats.3
Michael Kerrisk [KOSAKI Motohiro]
New man page for malloc_stats(3)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
madvise.2
Jason Baron
Document MADV_DONTDUMP and MADV_DODUMP
New and changed links
---------------------
set_robust_list.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new get_robust_list.2 page
LIST_ENTRY.3
LIST_HEAD.3
LIST_INIT.3
LIST_INSERT_AFTER.3
LIST_INSERT_HEAD.3
LIST_REMOVE.3
TAILQ_ENTRY.3
TAILQ_HEAD.3
TAILQ_INIT.3
TAILQ_INSERT_AFTER.3
TAILQ_INSERT_HEAD.3
TAILQ_INSERT_TAIL.3
TAILQ_REMOVE.3
CIRCLEQ_ENTRY.3
CIRCLEQ_HEAD.3
CIRCLEQ_INIT.3
CIRCLEQ_INSERT_AFTER.3
CIRCLEQ_INSERT_BEFORE.3
CIRCLEQ_INSERT_HEAD.3
CIRCLEQ_INSERT_TAIL.3
CIRCLEQ_REMOVE.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to queue.3
The queue(3) page documents these macros, so it makes sense to
have links for the names.
DES_FAILED.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to des_crypt.3
The des_crypt(3) page documents this macro, so it makes sense
to have a link for the name.
qsort_r.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to qsort.3
Overlooked to add this link in 3.38, when documentation of
qsort_r() was added to the qsort.3 page.
Global changes
--------------
faccessat.2
fchmodat.2
fchownat.2
fstatat.2
futimesat.2
inotify_init.2
linkat.2
mkdirat.2
mknodat.2
openat.2
readlinkat.2
renameat.2
setns.2
splice.2
symlinkat.2
sync.2
tee.2
unlinkat.2
vmsplice.2
Michael Kerrisk [Lauri Kasanen]
Global fix: note glibc version that added library support
confstr.3
strcasecmp.3
strcat.3
strcmp.3
strcpy.3
strdup.3
strftime.3
strlen.3
strnlen.3
strpbrk.3
strspn.3
strtok.3
strxfrm.3
Michael Kerrisk [Andries E. Brouwer]
Clarify that these functions operate on bytes, not (wide) characters
Change 'character(s)' to 'byte(s)' to make clear that these
functions operate on bytes, not wide / UTF8 characters.
(POSIX uses 'byte(s)' similarly, to make this point.)
icmp.7
ipv6.7
packet.7
raw.7
rtnetlink.7
unix.7
x25.7
Michael Kerrisk
Remove names of constants from NAME line
Some of the sockets/network protocol pages included names of
the corresponding address family constants in the NAME line,
but this wasn't done consistently across all pages, and probably
it adds little value in those pages that did do this. So, remove
these constants from those pages that have them in the NAME
section.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clock_getres.2
Michael Kerrisk [Josh Triplett]
Expand description of CLOCK_REALTIME
Make it clear that this clock may be discontinuous, and is
affected my incremental NTP and clock-adjtime(2) adjustments.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=540872
epoll_wait.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that 'timeout' is a *minimum* interval
Make it clear that 'timeout' is a minimum interval; the actual
interval will be rounded up to the system clock granularity,
and may overrun because of kernel scheduling delays.
execve.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewording to deemphasize libc5 details
fork.2
Mike Frysinger
ERRORS: add ENOSYS
Can occur on, for example, non-MMU hardware.
getcpu.2
Mike Frysinger
Add RETURN VALUE and ERRORS sections
Michael Kerrisk
Refer reader to NOTES for more info about 'tcache'
Michael Kerrisk
DESCRIPTION: reword a sentence to be clearer
io_cancel.2
io_destroy.2
io_getevents.2
io_setup.2
io_submit.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite to focus on system call API
Rewrite to focus on the system call interface, adding
some notes on the libaio wrapper differences.
See the following mail:
2012-05-07 "aio manuals", linux-man@vger.kernel.org
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/1935/focus=2910
Other minor rewrites.
mount.2
Michael Kerrisk
Comment out an old Linux libc detail
open.2
Nick Piggin [KOSAKI Motohiro, Jan Kara, Hugh Dickins]
Describe race of direct I/O and fork()
Rework 04cd7f64, which didn't capture the details correctly.
See the April/May 2012 linux-man@ mail thread "[PATCH]
Describe race of direct read and fork for unaligned buffers"
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/77571
poll.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that 'timeout' is a *minimum* interval
Make it clear that 'timeout' is a minimum interval; the actual
interval will be rounded up to the system clock granularity,
and may overrun because of kernel scheduling delays.
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify discussion of wrapper function emulation
Clarify that glibc (as well as old libc) provides emulation
using select(2) on older kernels that don't have a poll()
system call.
Michael Kerrisk
Make the meaning of a zero timeout explicit
Clarify that timeout==0 causes an immediate return, even if
no file descriptors are ready.
pread.2
Michael Kerrisk [Kasper Dupont]
BUGS: Note O_APPEND + pwrite() does the wrong thing
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43178
recvmmsg.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that 'timeout' is a *minimum* interval
Make it clear that 'timeout' interval will be rounded up to the
system clock granularity, and may overrun because of kernel
scheduling delays.
select.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that 'timeout' is a *minimum* interval
Make it clear that 'timeout' is a minimum interval; the actual
interval will be rounded up to the system clock granularity,
and may overrun because of kernel scheduling delays.
Michael Kerrisk
Expand description of the self-pipe trick
Michael Kerrisk
Add further details on pselect6() system call that underlies pselect()
semop.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that 'timeout' of semtimedop() is a *minimum* interval
Make it clear that 'timeout' interval will be rounded up to the
system clock granularity, and may overrun because of kernel
scheduling delays.
signal.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that 'sig_t' requires _BSD_SOURCE
Also remove some old Linux libc details
sigwaitinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that 'timeout' of sigtimedwait() is a *minimum* interval
Make it clear that 'timeout' is a minimum interval; the actual
interval will be rounded up to the system clock granularity,
and may overrun because of kernel scheduling delays.
stat.2
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Formatting fixes
From "groff -ww" (or "man --warnings=w ..."):
warning: around line 442: table wider than line width
GNU man uses line length of 78.
Use text blocks. Two spaces between sentences or better: start
each sentence in a new line.
syscalls.2
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Formatting fixes
From "groff -ww ..." (or "man --warnings=w ..."):
warning: around line 157: table wider than line width
Have to use text blocks. Move some text to its correct column.
Split text to two columns to avoid hyphenation.
sysinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove reference to obsolete libc5
syslog.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove some details about obsolete Linux libc
aio_cancel.3
aio_error.3
aio_fsync.3
aio_read.3
aio_return.3
aio_suspend.3
aio_write.3
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: Add/update ENOSYS error
aio_cancel.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify what happens when a request isn't successfully canceled
Michael Kerrisk
Add pointers to aio(7) and sigevent(7)
dbopen.3
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Add header file <fcntl.h>
Upstreamed from Debian, and consistent with FreeBSD
dbopen(3) man page.
fmemopen.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note details of POSIX.1-2008 specification of 'b' in 'mode'
Michael Kerrisk [Rich Felker]
BUGS: fmemopen() doesn't correctly set file position in some cases
If 'mode' is append, but 'size' does not cover a null byte
in 'buf', then fmemopen() incorrectly sets the initial file
position to -1, rather than the next byte after the end of
the buffer.
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13151
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: fmemopen() incorrectly handles size==0 case
If size is zero, fmemopen() fails, This is surprising behavior,
and not specified in POSIX.1-2008.
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11216
Reported-by; Alex Shinn <alexshinn@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: Note silent ABI change for fmemopen() in glibc 2.9
Michael Kerrisk [Rich Felker]
BUGS: Append mode does not force writes to append
Append mode correctly sets the initial offset but does
not force subsequent writes to append at end of stream.
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13152
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Blake]
BUGS: Note inconsistent treatment of 'b' in 'mode'
fopen() permits, for example, both "w+b" and "wb+",
but only the latter is meaningful to fmemopen().
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12836
fopencookie.3
Michael Kerrisk [Petr Baudis]
Correct description of return for user-supplied 'write' function
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2074
getaddrinfo.3
Jean-Michel Vourgère
Note that AI_ADDRCONFIG is not affected by loopback addresses
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660479
iconv.3
Michael Kerrisk
Upstream useful NOTE from Debian
Warn the reader that the pointer arguments can't be
interpreted as C style strings. Also, note possible
alignment requirements for the referenced bytes sequences,
Michael Kerrisk
Write a better paragraph introducing iconv() and its arguments
isgreater.3
Michael Kerrisk [Vincent Lefevre]
Clarify that the arguments to these macros must be real-floating
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609033
lio_listio.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that async notification occurs when *all* I/Os complete
makedev.3
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Correct return types of major() and minor()
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754188
Reported-by; Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac@redhat.com>
malloc.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add malloc_info(3)
malloc_get_state.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix wordos in function names in NAME line
mallopt.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix example program
The example code was a version that was not consistent with
the shell output shown on the page.
Reported-bY: Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Michael Kerrisk
Restore accidentally omitted line in shell session
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add malloc_stats(3)
mmap64.3
Michael Kerrisk
Change target of link to mmap.2 (was mmap2.2)
Upstreamed from Red Hat / Fedora
realpath.3
Michael Kerrisk [Casper.Dik@oracle.com]
Remove note about Solaris possibly returning a relative path
syslog.3
Michael Kerrisk [Ralph Corderoy]
Document behavior when 'ident' argument to openlog() is NULL
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/382096
Michael Kerrisk
Update CONFORMING TO for POSIX.1-2008
POSIX.1-2008 doesn't change any details, but make
that more explicit.
undocumented.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove some functions that have been documented
sd.4
Michael Kerrisk
Remove reference to nonexistent scsi(4) page
Upstreamed from RedHat / Fedora
sk98lin.4
Michael Kerrisk [Stephen Hemminger]
Note that this driver was removed in 2.6.28
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/528020
passwd.5
Michael Kerrisk
Upstream pieces from Red Hat/Fedora
Note mention of empty password field.
Add description of "*NP*" in password field.
Michael Kerrisk
Various minor fixes and improvements
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Note that CAP_SYS_ADMIN processes can override file-max
Upstreamed from red Hat / Fedora
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/[pid]/cgroup
Upstreamed from Red Hat / Fedora
resolv.conf.5
Michael Kerrisk
Take a Debian improvement into upstream
tzfile.5
Michael Kerrisk
Mention timezone directories in DESCRIPTION
Note that timezone files are usually in /usr/lib/zoneinfo
or /usr/share/zoneinfo.
Michael Kerrisk
Drop SYNOPSIS
The SYNOPSIS doesn't correspond to a user-visible file.
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add pointer to glibc source file timezone/tzfile.h
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add tzset(3) and tzselect(8)
ascii.7
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Indent for "troff" makes table too wide
Fix following from "groff -t -ww ...":
warning: around line 53: table wider than line width
Extra indent for "troff" makes the table look misplaced
(default "ps" output).
cp1251.7
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
table too wide
From "nroff -ww -t ...":
warning: around line 44: table wider than line width
Columns are made narrower (column gutter decreased).
ipv6.7
Stefan Puiu
Add ENODEV error for bind() to link-local IPv6 address
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk [Simone Piccardi]
Clarify that SIGLOST is unused
Michael Kerrisk
Comment out crufty BUGS text on SIGLOST
It must be a very long time since the statement there
about SIGLOST was true. (The text seems to date back to
1996.)
Michael Kerrisk
Update architectures for tables of signal numbers
utf-8.7
Brian M. Carlson
Two clarifications
This patch clarifies that 0xc0 and 0xc1 are not valid in any UTF-8
encoding[0], and it also references RFC 3629 instead of RFC 2279.
[0] In order to have 0xc0, you'd have to have a two-byte encoding
with all the data bits zero in the first byte (and thus only six
bits of data), which would be an ASCII character encoded in the
non-shortest form. Similarly with 0xc1.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538641
ldconfig.8
nscd.8
Michael Kerrisk
Remove path prefix from NAME line
Command names shown in NAME are normally just the basename,
not the full pathname of the command.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.42 ====================
Released: 2012-08-14, Konolfingen
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:
Aaron Peschel <aaron.peschel@gmail.com>
Adrian Dabrowski <atrox@seclab.tuwien.ac.at>
Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@gmail.com>
Alan Curry <pacman@kosh.dhis.org>
Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Colin McCabe <cmccabe@alumni.cmu.edu>
Daniel Zingaro <daniel.zingaro@utoronto.ca>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@gmail.com>
Henry Hu <henry.hu.sh@gmail.com>
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Jim Hill <gjthill@gmail.com>
JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon@iki.fi>
Martin H <textshell-tSIEzQ@neutronstar.dyndns.org>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Rasmus Villemoes <Rasmus.Villemoes@decode.is>
Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Shawn Landden <shawnlandden@gmail.com>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Tolga Dalman <tolga.dalman@googlemail.com>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
ÐаÑк ÐоÑенбеÑг <socketpair@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Sami Kerola
Global fix: use UR macro where applicable
The syntax .UR http://example.com paired with .UE will create
links which one can interact, if the pager allows that. One
way to see the effect is ask the man(1) command to use browser
display, e.g.:
man -H man7/uri.7
("\:" is optional groff syntax to permit hyphenless line breaks.)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
ldd.1
Michael Kerrisk
Add security note on untrusted executables
See also http://www.catonmat.net/blog/ldd-arbitrary-code-execution/
and
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html
clone.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite discussion of sys_clone
futex.2
ÐаÑк ÐоÑенбеÑг
Consolidate error descriptions to ERRORS
Michael Kerrisk
Various wording fix-ups
Michael Kerrisk
Fix description of EINVAL error
The current text seems incorrect. Replace with a more general
description.
getdents.2
select_tut.2
atof.3
atoi.3
pthread_create.3
pthread_sigmask.3
rtime.3
setbuf.3
tsearch.3
netlink.7
Michael Kerrisk [Jan Engelhardt]
Remove unneeded casts
get_robust_list.2
get_thread_area.2
getcpu.2
getdents.2
gettid.2
io_cancel.2
io_destroy.2
io_getevents.2
io_setup.2
io_submit.2
ioprio_set.2
kexec_load.2
llseek.2
modify_ldt.2
mq_getsetattr.2
pivot_root.2
readdir.2
rt_sigqueueinfo.2
set_thread_area.2
sgetmask.2
spu_create.2
spu_run.2
subpage_prot.2
sysctl.2
tkill.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add note to SYNOPSIS that there is no glibc wrapper for system call
Reduce the chance that the reader may be misled into thinking
that there is a wrapper function for this system call by noting
explicitly in the SYNOPSIS that there is no glibc wrapper and
pointing the reader to NOTES for further details.
ioprio_set.2
Colin McCabe
Clarify the multithreaded behavior of ioprio_set(2)
Michael Kerrisk [ÐаÑк ÐоÑенбеÑг, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]
Document who==0 for IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS and IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP
For IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, who==0 means operate on the caller.
For IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP, who==0 means operate on the caller's
process group.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652443
migrate_pages.2
Michael Kerrisk [Christoph Lameter, JoonSoo Kim]
Fix description of return value
mount.2
Michael Kerrisk
For MS_REMOUNT, source is ignored
mprotect.2
Michael Kerrisk [Rasmus Villemoes]
'addr' argument is not const
As reported by Rasmus:
Both my system's man-pages (3.22) and the latest online
(3.41) show:
int mprotect(const void *addr, size_t len, int prot);
as the prototype for mprotect(2). However, POSIX [1] and the
actual sys/mman.h (on all the systems I checked) do not have
the const qualifier on the first argument.
msgctl.2
semctl.2
shmctl.2
svipc.7
Michael Kerrisk
Don't mention that ipc_perm is defined in <sys/ipc.h>
There's no need to mention that the 'ipc_perm' structure
is defined in <sys/ipc.h>. That's an implementation detail,
and furthermore <sys/ipc.h> is itself included by the other
System V IPC header files. The current text might lead the
reader to conclude that they must include <sys/ipc.h>, which
is not the case (it is required neither on Linux, nor by the
standards).
msgctl.2
msgget.2
msgop.2
semctl.2
semget.2
semop.2
shmctl.2
shmget.2
Michael Kerrisk
NOTES: <sys/types.h> and <sys/ipc.h> aren't strictly needed
Add text to NOTES to say that the <sys/types.h> and <sys/ipc.h>
header files aren't required by Linux or the standards, but may
be needed for portability to old systems.
ptrace.2
Denys Vlasenko
Explain WNOHANG behavior and EINTR bug
I didn't like the "SIGKILL operates similarly, with exceptions"
phrase (if it's different, then it's not "similar", right?),
and now I got around to changing it. Now it says simply:
"SIGKILL does not generate signal-delivery-stop and therefore
the tracer can't suppress it."
Replaced "why WNOHANG is not reliable" example with a more
realistic one (the one which actually inspired to add this
information to man page in the first place): we got
ESRCH - process is gone! - but waitpid(WNOHANG) can still
confusingly return 0 "no processes to wait for".
Replaced "This means that unneeded trailing arguments may
be omitted" part with a much better recommendation
to never do that and to supply zero arguments instead.
(The part about "undocumentedness" of gcc behavior was bogus,
btw - deleted).
Expanded BUGS section with the explanation and an example
of visible strace behavior on the buggy syscalls which
exit with EINTR on ptrace attach. I hope this will lead
to people submitting better bug reports to lkml about
such syscalls.
seteuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note glibc version where setegid() implementation changed
In glibc 2.2/2.3, setegid() switched from setregid() to setresgid().
set_tid_address.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rename 'ctid' argument for consistency with clone(2) page
Michael Kerrisk
Some rewordings and minor clarifications
sigwaitinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk [Daniel Zingaro]
Some wording clarifications
Mainly rewording things like "is delivered" to "becomes pending",
which is more accurate terminology.
syscall.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add some more details to the description of syscall(2)
And add another example of using syscall() to the program example.
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add kcmp(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Move discussion of set_zone_reclaim(2) out of main table
This system call was never visible to user space, so it makes
sense to move it out of the main table of system calls into
the notes below the table.
getifaddrs.3
Michael Kerrisk [Adrian Dabrowski]
Note that ifa_addr and ifa_netmask can be NULL
readdir.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jan Engelhardt]
Handle -1 error from pathconf() in example code snippet
Improve the example demonstrating allocation of a buffer
for readdir_r() to handle -1 error return from pathconf().
Otherwise, naive readers may think that pathconf() return
value can be used without checking.
realpath.3
Shawn Landden
Use past tense with ancient history (libc4, libc5)
regex.3
Michael Kerrisk
Correct SEE ALSO reference to glibc manual "regex" section
rtime.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jan Engelhardt]
Fix broken pointer cast in example code
sem_close.3
sem_destroy.3
sem_getvalue.3
sem_init.3
sem_open.3
sem_post.3
sem_unlink.3
sem_wait.3
sem_overview.7
Michael Kerrisk
Note that "cc -pthread" is required; "-lrt" no longer works
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/874418
sigwait.3
Michael Kerrisk
Reword "is delivered" to "becomes pending"
strcat.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add some text to emphasize the dangers of buffer overruns
Michael Kerrisk
NOTES: Add discussion of strlcat()
strcpy.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that info is lost when strncpy() doesn't null terminate
Michael Kerrisk
Add some text to emphasize possibility of buffer runs with strcpy()
Michael Kerrisk
NOTES: Add a discussion of strlcpy()
Inspired by https://lwn.net/Articles/506530/
Michael Kerrisk
Fix description of the null-byte padding performed by strncpy()
tsearch.3
Michael Kerrisk
NOTES: remove redundant discussion of unorthodox use of term "postorder"
This point is already covered at greater length in the main
text of the page (See the piece "More commonly, ...").
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify use for first argument to the twalk() 'action' function
There's a number of details in POSIX that are omitted in
the current version of this page.
Michael Kerrisk
Some wording fixes
core.5
Michael Kerrisk
Note effect of madvise(2) MADV_DONTDUMP flag
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND
glob.7
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Change 8 bit characters to 7 bit representation
Fixes rendering errors for accented 'a' characters.
Michael Kerrisk [Aaron Peschel]
Update bash(1) command used to obtain classical globbing behavior
The man page formerly noted the bash(1) v1 command to do this.
iso_8859-1.7
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Explanation of SOFT HYPHEN and the code for it
<groff: iso_8859-2.7>:89: warning: can't find special character `shc'
This is the only "iso_8859-*.7" file that has this (now)
undefined character. The code in column four in "iso_8859-1.7" is
"0x2D" ("HYPHEN, MINUS SIGN" or "HYPHEN-MINUS") instead of "0xAD".
See Debian bug 156154 (or package "manpages").
There should be an explanation for this graphic character and the
code should be 0xAD in iso_8859-1.7 (as in all others), even
though "[gn]roff" does not display a "HYPHEN" in that position of
the table.
The line with "SOFT HYPHEN" gets a footnote and a short
explanation.
mdoc.7
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Fixing a warning and a table
Fis warning from "groff -ww ..." (or "man --warnings=w ..."):
<groff: mdoc.7>:294: warning:
tab character in unquoted macro argument
In one table the distance between columns is too small in the
"ps" output. (Bug in the groff "doc.tmac" macro?)
mdoc.samples.7
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Fix warnings from [ng]roff, corrections
From "man -ww ..." (groff -ww ...):
<standard input>:541: warning:
tab character in unquoted macro argument
[+3 similar warnings]
<standard input>:813: warning: macro `Pu' not defined
Usage: .Rv -std in sections 2 and 3 only (#1669)
mdoc warning: A .Bl directive has no matching .El (#1821)
String "Pu" defined as a row of punctuation characters.
".Bl" and ".El" fixed.
Some arguments, that start with a period or are the name of a
macro, protected with "\&".
Variable name for macro ".Rv" corrected.
netdevice.7
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Line in table too long
Fix warning from "man ..." ("nroff -ww ..."):
nroff: netdevice.7: warning: around line 98:
table wider than line width
Fix: No right adjustment in text blocks in tables.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673873
netlink.7
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Line in table is too long
Fix warning from "man ..." ("nroff -ww ..."):
nroff: netlink.7: warning: around line 195:
table wider than line width
Horizontal line incorporated into table.
No right adjustment of text blocks in tables.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673875
Simon Paillard [Herbert Xu]
Change description of "*_pid" fields to "Port ID"
As reported by Herbert Xu, these should not be considered as PIDs.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=383296
rtnetlink.7
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Line in table too long
Fix warning from "man ..." ("nroff -ww ..."):
nroff: rtnetlink.7: warning: around line 415:
table wider than line width
Column gutter reduced to fit line length.
Right adjustment in text blocks removed in tables.
Some header made centered in tables.
One table put on same page.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674051
socket.7
Martin H
Document SO_MARK socket option
Commit 4a19ec5800fc3bb64e2d87c4d9fdd9e636086fe0 in Jan 2008 added
the new SO_MARK socket option.
This patch is based on text from the commit message.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16461.
svipc.7
Michael Kerrisk
SYNOPSIS: Remove include of <sys/types.h> and <sys/ipc.h>
Including <sys/types.h> and <sys/ipc.h> isn't needed on Linux
and isn't really relevant for the explanation on this page.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.43 ====================
Released: 2012-10-05, 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:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Anatoli Klassen <anatoli@aksoft.net>
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>
Fredrik Arnerup <arnerup@kth.se>
Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org>
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
Stephane Fillod <fillods@users.sf.net>
Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
getenv.3
Michael Kerrisk [Florian Weimer, Andreas Schwab]
Document secure_getenv(3)
New and changed links
---------------------
phys.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to unimplemented.2
secure_getenv.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to getenv.3
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/-/\\-/ when real hyphen is required (e.g., in code)
Various pages
David Prévot [Michael Kerrisk]
Global fix: Various consistency fixes for SEE ALSO
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: use "Linux kernel source" consistently
Rather than "kernel source".
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: disable justification and hyphenation in SEE ALSO
For a better visual result, disable justification and hyphenation
in SEE ALSO where page names are long.
syscalls.2
uname.2
boot.7
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/OS/operating system/
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
epoll_wait.2
Michael Kerrisk [Fredrik Arnerup]
Describe timeout limitation in kernels < 2.6.37
As reported by Fredrik (and as far as I can tell the problem
went back to 2.6.0):
The timeout argument has an upper limit. Any values above that
limit are treated the same as -1, i.e. to wait indefinitely.
The limit is given by:
#define EP_MAX_MSTIMEO min(1000ULL * MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT / HZ, \
(LONG_MAX - 999ULL) / HZ)
That is, the limit depends on the size of a long and the timer
frequency. Assuming the a long is never smaller than 32 bits
and HZ never larger than 1000, the worst case is 35 minutes.
I think this should be mentioned under "BUGS".
Although this is likely to be fixed in the future
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/8/144), the problem exists in
at least 2.6.14 - 2.6.35. I don't know if select(2) and poll(2)
are affected.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20762
Michael Kerrisk
Add pointer to select(2) for discussion of close in another thread
getitimer.2
Michael Kerrisk [Trevor Woerner]
Note Linux's odd handling of the new_value==NULL case
Michael Kerrisk [Trevor Woerner]
Fix types used to declare fields in timeval struct
keyctl.2
David Prévot
Reorder SEE ALSO, without .br
poll.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add pointer to select(2) for discussion of close in another thread
select.2
Michael Kerrisk [Stephane Fillod]
Note behavior if monitored file descriptor is closed in another thread
Executive summary: a sane application can't rely on any
particular behavior if another thread closes a file descriptor
being monitored by select().
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40852
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify equivalent pselect() code in terms of threads
s/sigprogmask/pthread_sigmask/
semop.2
Michael Kerrisk
Recast discussion of blocking behavior in terms of threads
semop() blocks the calling thread, not the process.
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add clone(2)
Give reader a clue about CLONE_SYSVSEM.
shutdown.2
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Dumazet]
Document EINVAL error (and associated bug)
Eric Dumazet noted that EINVAL was not documented. Some further
digging shows that it's also not diagnosed consistently.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47111.
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk
Tweak SA_RESETHAND description
timer_settime.2
Michael Kerrisk
Small rewording around discussion of pointer arguments
wait4.2
Adrian Bunk
Note that these functions are nonstandard and recommend alternatives
Some edits to Adrian's patch by mtk.
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: Note SUS details for wait3()
gnu_get_libc_version.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove unneeded "#define _GNU_SOURCE" from SYNOPSIS
pthread_kill.3
pthread_sigqueue.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove wording "another"
Writing "another thread" in these pages implies that these
functions can't be used to send a signal to the calling thread
itself, which is of course untrue.
sigvec.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add "int" arg to sv_handler definition in sigvec structure
Michael Kerrisk
Fix small error in discussion of blocking of signals
The signal that causes the handler to be invoked is blocked,
but saying "by default" implies that this can be changed via
the API. It cannot. (One needs sigaction(2) for that.)
syslog.3
Simon Josefsson
Remove (apparently bogus) text claiming LOG_AUTH is deprecated
LOG_AUTH is in POSIX, and widely available. There
seems to be no basis to the claim it is deprecated.
Quoting Simon:
I cannot find any other source that claim LOG_AUTH is
deprecated in any way. LOG_AUTH is distinct from
LOG_AUTHPRIV. The GNU C Library manual only documents
LOG_AUTH. The header files contains both without any
comment. Common systems like Debian appear to refer to
both auth and authpriv facilities in syslog configurations.
Popular daemons appear to use both facilities.
Both facilities are discussed in several RFCs.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46091
ttyname.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add ctermid(3)
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify header file related to 'flags' field of /proc/PID/stat
Michael Kerrisk [Frédéric Brière]
Update description of 'starttime' field of /proc/PID/stat
The unit of measurement changed from jiffies to clock ticks in
Linux 2.6.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=675891
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
Michael Kerrisk [Kees Cook]
Document /proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks
Based on text in Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt by Kees Cook
Michael Kerrisk [Kees Cook]
Document /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks
Based on text in Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt by Kees Cook
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document interaction of CAP_SYSLOG and /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict
ip.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add ipv6(7)
SEE ALSO: Add icmp(7)
man-pages.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add some advice about disabling hyphenation in SEE ALSO
ld.so.8
Michael Kerrisk
Describe interpretation of slashes in dependency strings
Michael Kerrisk
Repeat note that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is ignored in privileged programs
This point is already noted when discussing search order for
libraries, but it's worth repeating under the specific discussion
of LD_LIBRARY_PATH further down the page.
Michael Kerrisk
Add some details for LD_PRELOAD
Note that LD_PRELOAD list separator can be space or colon
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.44 ====================
Released: 2012-11-07, Barcelona
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:
Bert Hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.se>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
delete_module.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite to Linux 2.6+ reality
Michael Kerrisk
Change license and copyright
There is now nothing left of the original FSF-copyrighted
page. So, change the copyright and license.
Michael Kerrisk [Lucas De Marchi, Rusty Russell]
Substantial reorganization after comments from Rusty Russell
Rusty notes that O_NONBLOCK is almost always used in
practice. Therefore, it would be better to reorganize
the page to consider that "the default".
init_module.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite to Linux 2.6+ reality
Michael Kerrisk
Change copyright and license
Little of the original page now remains. Change
copyright and license
Michael Kerrisk [Rusty Russell]
Changes after review comments from Rusty Russell
Kees Cook
Add various pieces describing Linux 2.6+ behavior
Pieces take from, or inspired by, a patch sent by Kees.
getauxval.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document getauxval() function added in glibc 2.16
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: Use consistent capitalization in NAME section
The line(s) in the NAME section should only use capitals
where English usage dictates that. Otherwise, use
lowercase throughout.
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: "userspace" ==> "user space" or "user-space"
Existing pages variously use "userspace or "user space".
But, "userspace" is not quite an English word.
So change "userspace" to "user space" or, when used
attributively, "user-space".
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clock_getres.2
clock_nanosleep.2
Michael Kerrisk
Linking with -lrt is no longer needed from glibc 2.17 onward
create_module.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that this system call is present only in kernels before 2.6
Michael Kerrisk
Note that ENOSYS probably indicates kernel 2.6+
execve.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document treatment of PR_SET_PDEATHSIG on execve()
Michael Kerrisk
Document treatment of SECBIT_KEEP_CAPS securebits flag on execve()
fork.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note treatment of default timer slack value on fork()
getdomainname.2
Simon Paillard [Lars Wirzenius]
Point out that these calls relate to NIS, not DNS
See http://bugs.debian.org/295635
get_kernel_syms.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that this system call is present only in kernels before 2.6
ipc.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update note on architectures that don't have ipc()
Replace mention of ia64 with x86-64 and ARM.
link.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add EPERM error triggered by /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlink
prctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Mention Documentation/prctl/no_new_privs.txt for PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS
Kees Cook
update seccomp sections for mode 2 (BPF)
This adds a short summary of the arguments used
for "mode 2" (BPF) seccomp.
Michael Kerrisk
Small improvements to PR_SET_SECCOMP discussion
Note type of 'arg3' for SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER.
Add pointer to Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt.
Michael Kerrisk
Note 'seccomp' semantics with respect to fork(), execve(), and prctl()
Michael Kerrisk
Document PR_SET_TIMERSLACK and PR_GET_TIMERSLACK
Michael Kerrisk
Reword PR_SET_NAME and PR_GET_NAME in terms of threads
Plus tfix
Kees Cook
document PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, PR_GET_NO_NEW_PRIVS
This adds a short description of the no_new_privs bit,
as described in Documentation/prctl/no_new_privs.txt.
ptrace.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that some operations are not present on all architectures
PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETGREFS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS,
and PTRACE_GETSPREGS are not present on all architectures.
PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP are present only
on x86.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=122383
query_module.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add a few words clarifying reference to /sys/module
Michael Kerrisk
Note that this system call is present only in kernels before 2.6
Michael Kerrisk
Note that ENOSYS probably indicates kernel 2.6+
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add modinfo(8) and lsinfo(8)
Michael Kerrisk
Move some information in NOTES to VERSIONS
socketcall.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update note on architectures that don't have socketcall()
Replace mention of ia64 with x86-64 and ARM.
times.2
Thomas Habets
Recommend clock_gettime(2) as alternative to times(2)
clock_getcpuclockid.3
Michael Kerrisk
Linking with -lrt is no longer needed from glibc 2.17 onward
fts.3
Simon Paillard [James Youngman]
Improve description of physical vs. logical tree walking
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633505
getenv.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add getauxval(3)
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/meminfo
Info mostly taken from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
and Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt.
Michael Kerrisk
Default for /proc/sys/fs/protected_{hardlinks,symlinks} is now 0
The default setting of 1 in/proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks
and /proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks caused one too many
breakages for Linus's taste, so commit 561ec64ae67e changed
the default for both files to 0.
Note system call error yielded by /proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks
Note that violating 'protected_symlinks' restrictions
causes system calls to fail with the error EACCES.
Michael Kerrisk
Since Linux 2.6.27, /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe depends on CONFIG_MODULES
ipv6.7
Bert Hubert
Document IPV6_RECVPKTINFO
man-pages.7
Michael Kerrisk
Note rules for capitalization in NAME section
time.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add a subsection on timer slack
ld.so.8
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add getauxval(3)
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.45 ====================
Released: 2012-12-21, Christchurch
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:
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Felipe Pena <felipensp@gmail.com>
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Gao Feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Jan Glauber <jang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Rens van der Heijden <rens.vanderheijden@uni-ulm.de>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud@gmail.com>
Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
s390_runtime_instr.2
Jan Glauber
New page for s390-specific s390_runtime_instr(2)
if_nameindex.3
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Document if_nameindex(3) and if_freenameindex(3)
Michael Kerrisk
Edits, improvements and corrections to Hideaki's page
Michael Kerrisk
Add an example program
if_nametoindex.3
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
New page documenting if_nametoindex(3) and if_indextoname(3)
New and changed links
---------------------
if_freenameindex.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to if_nameindex.3
if_indextoname.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to if_nametoindex.3
Global changes
--------------
sysconf.3
cciss.4
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/runtime/run time/
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
Michael Kerrisk
Since 2.6.30, CLONE_NEWIPC also supports POSIX message queues
delete_module.2
Michael Kerrisk
Small rewording of description of effect of O_TRUNC
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk [Trevor Woerner]
Document Linux's nonstandard treatment or RLIMIT_CPU soft limit
Upon encountering the RLIMIT_CPU soft limit when a SIGXCPU handler
has been installed, Linux invokes the signal handler *and* raises
the soft limit by one second. This behavior repeats until the
limit is encountered. No other implementation that I tested
(Solaris 10, FreeBSD 9.0, OpenBSD 5.0) does this, and it seems
unlikely to be POSIX-conformant. The (Linux-specific)
RLIMIT_RTTIME soft limit exhibits similar behavior.
Michael Kerrisk
Point reader at discussion of /proc/[pid]/limits in proc(5)
io_getevents.2
Michael Kerrisk
io_getevents() may cause segfault when called with invalid ctx_id
For reference see: http://marc.info/?l=linux-aio&m=130089887002435&w=2
recv.2
Michael Kerrisk [Eric Dumazet]
UNIX domain sockets support MSG_TRUNC since 3.4
sendmmsg.2
Elie De Brauwer
Add example program for sendmmsg()
stat.2
Simon Paillard
Clarify description of EOVERFLOW error
The EOVERFLOW error is not only for st_size, but also
inode and block size fields. See glibc source file
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/xstatconv.c and kernel source
file fs/stat.c. Also, fix bit/byte confusion
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604928
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update various references to "i386" to "x86"
Michael Kerrisk
Add s390_runtime_instr(2)
sysctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Mention CONFIG_SYSCTL_SYSCALL
Michael Kerrisk
Calls to sysctl() log warnings to the kernel log since 2.6.24
syslog.2
Michael Kerrisk
Substantially reorganize discussion of commands
Make the layout of the discussion of the commands
more readable.
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel symbolic 'type' names
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_UNREAD semantics
SYSLOG_ACTION_SIZE_UNREAD returns the number of bytes
available for reading via SYSLOG_ACTION_READ.
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify where SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL places data it reads
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify semantics of SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR
The SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR command (5) does not really clear
the ring buffer; rather it affects the semantics of what
is returned by commands 3 (SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_ALL) and
4 (SYSLOG_ACTION_READ_CLEAR).
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify discussion of privileges for commands 3 and 10
Michael Kerrisk
Add mention of CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
wait.2
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: Document odd waitid() behavior when 'infop' is NULL
getifaddrs.3
Michael Kerrisk [Julien Cristau]
Update description of ifa_data to Linux 2.6+ reality
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526778
memcmp.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Enhance RETURN VALUE text and remove redundant text from DESCRIPTION
Note that sign of result equals sign of difference between
first two bytes that differ (treated as "unsigned char")."
mkstemp.3
Michael Kerrisk [Florian Weimer]
Deemphasize discussion of mode 066 in glibc 2.0.6
Glibc 2.0.6 is now so ld that the discussion of details
of that version can be deemphasized placing just under
NOTES.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51811
strcmp.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Enhance RETURN VALUE text and remove redundant text from DESCRIPTION
Note that sign of result equals sign of difference between
first two bytes that differ (treated as "unsigned char")."
ttyname.3
Michael Kerrisk
Fix confused text in ERRORS
The existing text suggested that the ERRORS applied
only for ttyname_r(). However, 2 of the 3 errors
can occur for ttyname().
undocumented.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove some now documented functions
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk [Jim Paris]
Correct description of SwapFree in /proc/meminfo
Michael Kerrisk
Note change of /proc/[pid]/limits file permissions in 2.6.36
resolv.conf.5
Simon Paillard
Document IPv6 format for nameserver
See: http://bugs.debian.org/610036
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk [Rens van der Heijden]
Correct URL for POSIX.1e draft
ipv6.7
Gao Feng
Add description of getsockopt() for IPV6_MTU
In IPv4,IP_MTU is only supported by getsockopt.
In IPv6, we can use IPV6_MTU to set socket's MTU,
but the return value of getsockopt() is the path MTU.
rtnetlink.7
Michael Kerrisk [Julien Cristau]
Update description of IFLA_STATS to Linux 2.6+ reality
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526778
socket.7
Michael Kerrisk [YOSHIFUJI Hideaki]
Document 'sockaddr' and 'sockaddr_storage' types
Andi Kleen
Explain effect of SO_SNDTIMEO for connect()
When SO_SNDTIMEO is set before connect(), then connect()
may return EWOULDBLOCK when the timeout fires.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.46 ====================
Released: 2013-01-27, Canberra
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:
Andrew Perepechko <andrew_perepechko@xyratex.com>
Cédric Boutillier <cedric.boutillier@gmail.com>
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Daan Spitz <daan.f.spitz@gmail.com>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
James Noble <James.Noble@daktronics.com>
Justin Lebar <justin.lebar@gmail.com>
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Mark Hills <mark@pogo.org.uk>
Maxin B. John <maxin.john@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Michal Gorny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Peter Budny <bigpeteb@gmail.com>
Peter Lekeynstein <lekensteyn@gmail.com>
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Shawn Landden <shawnlandden@gmail.com>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Starlight <starlight.2013q1@binnacle.cx>
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Wolfgang Rohdewald <wolfgang@rohdewald.de>
Zsbán Ambrus <ambrus@math.bme.hu>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
kcmp.2
Cyrill Gorcunov, Michael Kerrisk
New page for kcmp(2)
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
init_module.2
Michael Kerrisk [Kees Cook, Rusty Russell, Lucas De Marchi]
Document finit_module(2)
Rusty Russell [Lucas De Marchi, Kees Cook]
Document finit_module() 'flags' argument
Document MODULE_INIT_IGNORE_MODVERSIONS and
MODULE_INIT_IGNORE_VERMAGIC. (Some edits by mtk.)
New and changed links
---------------------
finit_module.2
Michael Kerrisk
New link to init_module.2
__after_morecore_hook.3
__free_hook.3
__malloc_initialize_hook.3
__memalign_hook.3
__realloc_hook.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to malloc_hook.3
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/tty/terminal/
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clone.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel versions for various CLONE_* constants
Michael Kerrisk
CLONE_NEWIPC governs mechanisms that don't have filesystem pathnames
Michael Kerrisk
CLONE_NEWIPC doesn't mount the POSIX MQ file system
Michael Kerrisk
Add an example program (CLONE_NEWUTS)
Michael Kerrisk
Some reworking of CLONE_NEWIPC text
No substantial content changes.
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add kcmp(2)
SEE ALSO: add setns(2)
fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk
FALLOC_FL_* flags are defined in glibc only since 2.18
getxattr.2
removexattr.2
setxattr.2
Michael Kerrisk [Andrew Perepechko, ]
Note that ENOATTR is a synonym for ENODATA
Various people have pointed out that strace(1) shows ENODATA
for the case where the named attribute does not exist, or
the process has no access to this attribute. ENODATA
and ENOATTR are in fact defined as synonyms. Point this out
in the man page, so that people understand the strace(1) info.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51871
getxattr.2
listxattr.2
removexattr.2
setxattr.2
Michael Kerrisk
Put errors under ERRORS section
The errno values on these pages were listed in a nonstandard
way under the RETURN VALUE section. Put them in ERRORS sections.
init_module.2
Michael Kerrisk [Rusty Russell]
ERRORS: Add errors for module signatures (EBADMSG, ENOKEY)
link.2
mkdir.2
mknod.2
open.2
rename.2
symlink.2
write.2
mkfifo.3
Mark Hills
Document EDQUOT error
The return error EDQUOT is not documented in open(2), write(2),
symlink(2) etc.
Whether inodes or disk blocks are required for each function
is something I based on received wisdom and BSD documentation,
rather than tracing the code to the kernel. For symlink(2)
this certainly depends on the file system type.
listxattr.2
Michael Kerrisk [Theodore Ts'o]
Fix RETURN VALUE description
On success, 0 may be returned, so change wording from
"positive number" to "nonnegative number".
outb.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add SYNOPSIS
prctl.2
Kees Cook
Document PR_SET_PTRACER
Document the Yama LSM's prctl handler that allows processes to
declare ptrace restriction exception relationships via
PR_SET_PTRACER.
Michael Kerrisk
Make it explicit that PR_SET_PTRACER replaces previous setting
The attribute is a scalar, not a list.
Shawn Landden
Document EINVAL error for PR_SET_PTRACER
Michael Kerrisk
Document PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS
ptrace.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document PTRACE_O_EXITKILL
Michael Kerrisk
Place PTRACE_SETOPTIONS list in alphabetical order
query_module.2
Michael Kerrisk
Must be called using syscall(2)
Yes, the call is way obsolete, but add this info
for completeness.
recvmmsg.2
Elie De Brauwer
Add/correct kernel version info for recvmmsg() and MSG_WAITFORNONE
This patch isolates the since/version related fixes as requested.
This change introduces the following delta:
* The page states it was added in 2.6.32 but it is only added
2.6.33 (ref: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_33)
* The MSG_WAITFORONE flag was in turn only added in 2.6.34
(ref: http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_34)
Elie De Brauwer
Add an example program
setns.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add example program
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk [Zsbán Ambrus]
Note feature test macro requirements for 'siginfo_t'
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52931
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add kern_features(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Add utrap_install(2)
Sparc-specific, present since ancient times
Michael Kerrisk
Add finit_module(2)
sysctl.2
Michael Kerrisk [Garrett Cooper]
ERRORS: EACCES as a synonym for EPRM
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46731
and http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ltp/11413/focus=957635
From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH] sysctl03: sysctl returns EACCES after 2.6.33-rc1
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel, gmane.linux.ltp
Date: 2010-03-04 18:35:33 GMT
unshare.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update NOTES on unimplemented flags
Michael Kerrisk
Fix text problems in description of CLONE_FS
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add kcmp(2)
SEE ALSO: add setns(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Reorder CLONE_NEWUTS entry in list
difftime.3
Michael Kerrisk [Michal Gorny]
Remove crufty text about 'time_t' on "other systems"
Back in 2006, some text came in via Debian patches that seems
crufty. Remove it.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46731
getaddrinfo.3
getnameinfo.3
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Budny]
Fix some confused references to function names
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52741
getspnam.3
Michael Kerrisk [Wolfgang Rohdewald]
ERRORS: Add EACCES
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52681
__setfpucw.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add proper page cross refs for alternate functions
core.5
proc.5
Kees Cook
Clarify suid_dumpable versus core_pattern
In Linux 3.6, additional requirements were placed on core_pattern
when suid_dumpable is set to 2. Document this and include commit
references.
Justin Lebar
statm's "shared" field refers to pages backed by files
I noticed that statm's "shared" field doesn't match the sum of
all the "shared" entries in smaps [1].
The kernel docs explain that statm's "shared" field is "number of
pages that are shared (i.e. backed by a file)" [2]. smaps appears
to call a page shared if it's mapped by at least two processes,
which explains this discrepancy.
I'm not a kernel hacker, but it appears to me they do mean "i.e."
and not "e.g." in the statm description: In
fs/proc/task_mmu.c::task_statm, I see
*shared = get_mm_counter(mm, MM_FILEPAGES);
Here's a patch which updates the man page to match the (hopefully
correct) kernel docs.
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=807181
[2] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt;h=a1793d670cd01bd374eddf54ffdfc768504291ff;hb=HEAD
proc.5
Kees Cook
Put /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug in alphabetical order
Kees Cook
Document /proc/sys/kernel/dmesg_restrict
Kees Cook
Linux 3.4 changed permissions needed to change kptr_restrict
Michael Kerrisk [Samuel Thibault, Simon Paillard]
Add field numbers for /proc/PID/stat
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553413
Add numbering to /proc/stat "cpu" fields
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553413
Michael Kerrisk
Reorganize text describing /proc/stat "cpu" fields
Michael Kerrisk
Rewording of suid_dumpable text after comments from Kees Cook
Michael Kerrisk [Samuel Thibault, Simon Paillard]
Add field numbers for /proc/[pid]/statm
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553413
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/stat "cpu" "nice_guest" field
Info taken from commit ce0e7b28fb75cb003cfc8d0238613aaf1c55e797
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Lekeynstein]
Document /prod/[pid]/oom_score_adj
Text taken directly from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt,
with some light editing.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50421
shells.5
Michael Kerrisk
Add /etc/bash to list of example shells
ttytype.5
Michael Kerrisk
Add proper xref for termcap and terminfo pages
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add kcmp(2) under CAP_SYS_PTRACE
man-pages.7
Michael Kerrisk
Update description of Section 7
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.47 ====================
Released: 2013-02-12, Christchurch
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:
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
D. Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
Radek Pazdera <rpazdera@redhat.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Shawn Landden <shawnlandden@gmail.com>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Vince Weaver <vweaver1@eecs.utk.edu>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
perf_event_open.2
Vincent Weaver
New page documenting perf_event_open(2)
pthread_setname_np.3
Chandan Apsangi, Michael Kerrisk
New page for pthread_setname_np(3) and pthread_getname_np(3)
sln.8
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
New page documenting the 'sln' command provided by glibc
Inspired by a Red Hat downstream page, but with rather
more detail.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
prctl.2
Michael Kerrisk [Shawn Landden, Lennart Poettering]
Document PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER and PR_GET_CHILD_SUBREAPER
ip.7
Radek Pazdera
Add source-specific multicast sockopts
This patch adds documentation of several source-specific multicast
socket options that were added to kernel with implementation
of IGMPv3 in 2.5.68.
The following socket options were added:
IP_ADD_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP
IP_DROP_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP
IP_BLOCK_SOURCE
IP_UNBLOCK_SOURCE
IP_MSFILTER
Pages moved across sections
---------------------------
getcontext.3
Michael Kerrisk
This page really belongs in Section 3 (moved from Section 2)
getdtablesize.3
Michael Kerrisk
Move from Section 2
New and changed links
---------------------
getcontext.2
Michael Kerrisk
Make link to page moved into Section 3
getdtablesize.2
Michael Kerrisk
Link to renamed getdtablesize.3
setcontext.2
Michael Kerrisk
Modify link to point to Section 3
pthread_getname_np.3
Michael Kerrisk
New link to new pthread_setname_np.3
setcontext.3
Michael Kerrisk
Link to getcontext page renamed into Section 3
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add fallocate(1)
flock.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add flock(1)
fork.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add exit(2)
getpriority.2
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: note that nice value is per-thread on Linux
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add prlimit(1)
gettid.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add various system calls that use thread IDs
ioprio_set.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add ionice(1)
sched_setaffinity.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add taskset(1)
sched_setparam.2
Michael Kerrisk
Scheduling policy and parameters are per-thread on Linux
Direct the reader to the discussion in sched_setscheduler(2).
sched_setscheduler.2
Michael Kerrisk
Scheduling policy and parameters are per-thread on Linux
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add chrt(1)
setsid.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add setsid(1)
shmop.2
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
ERRORS: Add EIDRM
Taken from Red Hat downstream patch
sigaction.2
makecontext.3
Michael Kerrisk
Change getcontext/setcontext page ref to Section 3
signal.2
Michael Kerrisk [Reuben Thomas]
Clarify System V vs BSD semantics for signal()
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
The list on this page is not just syscalls common to all platforms
Michael Kerrisk
Add perfctr(2)
Add ppc_rtas(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel version number of utrap_install(2)
unimplemented.2
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
Remove mention of kernel version number in DESCRIPTION
inet.3
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
Fix error in EXAMPLE using inet_aton()
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=837090
Patch taken from Red Hat downstream.
posix_fallocate.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add fallocate(1)
regex.3
Reuben Thomas
Clarify details of matching
The first is that it's far from clear that the end points of the
complete string match are stored in the zero'th element of the
regmatch_t array; secondly, the phrase "next largest substring
match" is positively misleading, implying some sort of size
ordering, whereas in fact they are ordered according to their
appearance in the regex pattern.
scanf.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify meaning of "string conversions" for 'm' modifier
Mike Frysinger
Update %a vs %m documentation
POSIX.1-2008 adopted the 'm' flag for dynamic allocation. Update
page to cover it and relegate the glibc-specific 'a' flag to
NOTES.
strtol.3
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
Replace some bogus text about "thousands separator"
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652870
sysconf.3
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
Use "_SC_PAGESIZE" consistently on page
s/_SC_PAGE_SIZE/_SC_PAGESIZE/ in one instance.
From Red Hat downstream patch.
nscd.conf.5
Peter Schiffer
Add max-db-size and auto-propagate descriptions, default values, + misc
* added missing valid services (services and netgroup)
* added many default values for options
* reordered options according to the nscd.conf file
(logical order)
* added 2 missing options: max-db-size and auto-propagate
nsswitch.conf.5
Peter Schiffer
Mention initgroups db
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/profile
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
Update /proc/sys/fs/file-nr to include Linux 2.6 details
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify relationship between file-max and file-nr
The third value in /proc/sys/fs/file-nr is the same as
the value in /proc/sys/fs/file-max.
Michael Kerrisk
Note message written to kernel log when file-max limit is hit
Info from Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt.
Michael Kerrisk
Mention lscpu(1) under discussion of /proc/cpuinfo
resolv.conf.5
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
Document "single-request-reopen" option
Taken from Red Hat downstream patch
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717770
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/3161
utmp.5
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add utmpdump(1)
cpuset.7
Simon Paillard
Add missing 'cpuset.' prefix for some flags
See kernel commit e21a05cb408bb9f244f11a0813d4b355dad0822e
svipc.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add ipcmk(1), ipcrm(1), ipcs(1)
termio.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add reset(1), setterm(1), stty(1), tty(4)
ld.so.8
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
LD_VERBOSE does not work with ld.so --list and --verify
From Red Hat downstream patch
See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532629
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add sln(8)
zdump.8
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
Bring up to date with zdump --help
Patch taken from Red Hat downstream.
==================== 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@openvz.org>
Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
D. Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com>
Graham Gower <graham.gower@gmail.com>
Ivana Varekova <varekova@redhat.com>
Kai Kunschke <kai@kunfoo.org>
Marcela Maslanova <mmaslano@redhat.com>
Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>
Marshel Abraham <Marshel.Abraham@in.bosch.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Nathan Stratton Treadway <kernelbugs@nathanst.com>
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
Simon Heimberg <simohe@besonet.ch>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
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.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.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.49 ====================
Released: 2013-03-10, 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:
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Global changes
--------------
The goal of the changes below to consistently format copyright
and license information in the comments in the page source
at the top of each page. This allows for easy scripting to
extract that information. Following these changes the comments
the top of the page source should now consistently have the form:
.\" <copyright info, possibly spread over several lines>
.\"
.\" %%%LICENSE_START(<license-type>)
.\" <license text>
.\" %%%LICENSE_END
.\" <other comments>
Note that the 'license-type' is merely descriptive. Its purpose is
to simplify scripting for the purpose of gathering statistics on
types of licenses used in man-pages. It is NOT a statement about
the actual licensing of the page; that license is contain INSIDE the
LICENSE_START...LICENSE_END clause.
All pages
Michael Kerrisk
Add a LICENSE_START()...LICENSE_END clause in source at
top of each page that encapsulates the license text.
Michael Kerrisk
Put copyright info at top of page, followed by blank line and LICENSE
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Update info in source comments on where to get a copy of the GPL
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Remove "Hey Emacs" comment in page source
Only certain pages have this; there is no consistency, so
remove it from all pages
Michael Kerrisk
Remove "-*- nroff -*-" comment at top of source
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.50 ====================
Released: 2013-03-15, 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@openvz.org>
Bernhard Kuemel <bernhard@bksys.at>
Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
Erik Saule <erik.saule@bmi.osu.edu>
Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org>
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Jose Luis Domingo Lopez <debian@24x7linux.com>
Mark R Bannister <mark@proseconsulting.co.uk>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
canonicalize_file_name.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite page, adding much more detail
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/END_LICENSE/LICENSE_END/
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/bitmask/bit mask/
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
getent.1
Mark R Bannister
netgroup description incorrectly refers to initgroups
capget.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update URL for libcap
fork.2
Michael Kerrisk
Port access permission bits (ioperm()) are turned off in the child
futex.2
Michael Kerrisk
'timeout' is a minimum duration that the call will wait, not a maximum
ioperm.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that iopl() level of 3 is needed to access ports
Michael Kerrisk
'num' is *bits* not bytes!
Michael Kerrisk
Linux 2.6.8 lifted the port limit to 65,536
See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/202624/
From: Stas Sergeev <stsp <at> aknet.ru>
Subject: [patch][rfc] Larger IO bitmap
Date: 2004-05-07 19:55:03 GMT
Michael Kerrisk
ioperm() operates on the calling *thread* (not process)
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify meaning of 'turn_on' argument
Plus form formatting fixes.
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that default state of permission bits in child is off
Michael Kerrisk
NOTES: add mention of /proc/ioports
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add outb(2)
iopl.2
Michael Kerrisk
CAP_SYS_RAWIO is required to *raise* the I/O privilege level
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that the two least significant bits of 'level' are what matter
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add outb(2)
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add version information for all (other) syscalls
Michael Kerrisk
Add perfmonctl(2)
futimes.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jonathan Nieder]
ERRORS: Add ENOSYS for lutimes()
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620746
getpass.3
Michael Kerrisk [Erik Saule]
Suggest use of the ECHO flag as an alternative
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644261
realpath.3
Michael Kerrisk
Document GNU extensions for EACCES and ENOENT errors
stdarg.3
Michael Kerrisk [Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs]
Describe va_copy()
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=575077
termios.3
Michael Kerrisk [Bernhard Kuemel]
Mention that noncanonical mode does not do input processing
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=643854
random.4
Elie De Brauwer
Document write and document the ioctl interface of /dev/random
The update consists out of two parts:
- a minor thing which just documents what happens if a write to
/dev/(u)random is performed, which is used in the example
script but not explicitly mentioned.
- the other (biggest) part is the documentation of the ioctl()
interface which /dev/(u)random exposes. This ioctl() lives in
drivers/char/random.c and the primitives can be found in
include/linux/random.h
One comment remains, there used to be an RNDGETPOOL ioctl() which
disappeared in v2.6.9. I found two patches on the net:
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8.1/2.6.8.1-mm4/broken-out/dev-random-remove-rndgetpool-ioctl.patch
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/3/25/168
But as far as I can tell the first one got applied but the 2nd
one seems more correct. The result is that even today one can
still find traces of the RNDGETPOOL ioctl() in the header files.
Is this there for historical reasons or because it might break
userspace, even though using it will just give an EINVAL.
bootparam.7
Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
Document 'rootfstype' option
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=182014
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add various pieces under CAP_SYS_RAWIO
Info obtained by grepping the kernel source.
Michael Kerrisk
Add CAP_SYS_RESOURCE /proc/PID/oom_score_adj case
netlink.7
Andrey Vagin
Add a note about broadcast messages to multiple groups
socket.7
Michael Kerrisk [Florian Weimer]
Define _GNU_SOURCE to obtain the definition of 'struct ucred'
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=572210
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.51 ====================
Released: 2013-04-17, 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:
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net>
Brian M. Carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Changhee Han <ch0.han@lge.com>
Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Damien Grassart <damien@grassart.com>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Denis Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Krzysztof Konopko <krzysztof.konopko@gmail.com>
Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nicolas Hillegeer <nicolas@hillegeer.com>
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
Radek Pazdera <rpazdera@redhat.com>
Ralph Loader <suckfish@ihug.co.nz>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
sched_rr_get_interval.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms
proc.5
Pavel Emelyanov
Document /proc/[pid]/map_files directory
This directory was added in Linux v3.3 and provides info about
files being mmap-ed in a way very similar to how /proc/[pid]/fd
works.
v2: Added examples of how links look like and noted dependency
on kernel config option CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/kernel/shm_rmid_forced
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: fix placement of word "only"
Various pages
Simon Paillard
License headers: consistent format
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/since kernel/since Linux/
Various System V IPC pages in Section 2
Michael Kerrisk
Add "System V" to .TH line and text
Make it clear that these pages relate to System V IPC,
not POSIX IPC.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
Michael Kerrisk [The Wanderer]
Clarify RETURN VALUE for F_OK
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=705293
alarm.2
Michael Kerrisk
Correct the description of behavior when 'seconds' is 0
clone.2
Michael Kerrisk [Peter Schiffer]
Add prototype for syscall to SYNOPSIS
And further clarify the distinction between the system call
and the wrapper function in the introductory text.
Michael Kerrisk
Update feature test macro requirements
The requirements quietly changed changed in glibc 2.14
See also http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4749
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
Clarify differences between clone2() syscall and wrapper function
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
Note those architectures where the sys_clone argument order differs
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
Add short subsection noting that blackfin, m68k, and sparc are different
Michael Kerrisk
Move clone2() text to subsection in description
The description of ia64 clone2() should follow the discussion
of the raw system call interface.
Michael Kerrisk
Change subhead for ia64 discussion
getcpu.2
Michael Kerrisk
Recommend that 'tcache' should be specified as NULL nowadays
io_cancel.2
Jeff Moyer, Michael Kerrisk [Cyril Hrubis]
Improve description
io_destroy.2
Jeff Moyer
Improve description
The description was rather vague, citing a "list of I/O contexts"
and stating that it "can" cancel outstanding requests. This
update makes things more concrete so that the reader knows exactly
what's going on.
io_getevents.2
Jeff Moyer
The 'timeout' argument is not updated
I looked back through the kernel code, and the timeout was
never updated in any case. I've submitted a patch upstream
to change the comment above io_getevents.
io_setup.2
Jeff Moyer
Clarify nr_events
nr_events is technically the number of completion events that can
be stored in the completion ring. The wording of the man page:
"capable of receiving at least nr_events" seems dubious to me,
only because I worry that folks might interpret that to mean
'nr_events' total, instead of 'nr_events' concurrently.
Further, I've added information on where to find the per-user
limit on 'nr_events', /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr. Let me know if
you think that is not relevant.
listxattr.2
Michael Kerrisk
Explain use of 'size' argument
lseek.2
Michael Kerrisk [Andreas Jaeger]
_GNU_SOURCE must be defined to get SEEK_DATE and SEEK_HOLE definitions
See http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15312
mmap.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add pointers to relevant /proc files described in proc(5)
posix_fadvise.2
pread.2
readahead.2
sync_file_range.2
truncate.2
Michael Kerrisk
Refer to syscall(2) for ABI semantics on certain 32-bit architectures
Also: in sync_file_range.2 and posix_fadvise.2 remove description
of conventional calling signature as flawed, and in
posix_fadvise.2, de-emphasize focus on ARM, and rather phrase
as a more general discussion of certain architectures.
readdir.2
Michael Kerrisk
readdir(2) doesn't exist on x86-64
semop.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify the discussion of 'semadj'
shmctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Refer to proc(5) for description of /proc/sys/kernel/shm_rmid_forced
syscall.2
Changhee Han
Add notes that caution users when passing arguments to syscall()
For example, passing 'long long' on ARM-32 requires special
treatment.
Mike Frysinger [Michael Kerrisk]
Document the exact calling convention for architecture system calls
Mike Frysinger [Kyle McMartin]
Add PA-RISC details under calling conventions
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
Refine discussion of ARM and other ABIs
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update kernel version number at start of list
umask.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add acl(5)
unshare.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update feature test macro requirements
The requirements quietly changed changed in glibc 2.14
See also http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4749
fopencookie.3
Michael Kerrisk [Ralph Loader]
Correct definition of cookie_io_functions_t
pthread_setname_np.3
Andrew Clayton
The thread argument is passed in by value
readir.3
seekdir.3
telldir.3
Michael Kerrisk
Eliminate the implication that these functions deal with "offsets"
The directory position dealt with by the readdir() and
friends is not a simple file offset in modern file systems.
Typically, it is some kind of cookie value. Add text and
make other changes to these pages to eliminate the
implication that this is an offset, and warn the reader
that directory positions should be treated strictly as
opaque values.
In the process, rename the 'offset' argument of seekdir(3)
to 'loc', and add some text to readdir(3) to note that
the 'd_off' field is the same value returned by telldir(3)
at the current directory position.
See also https://lwn.net/Articles/544298/
scalb.3
Mark H Weaver
Fix prototypes for scalbf() and scalbl()
sched_getcpu.3
Michael Kerrisk
Update feature test macro requirements
The requirements quietly changed changed in glibc 2.14
See also http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4749
ualarm.3
Michael Kerrisk [Nicolas Hillegeer]
Add note on the behavior when 'usecs' is zero
POSIX.1-2001 does not specify the behavior in this case
and no other system that I checked documented the behavior.
Probably, most or all systems do what Linux does in this
case: cancel any pending alarm, just as alarm(0) does.
Add that info in NOTES.
elf.5
Mike Frysinger
Add byte positions for all EI_xxx fields
When describing e_ident, most of the EI_xxx defines mention the
exact byte number. This is useful when manually hacking an ELF
with a hex editor. However, the last few fields don't do this,
which means you have to count things up yourself.
Add a single word to each so you don't have to do that.
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Refer to sched_rr_get_interval(2) for info on sched_rr_timeslice_ms
Since Linux 3.9, /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rr_timeslice_ms can
be used to change the SCHED_RR quantum.
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add sysctl(8)
Krzysztof Konopko
Simplify the example of printing out environ
The binutils package contains a very handy utility to
print out null-byte delimited strings from a file. This
can replace a rather complex expression with cat(1)
provided as an example for printing out /proc/[pid]/environ.
Michael Kerrisk
Update /proc/PID/maps example
Update to 64-bit example that includes "[heap]", "[stack],
and "[vdso]"
Michael Kerrisk
Formatting fixes for /proc/PID/maps
Mike Frysinger
Document the "pathname" field of /proc/PID/maps
Michael Kerrisk
Add reference to capabilities(7) for /proc/sys/kernel/cap_last_cap
Michael Kerrisk
/proc/PID/maps: add a reference to mmap(2)
ip.7
Radek Pazdera
Document IP_MULTICAST_ALL
This commit adds documentation for the IP_MULTICAST_ALL socket
option.
The option was added to the Linux kernel in 2.6.31:
Author Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
Commit f771bef98004d9d141b085d987a77d06669d4f4f
The description is based on a previous one [3] posted by the
original author of the code -- Nivedita, but it is slightly
re-worded.
I tested it myself and it works as described.
References:
[1] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c#L972
[2] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/net/ipv4/igmp.c#L2267
[3] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/28902/
units.7
Brian M. Carlson
units should use an actual µ
The units(7) man page uses an ASCII u in place of the actual Greek
letter mu. Since we're in the twenty-first century, with
UTF-8-compatible terminals and terminal emulators, we should use
the actual letter µ instead of an ASCII approximation.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=704787
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.52 ====================
Released: 2013-07-04, Christchurch
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@kernel.org>
Andrea Remondini <andrea@undeadlinks.com>
Anthony Foiani <anthony.foiani@gmail.com>
Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Georg Sauthoff <mail@georg.so>
Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>
Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Manuel Traut <manut@linutronix.de>
ÐаÑк ÐоÑенбеÑг <socketpair@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Peter LaDow <petela@gocougs.wsu.edu>
Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
Regid <regid23@nt1.in>
Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>
Simone Piccardi <piccardi@truelite.it>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver
Add PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP documentation
The perf_event_open() ENABLE/DISABLE/RESET ioctls can take an
argument, PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP. This wasn't documented at all
until about a year ago (despite the support being there from
the beginning) so I missed this when initially writing
the man page.
socket.7
Pavel Emelyanov, Michael Kerrisk
Document SO_PEEK_OFF option
Since Linux 3.4 there appeared an ability to specify the
offset in bytes from which the data will be MSG_PEEK-ed.
Describe this socket option in the socket(7) page, where
all the other socket options are described.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Convert inline formatting (\fX...\fP) to dot-directive formatting
readdir.2
asprintf.
getline.3
getlogin.3
pthread_setname_np.3
readdir.3
strerror.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Clarify that terminating null byte is '\0'
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
execve.2
Peter LaDow
Add envp to the Linux notes about NULL pointers
During the review of static analysis results, we discovered a
functional, but non-portable, use of execve(). For example:
char *cmd[] = { "/path/to/some/file", NULL };
execve(cmd[0], cmd, NULL);
The call succeeds. Yet, the static analysis tool (rightly)
pointed out that envp could be dereferenced. But digging into
glibc and the kernel, it appears that like argv, envp when NULL
is treated as if it were an empty list.
So, to clear things up, I'm submitting this patch to update the
man page to indicate that envp is treated like argv.
fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
io_setup.2
Cyril Hrubis [Jeff Moyer]
Clarify the nr_events parameter
Currently the io_setup.2 man page describes what the kernel really
does, i.e., that the resulting context may be able to hold more
than the 'nr_event's operations because the memory allocated in
kernel is rounded to be multiple of page size.
It is better not to expose this implementation detail and
simply state that the resulting context is suitable for
'nr_events' operations.
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver
Clarify the perf_event_open() wakeup_events/wakeup_watermark fields
Clarify the perf_event_open() wakeup_events/wakeup_watermark
fields a bit, based on info from kernel commit cfeb1d90a1b1.
Vince Weaver
Update to match the Linux 3.10 release
This patch updates the perf_event_open() documentation to include
new interfaces added in the 3.10 kernel.
It also documents a few [To be documented] instances left over
from the 3.7 kernel.
Vince Weaver
Small correction to description of 'flags' argument
prctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note equivalents of PR_SET_NAME
pthread_setname_np() and pthread_getname_np() and
/proc/self/task/TID/comm provide access to the same
attribute.
pread.2
Michael Kerrisk [ÐаÑк ÐоÑенбеÑг]
pread() and pwrite() are especially useful in multithreaded applications
recv.2
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
semctl.2
Michael Kerrisk [Simone Piccardi]
'sem_nsems' is 'unsigned long' since Linux 2.4
shmget.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite RETURN VALUE and mention that 'errno' is set on error
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk [Brian Norris]
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
signal.2
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
sigpending.2
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
sigprocmask.2
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
sigsuspend.2
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
syscall.2
Mike Frysinger
Document s390/s390x calling convention
a64l.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
The function l64a() is not thread safe.
abs.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions abs(), labs(), llabs() and imaxabs() are
thread-safe.
aio_error.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function aio_error() is thread safe.
aio_return.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function aio_return() is thread safe.
alloca.3
Adrian Bunk
Correct information on getting non-inlined version with gcc+glibc
- remove the incorrect information that -fno-builtin would help
- add -std=c11 to the list of strict options
- emphasize more that both the gcc option and not including
alloca.h are needed
- add the #ifdef from the glibc alloca.h to make the situation
clearer
bindresvport.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
Before glibc 2.17, bindresvport() is not thread-safe.
Since glibc 2.17, it is thread-safe, the patch can refer to URL:
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=f6da27e53695ad1cc0e2a9490358decbbfdff5e5
canonicalize_file_name.3
Michael Kerrisk
Put CONFORMING TO section in right location
catgets.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Clarify that null byte is '\0'
ceil.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions ceil(), ceilf() and ceill() are thread safe.
cimag.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions cimag(), cimagf() and cimagl() are thread safe.
clock_getcpuclockid.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function clock_getcpuclockid() is thread safe.
conj.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions conj(), conjf() and conjl() are thread safe.
crypt.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
The function crypt() is not thread safe.
ctermid.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function ctermid() is thread safe with exceptions.
dirfd.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
drand48.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
The functions drand48(), erand48(), lrand48(), nrand48(),
mrand48(), jrand48(), srand48(), seed48() and lcong48() are
not thread safe.
ecvt.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
The functions ecvt() and fcvt() return a string located in a
static buffer which is overwritten by the next call to the
functions, so they are not thread-safe.
encrypt.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
The functions encrypt() and setkey() are not thread safe.
ether_aton.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
The functions ether_aton() and ether_ntoa() are not thread safe.
fcloseall.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
The function fcloseall() is not thread safe.
ferror.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions ferror(), clearerr(), feof() and fileno() are
thread safe.
fgetgrent.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
fgetpwent.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
fgetwc.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
fmtmsg.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
Before glibc 2.16, fmtmsg() is not thread-safe.
Since glibc 2.16, it is thread-safe, the patch can refer to URL:
http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=7724defcf8873116fe4efab256596861eef21a94
fputwc.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
getdate.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are and aren't thread-safe
getgrent.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
The function getgrent() is not thread safe.
getgrnam.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are and aren't thread-safe
getline.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
getlogin.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
The function getlogin() is not thread safe.
The function cuserid() is thread-safe with exceptions.
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
getpass.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
getpwent.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
The function getpwent() is not thread safe.
getpwnam.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are and aren't thread-safe
getspnam.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
getttyent.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
getusershell.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
The functions getusershell(), setusershell() and endusershell()
are not thread safe.
getutent.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
hsearch.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
hsearch.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
The functions hsearch(), hcreate() and hdestroy() are not
thread-safe.
localeconv.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
The function localeconv() returns a pointer to a structure which
might be overwritten by subsequent calls to localeconv() or by
calls to setlocale(), so it is not thread-safe.
Peng Haitao
Add RETURN VALUE section
malloc_info.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
mblen.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
The function mblen() is not thread safe.
mbrlen.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function mbrlen() is thread safe with exceptions.
mbrtowc.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function mbrtowc() is thread safe with exceptions.
mktemp.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
modf.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions modf(), modff() and modfl() are thread safe.
popen.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
pthread_attr_setinheritsched.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note the scheduling attributes affected by this function
pthread_attr_setschedparam.3
pthread_attr_setschedpolicy.3
pthread_attr_setscope.3
Michael Kerrisk [Manuel Traut, Siddhesh Poyarekar]
The inherit-scheduler attribute must be set to PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED
In order for the attributes set by these functions to have
an effect, the caller must use pthread_attr_setinheritsched(3)
to set the inherit-scheduler attribute of the attributes object
to PTHREAD_EXPLICIT_SCHED.
ptsname.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
The function ptsname() is not thread safe.
putenv.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
putpwent.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
qecvt.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
The functions qecvt() and qfcvt() are not thread-safe.
random.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
Michael Kerrisk
Add EINVAL error for setstate()
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: inistate() does not return NULL on error
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15380
random_r.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
readdir.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
The data returned by readdir() may be overwritten by subsequent
calls to readdir() for the same directory stream, so it is not
thread-safe.
re_comp.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
The functions re_comp() and re_exec() are not thread safe.
rexec.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
The functions rexec() and rexec_af() are not thread safe.
round.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions round(), roundf() and roundl() are thread safe.
scalbln.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions scalbn(), scalbnf(), scalbnl(), scalbln(),
scalblnf() and scalblnl() are thread safe.
scandir.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
siginterrupt.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
signbit.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note macro that is thread-safe
The macro signbit() is thread safe.
sigsetops.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
stdio_ext.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
The functions __fbufsize(), __fpending(), __fpurge() and
__fsetlocking() are not thread safe.
strdup.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
strerror.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
The function strerror() is not thread safe.
strftime.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify details of return value
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: 'errno' is not set if the result string would exceed 'max' bytes
strtok.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
The function strtok() is not thread safe.
Michael Kerrisk [Georg Sauthoff]
Add more detail on the operation of strtok()
Add a number of missing details on the operation of strtok()
tempnam.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
timegm.3
Jérémie Galarneau
copy the string returned by getenv()
The example of a portable version of timegm() uses the string
returned by getenv() after calling setenv() on the same
environment variable. The tz string may be invalid as per
getenv.3:
"The string pointed to by the return value of getenv()
may be statically allocated, and can be modified by a
subsequent call to getenv(), putenv(3), setenv(3), or
unsetenv(3)."
tmpnam.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function tmpnam() is thread safe with exceptions.
trunc.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions trunc(), truncf() and truncl() are thread safe.
ttyname.3
Michael Kerrisk
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are and aren't thread-safe
ttyslot.3
Michael Kerrisk
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are not thread-safe
usleep.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
wcsdup.3
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: mention that 'errno' is set on error
core.5
Michael Kerrisk
Implicitly adding the PID to a core filename was dropped in 2.6.27
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/[pid]/fd/ anon_inode symlinks
Mike Frysinger
Document /proc/[pid]/fd/ symlinks a bit more
Describe the type:[inode] syntax used in this dir
bootparam.7
Michael Kerrisk [Dan Jacobson]
Remove outdated text on LILO and LoadLin
Strike the discussion of LILO and LoadLin, which
are long obsolete, and make a brief mention of GRUB.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=604019
Regid
Remove mention of the deprecated rdev(8)
The deprecated rdev(8) command was removed from util-linux in 2010.
See https://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux/util-linux.git;a=commit;h=a3e40c14651fccf18e7954f081e601389baefe3fO
Andrea Remondini
Document the 'resume' boot parameter
inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Clarify that null byte is '\0'
iso_8859-2.7
Eric S. Raymond
Remove incorrect reference to nonexistent groff glyph \[shc]
The reference incorrectly attempted to duplicate an
actual soft hyphen (hex 0xad) just before it in the file.
man-pages.7
Peng Haitao
Add description of "ATTRIBUTES"
"ATTRIBUTES" section can mention thread safety,
cancellation safety, and async-cancel-safety.
socket.7
Michael Kerrisk
Note that 'optval' for socket options is an 'int' in most cases
tcp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Note that 'optval' for socket options is an 'int' in most cases
udp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Note that 'optval' for socket options is an 'int' in most cases
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.53 ====================
Released: 2013-07-31, 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:
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.de>
Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz>
Chuck Coffing <clc@alum.mit.edu>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org>
Felix_Schulte@McAfee.com
graud@gmx.com
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
restart_syscall.2
Michael Kerrisk
New page for restart_syscall(2) system call
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
fchownat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document AT_EMPTY_PATH
fstatat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document AT_EMPTY_PATH
linkat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document AT_EMPTY_PATH
open.2
Michael Kerrisk [Al Viro]
Document O_PATH
See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885740
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clock_nanosleep.2
futex.2
nanosleep.2
poll.2
sigaction.2
sigreturn.2
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add restart_syscall(2)
open.2
Michael Kerrisk [Geoffrey Thomas]
Remove warning that O_DIRECTORY is only for use with opendir(3)
O_DIRECTORY can also be used with, for example, O_PATH.
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver
Improve PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK documentation
Vince Weaver
Fix indentation of the MMAP layout section
The indentation of the MMAP layout section wasn't quite right.
I think this improves things but I admit I'm not an expert at the
low-level indentation directives.
Vince Weaver
Update PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP info
It turns out PERF_IOC_FLAG_GROUP was broken from 75f937f24bd9
(in Linux 2.6.31, the initial perf_event release) until
724b6daa1 (Linux 3.4).
I've done some extensive kernel source code digging plus
running tests of various kernels and I hope the info
presented is accurate now.
(Patch edited somewhat by mtk.)
Vince Weaver
Improve sysfs files documentation
This improves the documentation of the various
perf_event_open()-related sysfs files.
ptrace.2
Denys Vlasenko [Oleg Nesterov, Dmitry V. Levin]
If SEIZE was used, initial auto-attach stop is EVENT_STOP
For every PTRACE_O_TRACEfoo option, mention that old-style SIGSTOP
is replaced by PTRACE_EVENT_STOP if PTRACE_SEIZE attach was used.
Mention the same thing again in the description of
PTRACE_EVENT_STOP.
Denys Vlasenko [Oleg Nesterov, Dmitry V. Levin]
Mention that PTRACE_PEEK* libc API and kernel API are different
Denys Vlasenko [Oleg Nesterov, Dmitry V. Levin]
Clarify PTRACE_INTERRUPT, PTRACE_LISTEN, and group-stop behavior
readlink.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document use of empty 'pathname' argument
Michael Kerrisk
Change error check in example program from "< 0" to "== -1"
Chuck Coffing
Fix possible race condition in readlink.2 example
I noticed that the example in the readlink.2 man pages does error
checking for a race condition that would cause the value of the
symbolic link to get larger. However, it doesn't handle the
opposite case, in which the value gets shorter. (The NULL
terminator is always set at the old, longer offset.) This could
cause the program to operate on uninitialized data.
setpgid.2
Michael Kerrisk [graud@gmx.com]
s/SIGTSTP/SIGTTIN/ when discussing reads from terminal
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60504
clog2.3
Michael Kerrisk
Note that these functions are still not present in glibc 2.17
dirfd.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function dirfd() is thread safe.
div.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions div(), ldiv(), lldiv() and imaxdiv() are thread
safe.
fabs.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions fabs(), fabsf() and fabsl() are thread safe.
fdim.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions fdim(), fdimf() and fdiml() are thread safe.
fflush.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function fflush() is thread safe.
finite.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions finite(), finitef(), finitel(), isinf(), isinff(),
isinfl(), isnan(), isnanf() and isnanl() are thread safe.
flockfile.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions flockfile(), ftrylockfile() and funlockfile() are
thread safe.
floor.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions floor(), floorf() and floorl() are thread safe.
resolv.conf.5
Simon Paillard
Explain how to set empty domain
See http://bugs.debian.org/463575
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add open_by_handle_at(2) under CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH
inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk [Felix_Schulte@McAfee.com]
Clarify description of IN_MOVED_FROM and IN_MOVED_TO
man-pages.7
Michael Kerrisk
DESCRIPTION should note versions for new interface features or behavior
udp.7
Benjamin Poirier
Add missing #include directive
Using the UDP_CORK socket option documented in udp.7 requires
including <netinet/udp.h>.
ld.so.8
Michael Kerrisk
Rework rpath token expansion text
Michael Kerrisk
Describe $PLATFORM rpath token
Michael Kerrisk
Describe $LIB rpath token
Michael Kerrisk
Document LD_BIND_NOT
Michael Kerrisk [Simon Paillard]
Add reference to pthreads(7) in discussion of LD_ASSUME_KERNEL
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.54 ====================
Released: 2013-09-17, 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:
A. Costa <agcosta@gis.net>
Akihiro MOTOKI <amotoki@gmail.com>
Andreas Wiese <aw-lkml@instandbesetzt.net>
Andrew Hunter <andrewhhunter@gmail.com>
Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Christopher Hall <chall0@gmail.com>
Christos Tsopokis <christos@tsopokis.gr>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
D. Barbier <bouzim@gmail.com>
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
Eugen Dedu <Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr>
Felix Janda <felix.janda@posteo.de>
G.raud <graud@gmx.com>
Hannes Landeholm <hannes@jumpstarter.io>
J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Johan Erlandsson <jeoerl@gmail.com>
Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Magnus Reftel <magnus.reftel@gmail.com>
Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
Robert Harris <robert.harris@fixnetix.com>
Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Stas <stas.grumbler@gmail.com>
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
Zdenek Pavlas <zpavlas@redhat.com>
Zsbán Ambrus <ambrus@math.bme.hu>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
ioctl_list.2
Zsbán Ambrus
Document FAT_IOCTL_GET_ATTRIBUTES
The attached patch adds four ioctls from linux/msdos_fs.h to the
ioctl_list(2) manpage.
The ioctl FAT_IOCTL_GET_ATTRIBUTES reads FAT attributes of a
file a mounted vfat file system. I tested this on Linux
2.6.33, an example script can be found at
http://www.perlmonks.com/?node_id=832623
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix: s/file system/filesystem/
Notwithstanding 24d01c530c5a3f75217543d02bf6712395e5f90c,
"filesystem" is the form used by the great majority of man pages
outside the man-pages project and in a number of other sources,
so let's go with that.
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
access.2
J. Bruce Fields
Fix outdated NFS information
Note that NFS versions since version 3 support an "access" call
so that the client doesn't have to guess permissions or ID
mapping on its own.
(See RFC 1813 sections 1.7 and 3.3.4.)
adjtimex.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add adjtimex(8)
clock_getres.2
Michael Kerrisk [Rodrigo Campos]
Note circumstances in which "SMP" note applies.
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel version for CLOCK_*_CPUTIME_ID
CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID and CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID
appeared in 2.6.12.
Michael Kerrisk
Add VERSIONS section
futex.2
Michael Kerrisk
The 'timeout' can be rounded upwards by clock granularity and also overrun
kill.2
Michael Kerrisk
Small improvements to text on historical rules for permissions
nfsservctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note commands that were only in Linux 2.4.x and earlier
open.2
Robert Harris
Add mmap(2) to list of calls that fail when given an O_PATH descriptor
Doug Goldstein
Add EINVAL to errors list
EINVAL can be returned by open(2) when the underlying filesystem
doesn't support O_DIRECT. It is documented in the NOTES section
but this patch adds it to the list of possible errors.
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK updates
This started out as just adding the new perf_event_open features
from Linux 3.11 (which was the addition of transactional memory
defines for PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK samples) but turned into a
general cleanup of the PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_STACK documentation.
The main clarification is that at least one of the non-privilege
values must be set or else perf_event_open() will return an EINVAL
error.
Michael Kerrisk
Reorder text describing fields of 'perf_event_header' structure
Place the fields with the shorter descriptions first, to make the
information easier to read.
poll.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify wording of 'timeout' as a "minimum" interval
sched_setaffinity.2
Michael Kerrisk [Christos Tsopokis]
Clarify that these system calls affect a per-thread attribute
sched_setparam.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that this system call applies to threads (not processes)
sched_setscheduler.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that this system call applies to threads (not processes)
select.2
Michael Kerrisk [G.raud]
Clarify wording of 'timeout' as a "minimum" interval
setfsgid.2
Michael Kerrisk [Oleg Nesterov]
Clarify description of return value
More clearly describe the weirdness in the return value of this
system call, and note the problems it creates in BUGS
Michael Kerrisk
Correct header file in SYNOPSIS
Michael Kerrisk
Refer to setfsuid(2) for an explanation of why setfsgid() is obsolete
Michael Kerrisk
Wording improvements
setfsuid.2
Michael Kerrisk [Oleg Nesterov]
Clarify description of return value
More clearly describe the weirdness in the return value of this
system call, and note the problems it creates in BUGS
Michael Kerrisk [Chen Gang]
Clarify historical details and note that setfsuid() is obsolete
Michael Kerrisk
Wording improvements
Michael Kerrisk
Correct header file in SYNOPSIS
sigwaitinfo.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify wording of 'timeout' as a "minimum" interval
syscall.2
Johan Erlandsson
Add missing argument in example
Johan Erlandsson
Correct registers for arm/EABI
Registers was off by one.
Reference:
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=3105/4
See also:
http://peterdn.com/post/e28098Hello-World!e28099-in-ARM-assembly.aspx
https://wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiPort
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calling_convention#ARM
wait.2
Michael Kerrisk [Hannes Landeholm]
Add details on the fifth argument provided by raw waitid() system call
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60744
clock.3
Michael Kerrisk
clock() switched from using times(2) to clock_gettime() in glibc 2.18
drand48_r.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions drand48_r(), erand48_r(), lrand48_r(),
nrand48_r(), mrand48_r(), jrand48_r(), srand48_r(), seed48_r(),
and lcong48_r() are thread safe.
fma.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions fma(), fmaf() and fmal() are thread safe.
fmax.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions fmax(), fmaxf() and fmaxl() are thread safe.
fmin.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions fmin(), fminf() and fminl() are thread safe.
fpclassify.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions fpclassify(), isfinite(), isnormal(), isnan(), and
isinf() are thread safe.
frexp.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions frexp(), frexpf() and frexpl() are thread safe.
gethostbyname.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
gai_strerror() is the modern replacement for herror() and hstrerror()
Michael Kerrisk
Update feature test macro requirements for herror() and hstrerror()
Michael Kerrisk
Add feature test macro requirements for h_errno
ilogb.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions ilogb(), ilogbf() and ilogbl() are thread safe.
ldexp.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions ldexp(), ldexpf() and ldexpl() are thread safe.
lrint.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions lrint(), lrintf(), lrintl(), llrint(), llrintf(),
and llrintl() are thread safe.
lround.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions lround(), lroundf(), lroundl(), llround(),
llroundf() and llroundl() are thread safe.
lseek64.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function lseek64() is thread safe.
mbsinit.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function mbsinit() is thread safe.
nextafter.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions nextafter(), nextafterf(), nextafterl(),
nexttoward(), nexttowardf() and nexttowardl() are thread safe.
posix_memalign.3
Michael Kerrisk [Will Newton]
'errno" is indeterminate after a call to posix_memalign()
Michael Kerrisk [Will Newton]
Clarify wording on "return value" when size==0
printf.3
Christopher Hall
Correctly describe the meaning of a negative precision
The printf(3) manpage says that a negative precision is taken to
be zero, whereas printf(3p) says that a negative precision is
taken as if the precision were omitted. glibc agrees with the
latter (POSIX) specification.
Test code:
printf("%f\n",42.0); // "42.000000"
printf("%.*f\n",0,42.0); // "42"
printf("%.*f\n",-1,42.0); // "42.000000"
This patch corrects the explanation to match what actually happens.
rewinddir.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function rewinddir() is thread safe.
rint.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions nearbyint(), nearbyintf(), nearbyintl(), rint(),
rintf() and rintl() are thread safe.
seekdir.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function seekdir() is thread safe.
telldir.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function telldir() is thread safe.
wctomb.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is not thread-safe
The function wctomb() is not thread safe.
wavelan.4
Michael Kerrisk [Elie De Brauwer]
This driver disappeared in 2.56.35
dir_colors.5
Michael Kerrisk [Stas]
Add various synonyms
See http://bugs.debian.org/553477
Simon Paillard [Stas]
Add keywords SUID, SGID, STICKY, STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE, OTHER_WRITABLE
See http://bugs.debian.org/553477
See ls.c and dircolors.c in coreutils
proc.5
Peter Schiffer
Document /proc/[pid]/io file
Attempt to document fields in the /proc/[pid]/io file, based on
the Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. The text will probably
need some grammar corrections.
Michael Kerrisk [Marko Myllynen]
/proc/sys/fs/inode-max went away in Linux 2.4
Also, the 'preshrink' field in /proc/sys/fs/inode-state became
a dummy value in Linux 2.4.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60836
Michael Kerrisk [A. Costa]
Note block size used by /proc/partitions
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=666972
Michael Kerrisk
Add rationale on drop_caches and note that it can hurt performance
See also http://lwn.net/Articles/562211/
bootparam.7
Michael Kerrisk [Eugen Dedu]
Remove "lilo" entries from SEE ALSO
See http://bugs.debian.org/604019
inotify.7
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add inotifywait(1) and inotifywatch(1)
ip.7
Simon Paillard
IP_MULTICAST_IF setsockopt recognizes struct mreq (compatibility)
Kernel added compatibility only recently in
3a084ddb4bf299a6e898a9a07c89f3917f0713f7
See: http://bugs.debian.org/607979
standards.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add mention of SUSv4-TC1 (POSIX.1-2013)
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.55 ====================
Released: 2013-12-12, Christchurch
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:
Alfred Agrell <alfred@agrell.info>
Andreas Sandberg <andreas.sandberg@it.uu.se>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Fabrice Bauzac <libnoon@gmail.com>
Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
Jon Grant <jg@jguk.org>
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Liu Jiaming <storypku@gmail.com>
Maxin B. John <maxin.john@enea.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Rodrigo Campos <rodrigo@sdfg.com.ar>
Shawn Landden <shawn@churchofgit.com>
Trevor Bramwell <trevor@bramwell.net>
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Yang Yang <yangyang.gnu@gmail.com>
Yuanhang Zheng <zhengyhn@gmail.com>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
janh <a0vhv@t-online.de>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Global changes
--------------
assert.3
assert_perror.3
rexec.3
rpc.3
Michael Kerrisk [Jon Grant]
Reword a sentence to use more gender-neutral language
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
execve.2
Michael Kerrisk
'arg...' for interpreter scripts starts with argv[1]
fallocate.2
Christoph Hellwig
Clarify the zeroing behavior
fallocate() zeroes only space that did not previously contain
data, but leaves existing data untouched.
futex.2
Rodrigo Campos
Fix link to Rusty's futex example library
When I asked to webmaster@kernel.org, Konstantin Ryabitsev
answered that the ".nl." is "an obsolete scheme and really
should be changed to just ftp.kernel.org".
getgroups.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that NGROUPS_MAX is defined in <limits.h>
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) is a run-time technique
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/kernel/ngroups_max
ioctl.2
Michael Kerrisk [KOSAKI Motohiro, David Gibson]
'request' argument is typed as 'unsigned long' in glibc
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42705
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver
Linux 3.12 rdpmc/mmap
It turns out that the perf_event mmap page rdpmc/time setting was
broken, dating back to the introduction of the feature. Due
to a mistake with a bitfield, two different values mapped to
the same feature bit.
A new somewhat backwards compatible interface was introduced
in Linux 3.12. A much longer report on the issue can be found
here:
https://lwn.net/Articles/567894/
Vince Weaver
Linux 3.12 adds PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER
A new PERF_SAMPLE_IDENTIFIER sample type was added in Linux 3.12.
Vince Weaver
E2BIG documentation
The following documents the E2BIG error return for
perf_event_open().
I actually ran into this error the hard way and it took me
half a day to figure out why my ->size value was changing.
Vince Weaver
Linux 3.12 adds PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID
A new perf_event related ioctl, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ID, was added
in Linux 3.12.
Vince Weaver
PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY support
Support for the PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY event type was added in
Linux 3.12.
Vince Weaver [Andreas Sandberg]
PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD update
The PERF_EVENT_IOC_PERIOD ioctl was broken until 2.6.36,
and it turns out that the ARM architecture has some
differing behavior too.
pipe.2
Trevor Bramwell
Fix error in example program
poll.2
Michael Kerrisk [Paolo Bonzini]
Clarify meaning of events==0
events==0 does not mean that revents is always returned as
zero. The "output only" events (POLLHUP, POLLERR, POLLNVAL)
can still be returned.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61911
readlink.2
Michael Kerrisk [Yuanhang Zheng]
Fix typo in error message in example program
recv.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove out-of-date statement that UNIX domain does not support MSG_TRUNC
Should have removed that sentence as part of
commit a25601b48b822eb1882ae336574b8d062a17e564
sched_get_priority_max.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add SCHED_IDLE to discussion
send.2
Michael Kerrisk
RETURN VALUE: these calls return number of bytes (not characters) sent
setreuid.2
Michael Kerrisk
Small clarification to description of when saved set-user-ID is set
sigpending.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note treatment of signals that are blocked *and* ignored
stat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note filesystem support for nanosecond timestamps
Add some detail on which native filesystems do and don't
support nanosecond timestamps.
Michael Kerrisk
Cosmetic reworking of timestamp discussion in NOTES
Michael Kerrisk [Yang Yang]
Update discussion of nanosecond timestamps
The existing text describes the timestamp fields as 'time_t'
and delegates discussion of nanosecond timestamps under NOTES.
Nanosecond timestamps have been around for a while now,
and are in POSIX.1-2008, so reverse the orientation of the
discussion, putting the nanosecond fields into DESCRIPTION
and detailing the historical situation under NOTES.
symlink.2
Michael Kerrisk
Further fine tuning of argument names
Follow-up to f2ae6dde0c68448bec986d12fe32268a2c98bfd9
See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16073
Michael Kerrisk [Fabrice Bauzac]
Give arguments of symlink() more meaningful names
adjtime.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function adjtime() is thread safe.
alloca.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function alloca() is thread safe.
asinh.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions asinh(), asinhf() and asinhl() are thread safe.
atan.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions atan(), atanf() and atanl() are thread safe.
atof.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function atof() is thread safe with exceptions.
atoi.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread safe with exceptions
The functions atoi(), atol() and atoll() are thread safe with
exceptions.
bcmp.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function bcmp() is thread safe.
bcopy.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function bcopy() is thread safe.
bsd_signal.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function bsd_signal() is thread safe.
bzero.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function bzero() is thread safe.
cbrt.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions cbrt(), cbrtf() and cbrtl() are thread safe.
copysign.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions copysign(), copysignf() and copysignl() are thread
safe.
cos.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions cos(), cosf() and cosl() are thread safe.
cproj.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions cproj(), cprojf() and cprojl() are thread safe.
creal.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions creal(), crealf() and creall() are thread safe.
daemon.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function daemon() is thread safe.
des_crypt.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions ecb_crypt(), cbc_crypt() and des_setparity() are
thread safe.
difftime.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function difftime() is thread safe.
dysize.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function dysize() is thread safe.
erf.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions erf(), erff() and erfl() are thread safe.
erfc.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions erfc(), erfcf() and erfcl() are thread safe.
euidaccess.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions euidaccess() and eaccess() are thread safe.
expm1.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions expm1(), expm1f() and expm1l() are thread safe.
fexecve.3
Michael Kerrisk
POSIX.1-2008 specifies fexecve()
Michael Kerrisk
Explain the use and rationale of fexecve()
ftime.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function ftime() is thread safe.
ftok.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function ftok() is thread safe.
ftw.3
Michael Kerrisk
nftw() visits directories with FTW_D if FTW_DEPTH was not specified
Michael Kerrisk
Explain probable cause of FTW_NS
futimes.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions futimes() and lutimes() are thread safe.
getaddrinfo.3
Michael Kerrisk
Explain one use case for AI_ADDRCONFIG
Michael Kerrisk
Highlight difference in ai_flags when hints==NULL
NOTES already described how glibc differs from POSIX.
Add a pointer to that text from the point in DESCRIPTION
where hints==NULL is discussed.
kcmp.3
Shawn Landden
Reword slightly awkward section
malloc.3
Greg Price
Scale back promises of alignment
It's not true that the return value is suitably aligned for "any
variable"; for example, it's unsuitable for a variable like
float *x __attribute__ ((__vector_size__ (32)));
which requires 32-byte alignment. Types like this are defined in
<avxintrin.h>, and with 16-byte alignment in <emmintrin.h> and
<xmmintrin.h>, so the application programmer need not even know
that a vector_size attribute has been applied.
On an x86 architecture, a program that loads from or stores to a
pointer with this type derived from malloc can crash because GCC
generates an aligned load/store, like MOVDQA.
The C99 standard (TC3, as of N1256) does say the return value is
suitably aligned for "any type of object". The C11 standard (as
of N1570) revises this to any type with "fundamental alignment",
which means an alignment "supported by the implementation in all
contexts", which I suppose tautologically includes aligning
malloc/realloc return values.
The actual behavior of current glibc malloc is to align to the
greater of 2 * sizeof(size_t) and __alignof__ (long double),
which may be one bit greater than this commit promises.
mq_receive.3
Michael Kerrisk [janh]
msg_len must be greater than *or equal to* mq_msgsize
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64571
setenv.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that setenv() returns success in the overwrite==0 case
sigsetops.3
Michael Kerrisk [Robert P. J. Day]
Add 'const' to sigisemptyset(), sigorset(), sigandset() declarations
Michael Kerrisk
Rework text describing sigisemptyset(), sigorset(), and sigandset()
statvfs.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions statvfs() and fstatvfs() are thread safe.
stdarg.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note macros that are thread-safe
The macros va_start(), va_arg(), va_end() and va_copy() are
thread safe.
termios.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions tcgetattr(), tcsetattr(), tcsendbreak(),
tcdrain(), tcflush(), tcflow(), cfmakeraw(), cfgetispeed(),
cfgetospeed(), cfsetispeed(), cfsetospeed() and cfsetspeed()
are thread safe.
ungetwc.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function ungetwc() is thread safe.
unlockpt.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function unlockpt() is thread safe.
usleep.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function usleep() is thread safe.
wcpcpy.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcpcpy() is thread safe.
wcscasecmp.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function wcscasecmp() is thread safe with exceptions.
wcscat.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcscat() is thread safe.
wcschr.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcschr() is thread safe.
wcscmp.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcscmp() is thread safe.
wcscpy.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcscpy() is thread safe.
wcscspn.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcscspn() is thread safe.
wcslen.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcslen() is thread safe.
wcsncasecmp.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function wcsncasecmp() is thread safe with exceptions.
wcsncat.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcsncat() is thread safe.
wcsncmp.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcsncmp() is thread safe.
wcsncpy.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcsncpy() is thread safe.
wcsnlen.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcsnlen() is thread safe.
wcspbrk.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcspbrk() is thread safe.
wcsrchr.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcsrchr() is thread safe.
wcsspn.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcsspn() is thread safe.
wcsstr.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcsstr() is thread safe.
wcstoimax.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread safe with exceptions
The functions wcstoimax() and wcstoumax() are thread safe with
exceptions.
wcstok.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcstok() is thread safe.
wcswidth.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function wcswidth() is thread safe with exceptions.
wctrans.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function wctrans() is thread safe with exceptions.
wctype.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function wctype() is thread safe with exceptions.
wcwidth.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function wcwidth() is thread safe with exceptions.
wmemchr.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wmemchr() is thread safe.
wmemcmp.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wmemcmp() is thread safe.
wmemcpy.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wmemcpy() is thread safe.
wmemmove.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wmemmove() is thread safe.
wmemset.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wmemset() is thread safe.
tty_ioctl.4
Michael Kerrisk [Liu Jiaming]
Note that 'arg' should be 0 in the usual case when using TIOCSCTTY
Michael Kerrisk
Rework text on root to discuss just in terms of capabilities
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/kernel/ngroups_max
capabilities.7
Michael Kerrisk
Fix 2 version numbers under "Effect of user ID changes on capabilities"
feature_test_macros.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add _ISOC11_SOURCE to example program
tcp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Fix (nontrivial) wordo in discussion of MSG_TRUNC
s/MSG_PEEK/MSG_TRUNC/
ld.so.8
Michael Kerrisk [Alfred Agrell]
Fix crufty wording in one sentence
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.56 ====================
Released: 2014-01-11, Christchurch
In memory of Doris Church (1939-2013)
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:
Andre Majorel <aym-xunil@teaser.fr>
Arif Zaman <arifz@lums.edu.pk>
Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Dongsheng Song <dongsheng.song@gmail.com>
Elie De Brauwer <eliedebrauwer@gmail.com>
James Smith <james@theta.pw>
Janne Blomqvist <blomqvist.janne@gmail.com>
Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Luke Hutchison <luke.hutch@mit.edu>
Marco Dione <mdione@grulic.org.ar>
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Moritz 'Morty' Strübe <morty@gmx.net>
Nadav Har'El <nyh@math.technion.ac.il>
OndÅej BÃlka <neleai@seznam.cz>
Prádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>
Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
Shawn Landden <shawn@churchofgit.com>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Stephen Kell <srk31@srcf.ucam.org>
Sudhanshu Goswami <Sudhanshu.Goswami@emc.com>
Sworddragon2 <sworddragon2@aol.com>
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
fgetc.3
gets.3
David Malcolm
Split gets(3) to isolate unsafe gets(3) to a page on its own
Currently man3/gets.3 documents various safe I/O functions, along
with the toxic "gets" function.
At the risk of being melodramatic, this strikes me as akin to
storing rat poison in a food cabinet, in the same style of
packaging as the food, but with a post-it note on it saying
"see warnings below".
I think such "never use this" functions should be quarantined
into their own manpages, rather than listing them alongside
sane functions.
The attached patch does this for "gets", moving the documentation
of the good functions from man3/gets.3 into man3/fgetc.3,
updating the SO links in the relevant functions to point at the
latter.
It then rewrites man3/gets.3 to spell out that "gets" is toxic
and should never be used (with a link to CWE-242 for good
measure).
Michael Kerrisk [Andre Majorel]
Tweaks to David Malcolm's patch
vdso.7
Mike Frysinger
New page documenting the vDSO mapped into each process by the kernel
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
reboot.2
Elie De Brauwer
Document LINUX_REBOOT_SW_SUSPEND
New and changed links
---------------------
fgets.3
getc.3
getchar.3
ungetc.3
Michael Kerrisk
Adjust links to gets(3) to point to fgetc(3)
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Global fix of "NULL pointer"
Change "NULL pointer" to "NULL" or null pointer".
POSIX uses the term "null pointer", not "NULL pointer".
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Stylistic changes to code example
For ease of reading, don't embed assignments inside if().
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Replace uses of "i.e.," in main text with "that is" or similar
Usual man-pages style is to use "i.e." only within
parenthetical expressions.
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Replace uses of "e.g." in main text with "for example" or similar
Usual man-pages style is to use "e.g." only within
parenthetical expressions.
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Add "Program source" subheading under EXAMPLE
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Add "static" to global variables and functions in example program
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
clock_getres.2
Michael Kerrisk [Nadav Har'El]
Improve description of CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67291
close.2
Michael Kerrisk [P?draig Brady]
Note that errors from close() should be used only for diagnosis
In particular, retrying after EINTR is a bad idea.
See http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=529
See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha/37702
Subject: [RFC][BZ #14627] Make linux close errno to EINPROGRESS
when interrupted in signal.
execve.2
Michael Kerrisk [Marco Dione]
Add further cases to EFAULT error
See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16402
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver [Sudhanshu Goswami]
Clarify issues with the disabled bit
Clarify the perf_event_open behavior with respect to the disabled
bit and creating event groups.
Vince Weaver [Sudhanshu Goswami]
Clarify issues with the exclusive bit
Warn that using the perf_event_open "exclusive" bit, while
it might seem like a good idea, might lead to all 0 results
in some common usage cases.
reboot.2
Elie De Brauwer
Mention RB_POWER_OFF
The manpage did not mention RB_POWER_OFF which is the glibc
symbolic name for LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF.
$ cd /usr/include
$ cat x86_64-linux-gnu/sys/reboot.h | grep POWER_OFF
define RB_POWER_OFF 0x4321fedc
Elie De Brauwer
Add "Linux" to kernel version numbers
Michael Kerrisk
Add RB_SW_SUSPEND synonym
Michael Kerrisk
Add RB_KEXEC synonym
setpgid.2
Michael Kerrisk [Joseph S. Myers]
BSD getpgrp() and setpgrp() go away in glibc 2.19
socket.2
Michael Kerrisk [Dongsheng Song]
Remove crufty statement that AF_INET does not support SOCK_SEQPACKET
Linux AF_INET supports SOCK_SEQPACKET via SCTP.
syscall.2
Mike Frysinger
Fix ia64 registers
The original list of registers was created by confusing strace
source code--this is for parsing legacy 32-bit code (which is
dead and no one cares). Update the list to reflect native ia64
syscall interface.
syscall.2
syscalls.2
getauxval.3
Mike Frysinger
Add references to new vdso(7) page
utimensat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Small wording improvement for times!=NULL case
dlopen.3
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
Update remarks on cast needed when assigning dlsym() return value
POSIX.1-2013 eases life when casting the dlsym() return value to a
function pointer
Michael Kerrisk [Stephen Kell]
Fix description of dli_sname
See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16262
getline.3
Michael Kerrisk [Luke Hutchison]
Correct description of how '*n' is used when '*lineptr' == NULL
See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5468
Michael Kerrisk
Remove SEE ALSO reference to unsafe gets(3)
mcheck.3
Simon Paillard [Raphael Geissert]
typo in compiler flag
See http://bugs.debian.org/732464
mkstemp.3
Michael Kerrisk [Janne Blomqvist]
Better describe 'flags' that can be specified for mkostemp()
printf.3
Michael Kerrisk [Arif Zaman]
Fix memory leak in snprintf() example
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19933479/snprintf-man-page-example-memory-leak
pthread_kill.3
Michael Kerrisk [Mathieu Desnoyers]
POSIX.1-2008 removes ESRCH
POSIX.1-2001 mistakenly documented an ESRCH error, and
POSIX.1-2008 removes this error. Glibc does return
this error in cases where it can determine that a thread ID
is invalid, but equally, the use of an invalid thread ID
can cause a segmentation fault.
puts.3
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: replace reference to gets(3) with fgets(3)
scanf.3
Michael Kerrisk [OndÅej BÃlka]
Improve discussion of obsolete 'a' dynamic allocation modifier
setjmp.3
Michael Kerrisk [Joseph S. Myers]
BSD setjmp() semantics go away in glibc 2.19
sigpause.3
Michael Kerrisk [Joseph S. Myers]
BSD sigpause() goes away in glibc 2.19
Michael Kerrisk
Correct feature text macro requirements
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function sigpause() is thread safe.
sigqueue.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function sigqueue() is thread safe.
sigwait.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function sigwait() is thread safe.
sin.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions sin(), sinf() and sinl() are thread safe.
sincos.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions sincos(), sincosf() and sincosl() are thread safe.
string.3
Moritz 'Morty' Strübe
Add short description of the functions
It is helpful to have a short description about what the different
functions in string.h do.
Michael Kerrisk
Fixes and enhancements to Moritz Strübe's patch
strptime.3
Michael Kerrisk [Mathieu Malaterre, Simon Paillard]
Add number ranges to comments in 'tm' structure
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729570
Michael Kerrisk
Point to ctime(3) for more details on 'tm' structure
Michael Kerrisk
Some rewording and reorganization
strsep.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify description
The use of "symbols" in the existing description is confusing;
it's "bytes". Other fixes as well.
strspn.3
Michael Kerrisk [Mathieu Malaterre]
Improve description in NAME
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=723659
strstr.3
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify RETURN VALUE: s/substring/located substring/
sysv_signal.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function sysv_signal() is thread safe.
tan.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions tan(), tanf() and tanl() are thread safe.
tanh.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions tanh(), tanhf() and tanhl() are thread safe.
toascii.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function toascii() is thread safe.
toupper.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread safe with exceptions
The functions toupper() and tolower() are thread safe with
exceptions.
towctrans.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function towctrans() is thread safe.
towlower.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function towlower() is thread safe with exceptions.
towupper.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function towupper() is thread safe with exceptions.
ualarm.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function ualarm() is thread safe.
wcpncpy.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function wcpncpy() is thread safe.
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk [Sworddragon2]
Fix formula for CommitLimit under /proc/meminfo
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60991
credentials.7
Michael Kerrisk
List APIs that operate on process groups
Michael Kerrisk
Add details on controlling terminal and foreground/background jobs
feature_test_macros.7
Michael Kerrisk
Document _DEFAULT_SOURCE
Michael Kerrisk [Joseph S. Myers]
From glibc 2.19, _BSD_SOURCE no longer causes __FAVOR_BSD
Starting with glibc 2.19, _BSD_SOURCE no longer causes BSD
definitions to be favored in cases where standards conflict.
libc.7
Mike Frysinger
SEE ALSO: add various entries
man-pages.7
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
Add STYLE GUIDE section
Incorporate some of the existing material in the page
into the STYLE GUIDE, and add a lot more material, mainly
drawn from the "Global changes" sections in the release
changelogs.
Michael Kerrisk
Add historical note on reason for use of American spelling
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger]
Various improvements to style guide
packet.7
Willem de Bruijn [Daniel Borkmann]
Document fanout, ring, and auxiliary options
This patch adds descriptions of the common packet socket options
PACKET_AUXDATA, PACKET_FANOUT, PACKET_RX_RING, PACKET_STATISTICS,
PACKET_TX_RING
and the ring-specific options
PACKET_LOSS, PACKET_RESERVE, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, PACKET_VERSION
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel version numbers for PACKET_VERSION and PACKET_TIMESTAMP
ld.so.8
Michael Kerrisk [Matthias Klose]
Default output file for D_DEBUG is stderr not stdout
See https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6874
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.57 ====================
Released: 2014-01-24, 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:
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Andre Majorel <aym-xunil@teaser.fr>
Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>
Brandon Edens <bedens@fitbit.com>
Eliezer Tamir <eliezer.tamir@linux.intel.com>
Gioele Barabucci <gioele@svario.it>
Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Jerry Chu <hkchu@google.com>
Jonas Jonsson <jonas@websystem.se>
Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
Simone Piccardi <piccardi@truelite.it>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Thomas Posch <man-pages@online.posch.name>
Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
ÐаÑк ÐоÑенбеÑг <socketpair@gmail.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
msgop.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document MSG_COPY
open.2
Michael Kerrisk, Andy Lutomirski
Document O_TMPFILE
O_TMPFILE is new in Linux 3.11
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver [Andi Kleen]
PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION support in Linux 3.13
The following patch adds descriptions of the new perf_event_open.2
PERF_SAMPLE_TRANSACTION sample type as added in Linux 3.13.
The descriptions are based on information provided by Andi Kleen,
both in the e-mail
[PATCH 1/6] perf, core: Add generic transaction flags v5
sent to the linux-kernel list as well as an e-mail
[PATCH] Document transaction flags in perf_event_open manpage
sent to the linux-man list.
The implementation is based heavily on the Intel Haswell
processor. Documentation can be found at this page:
http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/05/03/intelr-transactional-synchronization-extensions-intelr-tsx-profiling-with-linux-0
as well as in section 18.11.5.1 of volume 3 of the
Intel 64 and IA-32 Architecture Software Developer's Manual.
ptrace.2
Andrey Vagin
Add description for PTRACE_PEEKSIGINFO
Retrieve signals without removing them from a queue.
Andrey Vagin
Add description for PTRACE_GETSIGMASK and PTRACE_SETSIGMASK
These two commands allow to examine and change mask of blocked
signals.
socket.7
Eliezer Tamir
Add description for SO_BUSY_POLL
Add description for the SO_BUSY_POLL socket option.
tcp.7
Michael Kerrisk [Jerry Chu]
Document TCP_USER_TIMEOUT
Text slightly adapted from Jerry Chu's (excellent) commit
message (commit dca43c75e7e545694a9dd6288553f55c53e2a3a3).
Michael Kerrisk
Document TCP_CONGESTION
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Reword to avoid use of "etc."
Various pages
Peng Haitao [Andre Majorel]
Make wording around thread-safety and setlocale() more precise
getdate.3
strptime.3
locale.5
Michael Kerrisk
Replace "weekday" with less ambiguous language
Notwithstanding POSIX's use of the term "weekday", in everyday
English, "weekday" is commonly understood to mean a day in the
set [Monday..Friday] (vs one of the "weekend" days).
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
epoll_wait.2
Michael Kerrisk [Jonas Jonsson]
Clarify wording of EINTR error
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66571
faccessat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that the system call takes only three arguments
fallocate.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note filesystems that support FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE operation
fcntl.2
Michael Kerrisk
BUGS: The O_SYNC and O_DSYNC flags are not modifiable using F_SETFL
Michael Kerrisk
Add susbsections under BUGS
There's several bugs listed. It's helpful to mark
them separately.
Michael Kerrisk
POSIX.1 specifies F_SETOWN and F_GETOWN for sockets/SIGURG
getrlimit.2
Michael Kerrisk [ÐаÑк ÐоÑенбеÑг]
Note that rlim_cur can be set lower than current resource consumption
getsockopt.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add ip(7) and udp(7)
keyctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: mention Documentation/security/keys.txt
linkat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add ENOENT for O_TMPFILE created with O_EXCL
Michael Kerrisk
ERRORS: Add EINVAL
lseek.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note which filesystems support SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA
msgop.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that MSG_EXCEPT is Linux-specific
open.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update CONFORMING TO
Add POSIX.1-2008. Add mention of O_TMPFILE.
Update text on various flags that were added in POSIX.1-2008, and
whose definitions can, since glibc 2.12, be obtained by suitably
defining _POSIX_C_SOURCE or _XOPEN_SOURCE
Michael Kerrisk
Add pointer in description to BUGS, for O_ASYNC limitation
Michael Kerrisk
Remove crufty duplicate text on modifying file status flags
ptrace.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add details to descriptions of PTRACE_GETSIGMASK and PTRACE_SETSIGMASK
select.2
Michael Kerrisk [Marc Lehmann]
RETURN VALUE: Fix discussion of treatment of file descriptor sets
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574370
syscalls.2
Michael Kerrisk
Remove madvise1() from main list
madvise1() is one of the system calls that was never
implemented, and listed toward the bottom of the page.
timer_create.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add pointer to proc(5) for info on /proc/[pid]/timers
unlinkat.2
Michael Kerrisk [Mike Frysinger:]
ERRORS: Add EISDIR
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29702
ferror.3
Michael Kerrisk
clearerr(), feof(), and ferror() are also POSIX-conformant
Michael Kerrisk [Reuben Thomas]
CONFORMING TO: add fileno()
gets.3
Ian Abbott
SEE ALSO: add fgets(3)
mq_receive.3
mq_send.3
Michael Kerrisk [Simone Piccardi]
SYNOPSIS: s/unsigned/unsigned int/
printf.3
Michael Kerrisk
Small reorganization of text in EXAMPLE
rand.3
Michael Kerrisk
s/unsigned/unsigned int/ in example
stpcpy.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function stpcpy() is thread safe.
stpncpy.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function stpncpy() is thread safe.
strcat.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions strcat() and strncat() are thread safe.
strchr.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions strchr(), strrchr() and strchrnul() are thread safe.
strcmp.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions strcmp() and strncmp() are thread safe.
strftime.3
Brandon Edens
Change "week day" to "day of week"
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68861
strstr.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function strstr() is thread safe.
The function strcasestr() is thread safe with exceptions.
strtod.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread safe with exceptions
The functions strtod(), strtof() and strtold() are thread safe
with exceptions.
strtoimax.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread safe with exceptions
The functions strtoimax() and strtoumax() are thread safe with
exceptions.
strtol.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread safe with exceptions
The functions strtol(), strtoll() and strtoq() are thread safe
with exceptions.
tcgetpgrp.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions tcgetpgrp() and tcsetpgrp() are thread safe.
tcgetsid.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function tcgetsid() is thread safe.
core.5
Bernhard Walle
Mention that %E exists since Linux 3.0
'%E' in the 'core_pattern' has been introduced in kernel commit
57cc083ad9e1bfeeb4a0ee831e7bb008c8865bf0 which was included in
version 3.0. Add that information to the manual page.
filesystems.5
Michael Kerrisk [Axel Beckert]
Add reference to proc(5) for more details on /proc/filesystems
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=735590
locale.5
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add locale(7)
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/[pid]/timers
Michael Kerrisk
Update discussion of wchan
Remove crufty reference to /etc/psdatabase in /proc/PID/stat.
Add /proc/PID/wchan.
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/737452
environ.7
Michael Kerrisk [Gioele Barabucci]
Correct reference to locale(7) (not locale(5))
locale(7) is the right place for details of the LC_*
environment variables.
See http://bugs.debian.org/638186
Michael Kerrisk
Improve references for discussion of locale environment variables
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add catopen(3)
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: add locale(5)
man-pages.7
Michael Kerrisk
Prefer "usable" over "useable"
netdevice.7
Tilman Schmidt
Document SIOCGIFCONF case ifc_req==NULL
Add the missing description of the possibility to call SIOCGIFCONF
with ifc_req==NULL to determine the needed buffer size, as
described in
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.1/0506.html
and verified against source files net/core/dev_ioctl.c and
net/ipv4/devinet.c in the current kernel git tree.
This functionality has been present since the beginning of the 2.6
series. It's about time it gets documented.
While I'm at it, also generally clarify the section on
SIOCGIFCONF.
standards.7
Michael Kerrisk
Enhance description of V7
Michael Kerrisk
Add C11
tcp.7
Michael Kerrisk
Describe format of tcp_*_congestion_control /proc files
Describe format of tcp_allowed_congestion_control and
tcp_available_congestion_control.
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.58 ====================
Released: 2014-02-11, 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:
Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz>
Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
Fabrice Bauzac <libnoon@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Network Nut <sillystack@gmail.com>
Ola Olsson <ola1olsson@gmail.com>
Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
Peter Schiffer <pschiffe@redhat.com>
Simone Piccardi <piccardi@truelite.it>
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
ÐаÑк ÐоÑенбеÑг <socketpair@gmail.com>
æªå·èµ·ç浪 <ayjj_8109@qq.com>
Apologies if I missed anyone!
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
pipe.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document the pipe2() O_DIRECT flag added in Linux 3.4
packet.7
Daniel Borkmann
Document PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS
New in Linux 3.14.
Global changes
--------------
Various pages
Simon Paillard
Formatting fix: add space between function and () if BR or IR
Detected through the regex:
git grep -P '^\.(BR|IR) [\w]*\([\d]*\)$'
Various pages
Simon Paillard
Formatting fix: add space between word and punctuation if BR or IR
Detected through the regex:
git grep -P '^\.(BR|IR) [^ ]*[,\.]$'
Could probably be extended to match more cases and fix in perl.
Various pages
Michael Kerrisk
Use Oxford comma
gettid.2
restart_syscall.2
passwd.5
socket.7
Michael Kerrisk
Fix order of SEE ALSO entries
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
epoll_wait.2
Michael Kerrisk [Network Nut]
Remove word "minimum" from the description of 'timeout'
epoll_wait.2
poll.2
select.2
Michael Kerrisk
Go into more detail on timeout and when call will cease blocking
getxattr.2
listxattr.2
removexattr.2
setxattr.2
Michael Kerrisk [Fabrice Bauzac]
Correct header file is <sys/xattr.h> (not <xattr/xattr.h>)
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70141
msgctl.2
Cyril Hrubis
Add note about ignored arg to IPC_RMID
prctl.2
Michael Kerrisk [ÐаÑк ÐоÑенбеÑг]
PR_SET_PDEATHSIG value is preserved across execve(2)
recv.2
Michael Kerrisk
Rework and reorganize the text in various parts of the page.
Isolate details specific to recv() vs recvfrom() vs recvmsg()
Place details specific to each system call under a
a separate subheading.
Rework discussion of 'src_addr' and 'addrlen' for recvfrom()
Add description of 'buf' and 'len' in recvfrom() section
'addrlen' should be 0 (*not* NULL) when 'src_addr' is NULL
Improve text describing recvfrom() call that is equivalent to recv()
Michael Kerrisk [æªå·èµ·ç浪]
Describe the various cases where the return value can be 0
shmctl.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note that 'buf' is ignored for IPC_RMID
symlinkat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Make argument names consistent with symlink(2) page
isalpha.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
The functions isalnum(), isalpha(), isascii(), isblank(),
iscntrl(), isdigit(), isgraph(), islower(), isprint(),
ispunct(), isspace(), isupper() and isxdigit() are thread safe.
isatty.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
The function isatty() is thread safe.
isgreater.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note macros that are thread-safe
The macros isgreater(), isgreaterequal(), isless(),
islessequal(), islessgreater() and isunordered() are thread safe.
iswalnum.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function iswalnum() is thread safe with exceptions.
iswalpha.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function iswalpha() is thread safe with exceptions.
iswblank.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function iswblank() is thread safe with exceptions.
iswcntrl.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions
The function iswcntrl() is thread safe with exceptions.
lockf.3
Michael Kerrisk [Simone Piccardi]
Fix incorrect argument mentioned under EINVAL error
pthread_kill.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add feature test macro requirements
pthread_sigmask.3
Michael Kerrisk
Add feature test macro requirements
strtoul.3
Peng Haitao
ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread safe with exceptions
The functions strtoul(), strtoull() and strtouq() are thread safe
with exceptions.
nscd.conf.5
Peter Schiffer
Add note about default values
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
SEE ALSO: Add some further kernel Documentation/sysctl files
man-pages.7
Michael Kerrisk
ATTRIBUTES sections come after VERSIONS
Peng Haitao has consistently ordered the ATTRIBUTES after
VERSIONS, so adjust the text in man-pages.7
vdso.7
Michael Kerrisk
Add words "virtual dynamic shared object" in DESCRIPTION
