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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-05-10 07:27:15 +0200 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-05-10 07:27:15 +0200 |
commit | 5290e8655622cb4e79f4438f2ed698dc0b518257 (patch) | |
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parent | 6361ead67e84ad55ac0bf736f2a3e9b66ebd0de4 (diff) |
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diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index 2dd53e7cb..ae8531132 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -41489,3 +41489,265 @@ unix.7 Introduce term "sequenced-packet" for SOCK_SEQPACKET Michael Kerrisk Some wording improvements + + +==================== Changes in man-pages-4.06 ==================== + +Released: 2016-05-09, Oslo + + +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: + +Alexander Miller <alex.miller@gmx.de> +Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> +Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com> +Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> +Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> +Dr. Tobias Quathamer <toddy@debian.org> +Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com> +Georg Sauthoff <gsauthof@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> +Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de> +Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net> +Jordan Birks <birkses@hotmail.com> +Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com> +Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> +Nikola Forró <nforro@redhat.com> +Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> +Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> +Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> +Valery Reznic <valery_reznic@yahoo.com> +Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel <Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com> + +Apologies if I missed anyone! + + +New and rewritten pages +----------------------- + +cgroups.7 + Serge Hally, Michael Kerrisk + New page documenting cgroups + +cgroup_namespaces.7 + Michael Kerrisk [Serge Hallyn] + New page describing cgroup namespaces + + +Newly documented interfaces in existing pages +--------------------------------------------- + +clone.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Document CLONE_NEWCGROUP + +setns.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Document CLONE_NEWCGROUP + +unshare.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Document CLONE_NEWCGROUP + + +Changes to individual pages +--------------------------- + +clock_getres.2 + Michael Kerrisk [Rasmus Villemoes] + Note that coarse clocks need architecture and VDSO support + +clone.2 +fork.2 + Nikola Forró + Document ERESTARTNOINTR error code + +clone.2 + Michael Kerrisk [Colin Ian King] + ERRORS: add EINVAL for improperly aligned 'child_stack' value + +execve.2 + Michael Kerrisk [Valery Reznic] + Since Linux 2.6.28, recursive script interpretation is supported + +fcntl.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Note that mandatory locking is now governed by a configuration option + +fsync.2 + Michael Kerrisk [Georg Sauthoff] + Give some examples of files where sync can fail with EINVAL + +getrlimit.2 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: add cgroups(7) + +ioctl_fat.2 + Heinrich Schuchardt + Use %04x to print volume ID + Leading zeroes should be used when display a FAT volume ID. + +ioprio_set.2 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: add cgroups(7) + +lseek.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Note that 'off_t' is an integer data type defined by POSIX + +memfd_create.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Note that memfd_create() does not have a glibc wrapper + +mount.2 + Michael Kerrisk + MS_MANDLOCK requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN (since Linux 4.5) + +quotactl.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Document Q_GETNEXTQUOTA and Q_XGETNEXTQUOTA + Michael Kerrisk + Rework/reorder ERRORS list + Make into a single alphabetically ordered list + Michael Kerrisk + Note kernel version that removed Q_GETSTATS + Michael Kerrisk + Add kernel version for G_GETINFO, Q_SETINFO, and Q_GETFMT + +readv.2 + Christoph Hellwig + Document preadv2() and pwritev2() + Michael Kerrisk + Clarify that 'size_t' and 'ssize_t' are integer types specified in POSIX + +semctl.2 + Michael Kerrisk + From kernel 4.6, Linux now updates 'sempid' on SETALL operations + +sigaction.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Document SEGV_BNDERR + Michael Kerrisk + Document SEGV_PKUERR + +syscalls.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Add preadv2() and pwritev2() + +write.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Clarify that 'size_t' and 'ssize_t' are integer types specified in POSIX + +makedev.3 + Mike Frysinger + Use <sys/sysmacros.h> in SYNOPSIS + Defining these functions via <sys/types.h> causes problems for + some folk. As noted by Zack Wein: + + libstdc++ force-enables _GNU_SOURCE, which means people + writing in C++ _can't_ avoid these nonstandard macros by + using a strict conformance mode. + + Since glibc has basically always used <sys/sysmacros.h>, + update the docs to have people include that instead. + Michael Kerrisk + NOTES: mention that <sys/types.h> may also define these macros + +popen.3 + Nikola Forró + RETURN VALUE: describe successful case + Reference: + http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/popen.html + http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pclose.html + +strtod.3 + Michael Kerrisk [Ed Avis] + Improve a detail in RETURN VALUE + +core.5 + Michael Kerrisk + Document /proc/sys/kernel/core_pipe_limit + +locale.5 + Marko Myllynen + Adjust LC_IDENTIFICATION / abbreviation + Tiny tweak to locale.5 based on the on ISO/IEC TR 14652: + + http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/SC22/WG20/docs/n972-14652ft.pdf + Marko Myllynen + Update LC_ADDRESS after glibc change + This patch updates locale.5 to match the recent glibc change + in commit a837257199ffab76237385b830cc7b6179fc2f18 + Marko Myllynen + Complete LC_COLLATE + Here's the first attempt to (almost) complete the locale.5 manual + page by documenting all (but perhaps one) of the missing + LC_COLLATE keywords. + Mike Frysinger + country_car: Add a better description + + +nsswitch.conf.5 + Marko Myllynen + Document group merging + Document the recently merged glibc group merge support. + Glibc commit ced8f8933673f4efda1d666d26a1a949602035ed + https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Proposals/GroupMerging + +proc.5 + Michael Kerrisk + Move /proc/PID/cgroup discussion to cgroups(7) page + Michael Kerrisk + Add some background on why /proc/PID/mountinfo was added + Michael Kerrisk + Improve description of /proc/PID/mountinfo 'root' field + Michael Kerrisk + Add pointer to cgroups(7) for documentation of /proc/cgroups + Michael Kerrisk + Add reference to core(5) for info on /proc/sys/kernel/core_pipe_limit + +cpuset.7 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: add cgroups(7) + +ip.7 + Benjamin Poirier + Fix incorrect sockopt name + "IP_LEAVE_GROUP" does not exist. It was perhaps a confusion with + MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP. Change the text to IP_DROP_MEMBERSHIP which has + the same function as MCAST_LEAVE_GROUP and is documented in the + ip.7 man page. + + Reference: + Linux kernel net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c do_ip_setsockopt() + + Cc: Radek Pazdera <rpazdera@redhat.com> + +namespaces.7 + Michael Kerrisk + Add /proc/PID/mountinfo discussion under cgroup namespaces + The discussion here is contingent on the acceptance of + Serge Hallyn's patch, "mountinfo: implement show_path + for kernfs and cgroup". + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: add cgroups(7), cgroup_namespaces(7) + +vdso.7 + Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel [Mike Frysinger] + Update for MIPS + Document the symbols exported by the MIPS VDSO. + VDSO support was added from kernel 4.4 onwards. + + See https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/arch/mips/vdso + Michael Kerrisk [Rasmus Villemoes] + The __kernel_clock_* interfaces don't support *_COARSE clocks on PowerPC + +ld.so.8 + Michael Kerrisk [Alon Bar-Lev] + Document use of $ORIGIN, $LIB, and $PLATFORM in environment variables + These strings are meaningful in LD_LIBRARY_PATH and LD_PRELOAD. |