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author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-04-20 11:08:56 +0200 |
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committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2014-04-20 11:08:56 +0200 |
commit | 645de70f2f05ef9ba4d818557dc26e8a2d5c4f33 (patch) | |
tree | dd4a8afe40fa565bffa4d9ee9142f56d801e70bc /Changes.old | |
parent | 035e513fc10bc90f6c527d75defa52fed792a535 (diff) |
Start of man-pages-3.66: updating Changes and Changes.old
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diff --git a/Changes.old b/Changes.old index d1baffbcc..f15a38f30 100644 --- a/Changes.old +++ b/Changes.old @@ -30925,3 +30925,219 @@ symlink.7 name_to_handle_at(2) and open_by_handle_at(2) optionally follow symlinks Michael Kerrisk Mention use of readlink(2) to read contents of a symlink + + +==================== Changes in man-pages-3.65 ==================== + +Released: 2014-04-20, 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: + +Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com> +Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com> +Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org> +Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> +Craig McQueen <craig.mcqueen@beamcommunications.com> +Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> +David Prévot <taffit@debian.org> +Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> +Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@chromium.org> +Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> +Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com> +Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com> +Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz> +Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com> +Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org> +Steven Stewart-Gallus <sstewartgallus00@mylangara.bc.ca> +Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> +Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru> + +Apologies if I missed anyone! + + +New and rewritten pages +----------------------- + +inet_net_pton.3 + Michael Kerrisk + New page describing inet_net_pton(3) and inet_net_ntop(3) + + +Newly documented interfaces in existing pages +--------------------------------------------- + +fallocate.2 + Michael Kerrisk, Namjae Jeon [Christoph Hellwig, Dave Chinner] + Document FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE + +prctl.2 + Michael Kerrisk [Alex Thorlton] + Document PR_SET_THP_DISABLE and PR_GET_THP_DISABLE + +proc.5 + Michael Kerrisk + Document /proc/[pid]/stack + Michael Kerrisk + Document /proc/[pid]/clear_refs + + +New and changed links +--------------------- + +inet_net_ntop.3 + Michael Kerrisk + New link to new inet_net_pton.3 + + +Changes to individual pages +--------------------------- + +fcntl.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Note the race when O_CLOEXEC is used at same time as fork()+execve() + +madvise.2 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: see prctl(2) + Because of PR_SET_THP_DISABLE. + +mlock.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Describe treatment of MCL_FUTURE during fork(2) and execve(2) + +msync.2 + Michael Kerrisk [Richard Hansen, Greg Troxel] + Warn that one of MS_SYNC or MS_ASYNC is required + +open.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Add more detail on the race that O_CLOEXEC is designed to avoid + Michael Kerrisk [Matthew Dempsky] + Remove crufty text stating that O_DIRECTORY is Linux-specific + Michael Kerrisk + Note which filesystems support O_TMPFILE + +perf_event_open.2 + Vince Weaver [Michael Kerrisk] + Clarify EACCES and EPERM errors + Clarify the reasons for EACCES and EPERM errors. + Vince Weaver [Michael Kerrisk] + Make the ERRORS section more comprehensive. + Determined both by code inspection and by writing a large + number of test programs. + +personality.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Available execution domains are listed in <sys/personality.h> + Michael Kerrisk + Fix discussion of return value + +prctl.2 + Michael Kerrisk + ERRORS: document EINVAL for PR_GET_NO_NEW_PRIVS + ERRORS: document EINVAL for PR_SET_PDEATHSIG + ERRORS: document EINVAL for PR_SET_TIMING + ERRORS: document EINVAL for PR_SET_DUMPABLE + ERRORS: document EINVAL for PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS + +shmget.2 + Michael Kerrisk + Rewrite description of SHMMNI default value + Michael Kerrisk + Note default value of SHMMAX + Note default value for SHMALL + +byteorder.3 + Peng Haitao + ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe + The functions htonl(), htons(), ntohl() and ntohs() are thread + safe. + +fexecve.3 + Michael Kerrisk [Steven Stewart-Gallus] + If 'fd' is a close-on-exec file descriptor for a script, fexecve() fails + See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74481 + +ffs.3 + Peng Haitao + ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe + The functions ffs(), ffsl() and ffsll() are thread safe. + +getauxval.3 + Peng Haitao + ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe + The function getauxval() is thread safe. + +getcontext.3 + Peng Haitao + ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe + The functions getcontext() and setcontext() are thread safe. + +getsubopt.3 + Peng Haitao + ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe + The function getsubopt() is thread safe. + +getutmp.3 + Peng Haitao + ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe + The functions getutmp() and getutmpx() are thread safe. + +inet.3 + Michael Kerrisk + Note success and error return for inet_aton() + +inet.3 + Michael Kerrisk [Craig McQueen] + The form 'a.b' if is suitable for Class A addresses (not class C) + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: add inet_net_pton(3) + +makecontext.3 + Peng Haitao + ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe + The functions makecontext() and swapcontext() are thread safe. + +pthread_attr_setdetachstate.3 + Peng Haitao + ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe + The functions pthread_attr_setdetachstate() and + pthread_attr_getdetachstate() are thread safe. + +pthread_attr_setguardsize.3 + Peng Haitao + ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe + The functions pthread_attr_setguardsize() and + pthread_attr_getguardsize() are thread safe. + +sigsetops.3 + Peng Haitao + ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe + The functions sigemptyset(), sigfillset(), sigaddset(), + sigdelset(), sigismember(), sigisemptyset(), sigorset() and + sigandset() are thread safe. + +proc.5 + Petr Gajdos + Improve /proc/[pid]/smaps entries description + Michael Kerrisk + /proc/PID/smaps is present only if CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR + Michael Kerrisk + Note kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/{shmall,shmmax} + Michael Kerrisk + Note kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/{msgmax,msgmnb} + +capabilities.7 + Michael Kerrisk + SEE ALSO: add capsh(1) + +libc.7 + Michael Kerrisk + Add musl libc |