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==================== Changes in man-pages-4.16 ====================

Released: ????-??-??, 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:

Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Andy Owen <andrew.owen@dolby.com>
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Carsten Grohmann <carstengrohmann@gmx.de>
Elvira Khabirova <lineprinter@altlinux.org>
Enrique Garcia <cquike@arcor.de>
Frederic Brault <fbrault@xyalis.com>
Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Howard Johnson <hwj@BridgeportContractor.com>
Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Jürg Billeter <j@bitron.ch>
Konstantin Grinemayer <cdlscpmv@gmail.com>
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmavrogi@redhat.com>
Robin Kuzmin <kuzmin.robin@gmail.com>
Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Tomi Salminen <tsalminen@forcepoint.com>

Apologies if I missed anyone!


Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------

membarrier.2
    Mathieu Desnoyers  [Michael Kerrisk]
        Document new membarrier commands introduced in Linux 4.16
            Document the following membarrier commands introduced in
            Linux 4.16:

                MEMBARRIER_CMD_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED
                    (the old enum label MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED is now an
                    alias to preserve header backward compatibility)
                MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_GLOBAL_EXPEDITED
                MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE
                MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_SYNC_CORE

mmap.2
    Jan Kara  [Ross Zwisler, Michael Kerrisk]
        Add description of MAP_SHARED_VALIDATE and MAP_SYNC
    Michal Hocko  [John Hubbard, Michael Kerrisk, Jann Horn]
        Document new MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag
            4.17+ kernels offer a new MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE flag which allows
            the caller to atomically probe for a given address range.

readv.2
io_submit.2
    Jürg Billeter
        Document RWF_APPEND added in Linux 4.16

capabilities.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        Describe file capability versioning
    Michael Kerrisk  [Serge E. Hallyn]
        Document namespaced-file capabilities
        [There's still more work to be done on this new text]


Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

bpf.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Update list of architectures that support JITed eBPF
            And note kernel version numbers where support is added.
    Michael Kerrisk
        Kernel 4.15 added CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
            This causes the JIT compiler to be always on and
            forces bpf_jit_enable to 1.

execve.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Note that describing execve as "executing a new process" is misleading
            This misdescription is so common that it's worth calling it out
            explicitly.
    Michael Kerrisk
        More explicitly describe effect of execve() in the opening paragraph

fallocate.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Since Linux 4.16, Btrfs supports FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE

getrlimit.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        CAP_SYS_RESOURCE capability is required in *initial user namespace*

io_submit.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add kernel version numbers for various 'aio_rw_flags' flags
    Michael Kerrisk
        Place 'aio_rw_flags' in alphabetical order

mmap.2
    Jann Horn
        MAP_FIXED is okay if the address range has been reserved
            Clarify that MAP_FIXED is appropriate if the specified address
            range has been reserved using an existing mapping, but shouldn't
            be used otherwise.
    Michael Kerrisk
        Move the text on MAP_FIXED to NOTES
            This text has become rather long, making it it somewhat
            unwieldy in the discussion of the mmap() flags. Therefore,
            move it to NOTES, with a pointer in DESCRIPTION referring
            the reader to NOTES.
    Michael Kerrisk  [Heinrich Schuchardt]
        Clarify that when addr==NULL, address chosen by kernel is page-aligned
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add a little historical detail on the obsolete MAP_DENYWRITE

mount.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        ERRORS: add EBUSY for the case of trying to stack same mount twice
    Michael Kerrisk
        Remove a couple of obsolete EBUSY errors
            As far as I can tell, these EBUSY errors disappeared
            with the addition of stackable mounts in Linux 2.4.

msgget.2
semget.2
shmget.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        The purpose of "flags" == 0 is to obtain ID of an existing IPC object
            This was implied in these pages, but the meaning of "flags" == 0
            could be more explicit, as indicated by questions such as
            https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49833569/flag-value-of-semget-function

open.2
    Jann Horn
        Document more -ETXTBSY conditions
    Jakub Wilk
        Add missing argument for snprintf() in example code

perf_event_open.2
    Song Liu
        Add type kprobe and uprobe
            Two new types kprobe and uprobe are being added to
            perf_event_open(), which allow creating kprobe or
            uprobe with perf_event_open. This patch adds
            information about these types.

ptrace.2
    Jann Horn
        Copy retval info for SECCOMP_GET_FILTER to right section
            The "RETURN VALUE" section made a claim that was incorrect for
            PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER. Explicitly describe the behavior of
            PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER in the "RETURN VALUE" section (as
            usual), but leave the now duplicate description in the section
            describing PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, since the
            PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER section would otherwise probably become
            harder to understand.

readv.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Remove redundant sentence

seccomp.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Note that execve() may change syscall numbers during life of process
            On a multiarch/multi-ABI platform such as modern x86, each
            architecture/ABI (x86-64, x32, i386)has its own syscall numbers,
            which means a seccomp() filter may see different syscall numbers
            over the life of the process if that process uses execve() to
            execute programs that has a different architectures/ABIs.
    Michael Kerrisk
        Note which architectures support seccomp BPF
    Michael Kerrisk
        In EXAMPLE, clearly note that x32 syscalls are >= X32_SYSCALL_BIT

shutdown.2
    Carsten Grohmann
        SEE ALSO: add close(2)

syscall.2
    Adam Borowski
        Add riscv

wait.2
    Michael Kerrisk  [Robin Kuzmin]
        wait() and waitpid() block the calling thread (not process)

wait4.2
    Michael Kerrisk  [Martin Mares]
        Soften the warning against the use of wait3()/wait4()
            These functions are nonstandard, but there is no replacement.

            See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199215

crypt.3
encrypt.3
    Carlos O'Donell  [Michael Kerrisk]
        Add notes about _XOPEN_CRYPT
            The distribution may choose not to support _XOPEN_CRYPT in the
            case that the distribution has transitioned from glibc crypt to
            libxcrypt.

fseek.3
    Michael Kerrisk  [Andy Owen]
        ERRORS: EBADF should be ESPIPE
    Michael Kerrisk
        Improve EPIPE error text

getcwd.3
    Carlos O'Donell
        Mention that "(unreachable)" is no longer returned for glibc >= 2.27.

makedev.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        Since glibc 2.28, <sys/types.h> no longer defines these macros

pthread_create.3
    Frederic Brault
        Note default thread stack size for several architectures

tsearch.3
    Jann Horn
        Clarify items vs nodes
            The manpage claimed that tsearch() returns a pointer to a data
            item. This is incorrect; tsearch() returns a pointer to the
            corresponding tree node, which can also be interpreted as a
            pointer to a pointer to the data item.

            Since this API is quite unintuitive, also add a clarifying
            sentence.
    Jann Horn
        tdelete() can return dangling pointers
            POSIX says that deleting the root node must cause tdelete() to
            return some unspecified non-NULL pointer. Glibc implements it by
            returning a dangling pointer to the (freed) root node.
            Therefore, explicitly note that tdelete() may return bad pointers
            that must not be accessed.

elf.5
    Michael Kerrisk
        SEE ALSO: add patchelf(1)

filesystems.5
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add an entry for tmpfs(5)

group.5
    Michael Kerrisk
        SEE ALSO: add vigr(8)

passwd.5
    Michael Kerrisk
        SEE ALSO: add vipw(8)

sysfs.5
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add brief note on /sys/fs/smackfs

tmpfs.5
    Mike Frysinger
        Document current mount options
            Some of this content is moved from the mount(8) man page.
            Style was based on proc(5) sections.
    Michael Kerrisk
        Remove reference to mount(8) for discussion of mount options
            The mount options are now described in this page.
    Michael Kerrisk
        SEE ALSO: add Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt
    Michael Kerrisk
        Reformat 'huge' and 'mpol' mount option values as lists
    Michael Kerrisk
        Describe 'mpol' mount options
            Based on text from Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt.
    Michael Kerrisk
        Document 'huge' mount options
            Based on text from Documentation/vm/transhuge.txt.
    Michael Kerrisk
        SEE ALSO: add set_mempolicy(2)
    Michael Kerrisk
        Document mpol=local mount option

capabilities.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        Remove redundant mention of PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER

cgroups.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        cgroup.events transitions generate POLLERR as well as POLLPRI

mount_namespaces.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        Note another case where shared "peer groups" are formed

namespaces.7
    Michael Kerrisk  [Konstantin Khlebnikov]
        Mention that device ID should also be checked when comparing NS symlinks
            When comparing two namespaces symlinks to see if they refer to
            the same namespace, both the inode number and the device ID
            should be compared. This point was already made clear in
            ioctl_ns(2), but was missing from this page.
    Michael Kerrisk
        Note an idiosyncrasy of /proc/[pid]/ns/pid_for_children
            /proc/[pid]/ns/pid_for_children has a value only after first
            child is created in PID namespace. Verified by experiment.

network_namespaces.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        Network namespaces isolate the UNIX domain abstract socket namespace
    Michael Kerrisk
        Add cross reference to unix(7)
            For further information on UNIX domain abstract sockets.

posixoptions.7
    Carlos O'Donell
        Expand XSI Options groups
            We define in detail the X/Open System Interfaces i.e. _XOPEN_UNIX
            and all of the X/Open System Interfaces (XSI) Options Groups.

            The XSI options groups include encryption, realtime, advanced
            realtime, realtime threads, advanced realtime threads, tracing,
            streams, and legacy interfaces.
    Michael Kerrisk
        Use a more consistent, less cluttered layout for option lists
    Michael Kerrisk
        Make function lists more consistent and less cluttered
            Use more consistent layout for lists of functions, and
            remove punctuation from the lists to make them less cluttered.

socket.7
    Michael Kerrisk  [Tomi Salminen]
        Fix error in SO_INCOMING_CPU code snippet
            The last argument is passed by value, not reference.

time.7
    Michael Kerrisk  [Enrique Garcia]
        Mention clock_gettime()/clock_settime() rather than [gs]ettimeofday()
            gettimeofday() is declared obsolete by POSIX. Mention instead
            the modern APIs for working with the realtime clock.

            See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199049

unix.7
    Michael Kerrisk  [Rusty Russell]
        ERRORS: add EBADF for sending closed file descriptor with SCM_RIGHTS

vdso.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        VDSO symbols (system calls) are not visible to seccomp(2) filters

xattr.7
    Michael Kerrisk
        SEE ALSO: add selinux(8)

ld.so.8
    Mike Frysinger
        Make lack of separator escaping explicit
            Make it clear that the delimiters in LD_PRELOAD, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
            and LD_AUDIT cannot be escaped so people don't try various methods
            (such as \:) to workaround it.
    Michael Kerrisk
        Remove unneeded mention of PATH in discussion of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
            This brief sentence doesn't add value to the text.