1 ==================== Changes in man-pages-3.65 ====================
3 Released: 2014-04-20, Munich
9 The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
10 in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
11 incorporated in changes in this release:
13 Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
14 Ashish Sangwan <a.sangwan@samsung.com>
15 Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>
16 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
17 Craig McQueen <craig.mcqueen@beamcommunications.com>
18 Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
19 David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
20 Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
21 Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@chromium.org>
22 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
23 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
24 Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
25 Peng Haitao <penght@cn.fujitsu.com>
26 Petr Gajdos <pgajdos@suse.cz>
27 Richard Hansen <rhansen@bbn.com>
28 Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
29 Steven Stewart-Gallus <sstewartgallus00@mylangara.bc.ca>
30 Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
31 Yuri Kozlov <yuray@komyakino.ru>
33 Apologies if I missed anyone!
36 New and rewritten pages
37 -----------------------
41 New page describing inet_net_pton(3) and inet_net_ntop(3)
44 Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
45 ---------------------------------------------
48 Michael Kerrisk, Namjae Jeon [Christoph Hellwig, Dave Chinner]
49 Document FALLOC_FL_COLLAPSE_RANGE
52 Michael Kerrisk [Alex Thorlton]
53 Document PR_SET_THP_DISABLE and PR_GET_THP_DISABLE
57 Document /proc/[pid]/stack
59 Document /proc/[pid]/clear_refs
67 New link to new inet_net_pton.3
70 Changes to individual pages
71 ---------------------------
75 Note the race when O_CLOEXEC is used at same time as fork()+execve()
79 SEE ALSO: see prctl(2)
80 Because of PR_SET_THP_DISABLE.
84 Describe treatment of MCL_FUTURE during fork(2) and execve(2)
87 Michael Kerrisk [Richard Hansen, Greg Troxel]
88 Warn that one of MS_SYNC or MS_ASYNC is required
92 Add more detail on the race that O_CLOEXEC is designed to avoid
93 Michael Kerrisk [Matthew Dempsky]
94 Remove crufty text stating that O_DIRECTORY is Linux-specific
96 Note which filesystems support O_TMPFILE
99 Vince Weaver [Michael Kerrisk]
100 Clarify EACCES and EPERM errors
101 Clarify the reasons for EACCES and EPERM errors.
102 Vince Weaver [Michael Kerrisk]
103 Make the ERRORS section more comprehensive.
104 Determined both by code inspection and by writing a large
105 number of test programs.
109 Available execution domains are listed in <sys/personality.h>
111 Fix discussion of return value
115 ERRORS: document EINVAL for PR_GET_NO_NEW_PRIVS
116 ERRORS: document EINVAL for PR_SET_PDEATHSIG
117 ERRORS: document EINVAL for PR_SET_TIMING
118 ERRORS: document EINVAL for PR_SET_DUMPABLE
119 ERRORS: document EINVAL for PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS
123 Rewrite description of SHMMNI default value
125 Note default value of SHMMAX
126 Note default value for SHMALL
130 ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
131 The functions htonl(), htons(), ntohl() and ntohs() are thread
135 Michael Kerrisk [Steven Stewart-Gallus]
136 If 'fd' is a close-on-exec file descriptor for a script, fexecve() fails
137 See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74481
141 ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
142 The functions ffs(), ffsl() and ffsll() are thread safe.
146 ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
147 The function getauxval() is thread safe.
151 ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
152 The functions getcontext() and setcontext() are thread safe.
156 ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread-safe
157 The function getsubopt() is thread safe.
161 ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
162 The functions getutmp() and getutmpx() are thread safe.
166 Note success and error return for inet_aton()
169 Michael Kerrisk [Craig McQueen]
170 The form 'a.b' if is suitable for Class A addresses (not class C)
172 SEE ALSO: add inet_net_pton(3)
176 ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
177 The functions makecontext() and swapcontext() are thread safe.
179 pthread_attr_setdetachstate.3
181 ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
182 The functions pthread_attr_setdetachstate() and
183 pthread_attr_getdetachstate() are thread safe.
185 pthread_attr_setguardsize.3
187 ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
188 The functions pthread_attr_setguardsize() and
189 pthread_attr_getguardsize() are thread safe.
193 ATTRIBUTES: Note functions that are thread-safe
194 The functions sigemptyset(), sigfillset(), sigaddset(),
195 sigdelset(), sigismember(), sigisemptyset(), sigorset() and
196 sigandset() are thread safe.
200 Improve /proc/[pid]/smaps entries description
202 /proc/PID/smaps is present only if CONFIG_PROC_PAGE_MONITOR
204 Note kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/{shmall,shmmax}
206 Note kernel version for /proc/sys/kernel/{msgmax,msgmnb}
210 SEE ALSO: add capsh(1)