Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:34:46 +0200 | Subject | man-pages-3.04 is released | From | Michael Kerrisk <> |
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Gidday
I've released man-pages-3.04.
This release is now available for download at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
This release is now available for download at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages or ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages
The online changelog is available at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/changelog.html (blogged at http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2008/07/man-pages-304-is-released.html) and the current version of the pages is browsable at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
An abridged version of the changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of this list is provided below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.04 ====================
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 ---------------------------------------------
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).
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].
getrusage.2 Sripathi Kodi Document RUSAGE_THREAD, new in 2.6.26.
mount.2 mtk Since Linux 2.6.26, MS_RDONLY honors bind mounts.
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 Add description of PR_SET_SECUREBITS and PR_GET_SECUREBITS, as well as pointer to further info in capabilities(7).
sigaction.2 mtk Document si_overrun and si_tid fields of siginfo structure.
signal.2 mtk Rewrote and expanded portability discussion.
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.
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). 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.
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