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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 21:55:14 +0100
From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC: mtk.manpages@...il.com
Subject: man-pages-3.61 is released
Gidday,
I've released man-pages-3.61 - man pages for Linux.
Tarball download:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html
Git repository:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/
Online changelog:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.61
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2014/02/man-pages-361-is-released.html
The current version of the pages is browsable at:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
A few changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of
this list are given below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.61 ====================
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
A note from Christoph Hellwig prompted me to perform a task that has
been queued for a while: merging the text of the man pages for the
*at([23]) ("directory file descriptor") APIs into their corresponding
traditional pages. When the *at([23]) pages were originally written
(mostly in 2006), the APIs were not part of POSIX and (in most cases)
were not available on other systems. So, it made some sense to wall
them off into their own separate pages. Eight years later, with the
APIs now all in POSIX (except scandirat()), it is much more sensible
to document the newer APIs alongside their traditional counterparts,
so that the newer APIs are not "hidden", and the reader can more
easily see the differences between the APIs.
Thus, the text of 14 pairs of pages has been merged, and the "merged
from" pages have been converted to links to the "merged to" pages.
Along the way, a few other fixes were made to the pages, as noted
below.
One page that did not undergo such a change was utimensat(2), which
is different enough from utime(2) that it warrants a separate page.
Unlike the other *at() pages, the utimensat(2) page was also already
self-contained, rather than defining itself in terms of differences
from utime(2) as the other *at() pages did.
access.2
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text from faccessat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Remove faccessat() race warning
That point is already covered in existing text in this page.
Michael Kerrisk
access() also conforms to POSIX.1-2008
chmod.2
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text from fchmodat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Use argument name 'pathname' throughout page
(Some APIs were using 'path' while others used 'pathname')
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: chmod() and fchmod() are also in POSIX.1-2008
chown.2
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text of fchownat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
AT_EMPTY_PATH is Linux-specific and requires _GNU_SOURCE
Michael Kerrisk
Use argument name 'pathname' throughout page
(Some APIs were using 'path' while others used 'pathname')
Michael Kerrisk
Remove sentence that fchownat() is present on Solaris
That point was only really relevant before fchownat() was
standardized in POSIX.1.2008.
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: chown(), fchown(), lchown() are in POSIX.1-2008
link.2
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text of linkat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: link() is in POSIX.1-2008
Michael Kerrisk
AT_EMPTY_PATH is Linux-specific and requires _GNU_SOURCE
mkdir.2
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text of mkdirat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: mkdir() is in POSIX.1-2008
mknod.2
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text of mknodat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: mknod(2) is in POSIX.1-2008
open.2
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text from openat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Remove sentence that openat() is present on Solaris
That point was only really relevant before openat() was
standardized in POSIX.1.2008.
readlink.2
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text of readlinkat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: readlink() is in POSIX.1-2008.
Michael Kerrisk
Use argument name 'pathname' throughout page
(Some APIs were using 'path' while others used 'pathname')
rename.2
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text of renameat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: rename(2) is in POSIX.1-2008
stat.2
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text from fstatat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
AT_EMPTY_PATH and AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT are Linux-specific
These flags require _GNU_SOURCE.
Michael Kerrisk
Use argument name 'pathname' throughout page
(Some APIs were using 'path' while others used 'pathname')
Michael Kerrisk
Remove sentence that fstatat() is present on Solaris
That point was only really relevant before fstatat() was
standardized in POSIX.1.2008.
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: stat(), fstat(), lstat() are specified in POSIX.1-2008
symlink.2
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text of symlinkat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: symlink() is in POSIX.1-2008
unlink.2
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text of unlinkat(2)
Michael Kerrisk
Remove sentence that unlinkat() is present on Solaris
That point was only really relevant before unlinkat() was
standardized in POSIX.1.2008.
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: unlink() is in POSIX.1-2008
mkfifo.3
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text of mkfifoat(3)
Michael Kerrisk
CONFORMING TO: mkfifo() is in POSIX.1-2008
scandir.3
Michael Kerrisk
Merge text of scandirat(3)
Michael Kerrisk
Update feature test macro requirements
The FTM requirements changed in glibc 2.10.
Michael Kerrisk
Remove libc4/libc5 note under CONFORMING TO
No-one much cares about Linux libc these days.
Michael Kerrisk
Put detail about alphasort under a NOTES heading
This text was under CONFORMING TO, which made no sense.
Michael Kerrisk
Rework CONFORMING TO text
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
prctl.2
Kir Kolyshkin
Document PR_SET_MM options in Linux 3.5
Some of the PR_SET_MM options were merged to vanilla kernel
later, and appeared in Linux 3.5. Those are:
- PR_SET_MM_ARG_START
- PR_SET_MM_ARG_END
- PR_SET_MM_ENV_START
- PR_SET_MM_ENV_END
- PR_SET_MM_AUXV
- PR_SET_MM_EXE_FILE
socket.7
Neil Horman
Document the SO_RXQ_OVFL socket option
Michael Kerrisk
Add kernel version number for SO_RXQ_OVFL
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
alarm.2
Michael Kerrisk
Note semantics of alarm with respect to fork() and execve()
intro.2
Michael Kerrisk
Describe policy on documenting differences between syscall and glibc API
utime.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add note that modern applications probably want utimensat(2) etc.
getifaddrs.3
Michael Kerrisk
Enhance example program
Print statistics for AF_PACKET interfaces.
Add missing feature test macro definition.
Reformat output.
resolv.conf.5
Carlos O'Donell
DESCRIPTION: mention that the data is trusted
In a recent discussion about DNSSEC it was brought to my
attention that not all system administrators may understand
that the information in /etc/resolv.conf is fully trusted.
The resolver implementation in glibc treats /etc/resolv.conf
as a fully trusted source of DNS information and passes on
the AD-bit for DNSSEC as trusted.
This patch adds a clarifying sentence to make it absolutely
clear that indeed this source of information is trusted.
packet.7
Neil Horman
Document PACKET_FANOUT_QM fanout mode
Daniel Borkmann
Improve PACKET_QDISC_BYPASS description
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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