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man-pages-5.08 - man pages for Linux This release resulted from patches, bug reports, reviews, and comments from more than 30 people, with over 190 commits making changes to more than 340 pages. 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_5.08 A short summary of the release is blogged at: https://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2020/08/man-pages-508-is-released.html The current version of the pages is browsable at: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/ A selection of changes in this release that may be of interest to readers of LKML is shown below. Cheers, Michael ==================== Changes in man-pages-5.08 ==================== Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- prctl.2 Dave Martin Add SVE prctls (arm64) Add documentation for the the PR_SVE_SET_VL and PR_SVE_GET_VL prctls added in Linux 4.15 for arm64. Dave Martin [Catalin Marinas] Add tagged address ABI control prctls (arm64) Add documentation for the the PR_SET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL and PR_GET_TAGGED_ADDR_CTRL prctls added in Linux 5.4 for arm64. setns.2 Michael Kerrisk Document the use of PID file descriptors with setns() Starting with Linux 5.8, setns() can take a PID file descriptor as an argument, and move the caller into or more of the namespaces of the thread referred to by that descriptor. capabilities.7 Michael Kerrisk Document CAP_BPF Michael Kerrisk Add CAP_PERFMON symlink.7 Aleksa Sarai Document magic links more completely Changes to individual pages --------------------------- iopl.2 Thomas Piekarski [victorm...@yahoo.com] Updating description of permissions and disabling interrupts Update description of permissions for port-mapped I/O set per-thread and not per-process. Mention that iopl() can not disable interrupts since Linux 5.5 anymore and is in general deprecated and only provided for legacy X servers. See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205317 pidfd_open.2 Michael Kerrisk Add the setns(2) use case for PID file descriptors prctl.2 Michael Kerrisk The parent death signal is cleared on some credential changes See kernel/cred.c::commit_creds() in the Linux 5.6 source code. seccomp.2 Andy Lutomirski Improve x32 and nr truncation notes sync.2 Jeff Layton syncfs() now returns errors if writeback fails capabilities.7 Saikiran Madugula CAP_SYS_RESOURCE: add two more items for POSIX message queues CAP_SYS_RESOURCE also allows overriding /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msg_max and /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msgsize_max. ld.so.8 Florian Weimer [Michael Kerrisk] List more places in which dynamic string tokens are expanded This happens for more than just DT_RPATH/DT_RUNPATH. Arkadiusz Drabczyk Explain that empty entry in LD_LIBRARY_PATH means cwd -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/