Gidday,
The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-3.78 - 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_3.78
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/01/man-pages-378-is-released.html
A selection of changes in this release that may be interesting
for readers of this list is shown below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-3.78 ====================
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
execveat.2
David Drysdale, Michael Kerrisk [Rich Felker]
New page for execveat(2)
memfd_create.2
Michael Kerrisk, David Herrmann
New page for memfd_create() system call
Including notes about file sealing
s390_pci_mmio_write.2
Alexey Ishchuk
New page for s390 s390_pci_mmio_write() and s390_pci_mmio_read()
New manual page for the new PCI MMIO memory access system
calls, s390_pci_mmio_write() and s390_pci_mmio_read(),
added for the s390 platform.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
fcntl.2
David Herrmann [Michael Kerrisk]
Document F_ADD_SEALS and F_GET_SEALS commands
proc.5
Elie De Brauwer
Document /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
Michael Kerrisk
Document /proc/sys/fs/nr_open
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver
Clarify description of overflow events
Update the perf_event_open manpage to be more consistent when
discussing overflow events. It merges the discussion of
poll-type notifications with those generated by SIGIO
signal handlers.
This addresses the remaining FIXMEs is the document.
Vince Weaver
Remove inaccurate paragraph describing attr.config
Remove an inaccurate paragraph about values in the attr.config
field. This information was never true in any released kernel;
it somehow snuck into the manpage because it is still described
this way in tools/perf/design.txt in the kernel source tree.
ptrace.2
sigaction.2
seccomp.2
Kees Cook
Ptrace and siginfo details
While writing some additional seccomp tests, I realized
PTRACE_EVENT_SECCOMP wasn't documented yet. Fixed this, and added
additional notes related to ptrace events SIGTRAP details.
readv.2
Michael Kerrisk
Update details on glibc readv()/writev() wrapper behavior
And add a historical detail about Linux 2.0.
syscall.2
Kees Cook
Add arm64 and mips
Add mips and arm64 to tables, along with some further
details on these architectures,
fexecve.3
Michael Kerrisk
Rewrite the script+close-on-exec problem as a BUG
Also, add one or two details about this scenario.
Michael Kerrisk
The natural idiom when using fexecve() is to use the close-on-exec flag
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Michael Kerrisk
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Michael Kerrisk
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Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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