Gidday,
The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:
man-pages-3.77 - 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_3.77
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/01/man-pages-377-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-3.77 ====================
New and rewritten pages
-----------------------
seccomp.2
Kees Cook, Michael Kerrisk, Will Drewry [Andy Lutomirski]
New page documenting seccomp(2)
Combines documentation from prctl, in-kernel seccomp_filter.txt
and dropper.c, along with details specific to the new system call.
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------
netlink.7
Stephan Mueller [Michael Kerrisk]
Add NETLINK_CRYPTO
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
perf_event_open.2
Vince Weaver
Clarify the PERF_FLAG_FD_* flags
This change clarifies the behavior of the PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT and
PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP flags to perf_event_open(), and removes
the related FIXME comments.
While writing tests to validate the behavior of these flags I
discovered that PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT has been broken since the
2.6.35 kernel release.
prctl.2
Dave Hansen [Michael Kerrisk]
Add description of Intel MPX calls
The 3.19 kernel will have support for Intel MPX, including
a pair of new prctl() calls (PR_MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT and
PR_MPX_DISABLE_MANAGEMENT) for enabling and disabling the
kernel's management of the "bounds tables". Add a
descriptions of the interface.
setns.2
pid_namespaces.7
Mike Frysinger
Elaborate discussion of the PID namespace descendant limitation
The setns(2) man page already mentions that CLONE_NEWPID may only
be used with descendant namespaces, but this nuance could be
listed in a few more places so it is not missed.
sigaction.2
Michael Kerrisk
Add siginfo_t fields for SECCOMP_RET_TRAP
random.4
Heinrich Schuchardt
Describe handling of O_NONBLOCK
/dev/random and /dev/urandom treat O_NONBLOCK differently.
This should be described in the manpage.
Heinrich Schuchardt
Mention PRNG used by urandom
/dev/urandom uses a pseudo-random number generator to replace
missing entropy.
proc.5
Michael Kerrisk
Document "Seccomp" field of /proc/PID/status
tcp.7
Troy Davis
Clarify tcp_tw_recycle on Internet-facing hosts
Clarify that tcp_tw_recycle will break communication with many
general-purpose remote Internet hosts (namely, remote NAT devices)
even when the Linux device itself is not behind NAT.
--
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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