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man-pages-3.83 - 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_3.82 A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/04/man-pages-383-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-3.83 ==================== New and rewritten pages ----------------------- posix_madvise.3 Michael Kerrisk New page documenting posix_madvise(3) ftw.3 Michael Kerrisk Reorganize the page to give primacy to nftw() nftw() is the better API, and POSIX.1-2008 marks ftw() obsolete. Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- getdents.2 Michael Kerrisk [Dima Tisnek] Document getdents64() See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14795 mount.2 Michael Kerrisk, Theodore Ts'o [Eric Sandeen, Andreas Dilger, Omar Sandoval, Darrick J. Wong] Document MS_LAZYTIME proc.5 Michael Kerrisk Document /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space Michael Kerrisk Document /proc/PID/fdinfo epoll format Michael Kerrisk Describe /proc/PID/fdinfo eventfd format Michael Kerrisk Document /proc/PID/fdinfo signalfd format Changes to individual pages --------------------------- getrlimit.2 Michael Kerrisk Note that the underlying system call for prlimit() is prlimit64() ioctl_list.2 Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos SIOCADDRT accepts in6_rtmsg in INET6 protocol Heinrich Schuchardt TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS timerfd_create.2 mentions TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS. We should add it to ioctl_list.2, too. llseek.2 Michael Kerrisk Advise reader to use lseek(2) instead Michael Kerrisk llseek() exists on 32-bit platforms to support seeking to large offsets madvise.2 David Rientjes Specify MADV_REMOVE returns EINVAL for hugetlbfs madvise(2) actually returns with error EINVAL for MADV_REMOVE when used for hugetlb VMAs, not EOPNOTSUPP, and this has been the case since MADV_REMOVE was introduced in commit f6b3ec238d12 ("madvise(MADV_REMOVE): remove pages from tmpfs shm backing store"). Specify the exact behavior. posix_fadvise.2 Michael Kerrisk Add "C library/kernel ABI differences" subsection pread.2 Michael Kerrisk Add "C library/kernel ABI differences" subsection stat.2 Michael Kerrisk Add some details on various "stat" versions Three versions of "stat" appeared on 32-bit systems, dealing with structures of different (increasing) sizes. Explain some of the details, and also note that the situation is simpler on modern 64-bit architectures. timerfd_create.2 Cyrill Gorcunov [Michael Kerrisk] Document TFD_IOC_SET_TICKS ioctl() operation proc.5 Michael Kerrisk Describe "mnt_id" field of /proc/PID/fdinfo Michael Kerrisk Note that abstract sockets are included in /proc/net/unix Michael Kerrisk [Vlastimil Babka] Enhance discussion of /proc/PID/status 'VmSwap' field icmp.7 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki/吉藤英明 Document net.ipv4.ping_group_range knob -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/