From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753986Ab3BCXEL (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2013 18:04:11 -0500 Received: from mail-oa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.219.53]:50970 "EHLO mail-oa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753858Ab3BCXEJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Feb 2013 18:04:09 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 00:03:48 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: man-pages-3.46 is released To: lkml Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Gidday, I've released man-pages-3.46 - man pages for Linux. Tarball download: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/download.html Git repository: http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git Online changelog: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html#release_3.46 A short summary of the release is blogged at: http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2013/02/man-pages-346-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-3.46 ==================== New and rewritten pages ----------------------- kcmp.2 Cyrill Gorcunov, Michael Kerrisk New page for kcmp(2) Newly documented interfaces in existing pages --------------------------------------------- init_module.2 Michael Kerrisk [Kees Cook, Rusty Russell, Lucas De Marchi] Document finit_module(2) Rusty Russell [Lucas De Marchi, Kees Cook] Document finit_module() 'flags' argument Document MODULE_INIT_IGNORE_MODVERSIONS and MODULE_INIT_IGNORE_VERMAGIC. (Some edits by mtk.) Changes to individual pages --------------------------- clone.2 Michael Kerrisk CLONE_NEWIPC governs mechanisms that don't have filesystem pathnames Michael Kerrisk CLONE_NEWIPC doesn't mount the POSIX MQ file system Michael Kerrisk Add an example program (CLONE_NEWUTS) link.2 prctl.2 Kees Cook Document PR_SET_PTRACER Document the Yama LSM's prctl handler that allows processes to declare ptrace restriction exception relationships via PR_SET_PTRACER. Michael Kerrisk Document PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS ptrace.2 Michael Kerrisk Document PTRACE_O_EXITKILL recvmmsg.2 Elie De Brauwer Add an example program setns.2 Michael Kerrisk Add example program core.5 proc.5 Kees Cook Clarify suid_dumpable versus core_pattern In Linux 3.6, additional requirements were placed on core_pattern when suid_dumpable is set to 2. Document this and include commit references. proc.5 Justin Lebar statm's "shared" field refers to pages backed by files Kees Cook Document /proc/sys/kernel/dmesg_restrict Kees Cook Linux 3.4 changed permissions needed to change kptr_restrict Michael Kerrisk Document /proc/stat "cpu" "nice_guest" field Info taken from commit ce0e7b28fb75cb003cfc8d0238613aaf1c55e797 Michael Kerrisk [Peter Lekeynstein] Document /prod/[pid]/oom_score_adj Text taken directly from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt, with some light editing. capabilities.7 Michael Kerrisk Add kcmp(2) under CAP_SYS_PTRACE -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/