Gidday,
I just released man-pages-2.41.
This release is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
or mirrors: ftp://ftp.XX.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
and soon at:
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages
Changes in this release that may be of interest to readers
of this list include the following:
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
brk.2
Evan Teran / mtk
Add text describing behaviour of the Linux brk() system call
and point out that the glibc brk() wrapper provides different
behaviour.
futex.2
mtk
FUTEX_FD is scheduled for removal in June 2007.
getaddrinfo.3
getnameinfo.3
Ulrich Drepper, with edits by mtk
Add text describing Internationalized Domain Name
extensions.
ptrace.2
Chuck Ebbert
Since Linux 2.6.18, the PID of the new process is also available
for PTRACE_EVENT_VFORKDONE.
core.5
mtk
Linux 2.4.21 added core_pattern (which was already in 2.6).
Noted a few more reasons why a core dump file might not
be produced.
Many things remain to be fixed -- help is appreciated. The list below
notes outstanding FIXMEs from section 2 of the manual pages.
Cheers,
Michael
==========
man2/epoll_wait.2
FIXME 2.6.19-rc5 has epoll_pwait(); this should be documented
on this page.
==========
man2/execve.2
FIXME add some statement about the effect on record locks (fcntl()).
==========
man2/fcntl.2
FIXME According to POSIX.1-2001, O_SYNC should also be modifiable
via fcntl(2), but currently Linux does not permit this
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5994
FIXME The statement that O_ASYNC can be used in open() does not
match reality; setting O_ASYNC via open() does not seem to be
effective.
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5993
FIXME Dec 04: some limited testing on alpha and ia64 seems to
indicate that ANY negative PGID value will cause F_GETOWN
to misinterpret the return as an error. Some other architectures
seem to have the same range check as x86. Must document
the reality on other architectures -- MTK
==========
man2/futex.2
FIXME
2.6.18 adds (Ingo Molnar) priority inheritance support:
FUTEX_LOCK_PI, FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI, and FUTEX_TRYLOCK_PI. These need
to be documented in the manual page. Probably there is sufficient
material in the kernel source file Documentation/pi-futex.txt.
==========
man2/get_mempolicy.2
FIXME writeme -- no errors are listed on this page
==========
man2/madvise.2
FIXME 2.6.16 added MADV_REMOVE, MADV_DONTFORK, and MADV_DOFORK.
These need to be documented.
MADV_DONTFORK /* don't inherit across fork */
MADV_DOFORK /* do inherit across fork */
A discussion of MADV_DONTFORK and MADV_DOFORK can be found
at http://lwn.net/Articles/171941/
==========
man2/mount.2
FIXME 2.6.15 added flags for "shared sub-tree" functionality:
MS_UNBINDABLE, MS_PRIVATE, MS_SHARED, MS_SLAVE
These need to be documented on this page.
See Documentation/sharedsubtree.txt
FIXME Say more about MS_MOVE
FIXME Document MS_REC, available since 2.4.11.
This flag has meaning in conjunction with MS_BIND and
also with the shared sub-tree flags.
FIXME Can MNT_FORCE result in data loss? According to
the Solaris manual page it can cause data loss on Solaris.
If the same holds on Linux, then this should be documented.
==========
man2/mprotect.2
FIXME
Document MAP_GROWSUP and MAP_GROWSDOWN
==========
man2/open.2
FIXME? The O_NOATIME flag also affects the treatment of st_atime
by mmap() and readdir(2), MTK, Dec 04.
FIXME Check bugzilla report on open(O_ASYNC)
See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5993
==========
man2/path_resolution.2
FIXME say something about filesystem mounted read-only ?
FIXME say something about immutable files
FIXME say something about ACLs
==========
man2/quotactl.2
FIXME There is much that is missing and/or out of date in this page.
As things stand the page more or less documents Linux 2.2 reality:
Linux 2.2 has:
Q_GETQUOTA
Q_GETSTATS
Q_QUOTAOFF
Q_QUOTAON
Q_RSQUASH (not currently documented)
Q_SETQLIM
Q_SETQUOTA
Q_SETUSE
Q_SYNC
Linux 2.4 has:
Q_COMP_QUOTAOFF
Q_COMP_QUOTAON
Q_COMP_SYNC
Q_GETFMT
Q_GETINFO
Q_GETQUOTA
Q_QUOTAOFF
Q_QUOTAON
Q_SETINFO
Q_SETQUOTA
Q_SYNC
Q_V1_GETQUOTA Q_V1_GETSTATS Q_V1_RSQUASH Q_V1_SETQLIM
Q_V1_SETQUOTA Q_V1_SETUSE
Q_V2_GETINFO Q_V2_GETQUOTA Q_V2_SETFLAGS Q_V2_SETGRACE
Q_V2_SETINFO Q_V2_SETQUOTA Q_V2_SETUSE
Q_XGETQSTAT Q_XGETQUOTA Q_XQUOTAOFF Q_XQUOTAON Q_XQUOTARM
Q_XSETQLIM
Linux 2.6.16 has:
Q_GETFMT
Q_GETINFO
Q_GETQUOTA
Q_QUOTAOFF
Q_QUOTAON
Q_SETINFO
Q_SETQUOTA
Q_SYNC
Q_XGETQSTAT
Q_XGETQUOTA
Q_XQUOTAOFF
Q_XQUOTAON
Q_XQUOTARM
Q_XQUOTASYNC
Q_XSETQLIM
==========
man2/select.2
FIXME select() (and pselect()?) also modify the timeout
on an EINTR error return; POSIX.1-2001 doesn't permit this.
==========
man2/send.2
FIXME? document MSG_PROXY (which went away in 2.3.15)
==========
man2/set_mempolicy.2
FIXME writeme -- no errors are listed on this page
==========
man2/shmop.2
FIXME What does "failing attach at brk" mean? (Is this phrase
just junk?)
FIXME A good explanation of the rationale for the existence
of SHMLBA would be useful here
FIXME That last sentence isn't true for all Linux
architectures (i.e., SHMLBA != PAGE_SIZE for some architectures)
-- MTK, Nov 04
--
Michael Kerrisk
maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/
read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'.
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