man-pages-5.10 is released
From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Date: Tue Dec 22 2020 - 05:21:15 EST
Gidday,
For this release, Alejandro (Alex) Colomar has joined me
as a comaintainer and we are proud to announce:
man-pages-5.10 - man pages for Linux
This release resulted from patches, bug reports, reviews, and
comments from around 25 contributors. The release includes
just over 150 commits that changed around 140 pages.
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_5.10
A short summary of the release is blogged at:
https://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2020/12/man-pages-510-is-released.html
The current version of the pages is browsable at:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/
A selection of changes in this release that may be of interest
to readers of LKML is shown below.
Cheers,
Michael
==================== Changes in man-pages-5.10 ====================
Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
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access.2
Michael Kerrisk
Document faccessat2()
faccessat2() was added in Linux 5.8 and enables a fix to
longstanding bugs in the faccessat() wrapper function.
membarrier.2
Peter Oskolkov [Alejandro Colomar]
Update for Linux 5.10
Linux kernel commit 2a36ab717e8fe678d98f81c14a0b124712719840
(part of 5.10 release) changed sys_membarrier prototype/parameters
and added two new commands [MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ
and MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED_RSEQ].
mount.2
statfs.2
Ross Zwisler
Add NOSYMFOLLOW flags to mount(2) and statfs(2)
Changes to individual pages
---------------------------
cacheflush.2
Alejandro Colomar
Document Architecture-specific variants
Alejandro Colomar [Heinrich Schuchardt]
Document __builtin___clear_cache() as a more portable alternative
clone.2
sigaltstack.2
Michael Kerrisk
clone(CLONE_VM) disables the alternate signal stack
mmap.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify SIGBUS text and treatment of partial page at end of a mapping
perf_event_open.2
Namhyung Kim [Alejandro Colomar]
Update man page with recent kernel changes
sigaltstack.2
Michael Kerrisk
Clarify that the alternate signal stack is per-thread
timer_getoverrun.2
Michael Kerrisk
timer_getoverrun() now clamps the overrun count to DELAYTIMER_MAX
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12665.
uselib.2
posix_memalign.3
profil.3
rtime.3
Michael Kerrisk
Remove some text about libc/libc5
With this change, there remain almost no vestiges of information
about the long defunct Linux libc.
signal.7
Michael Kerrisk [Heinrich Schuchardt, Dave Martin]
Add some details on the execution of signal handlers
Add a "big picture" of what happens when a signal handler
is invoked.
tcp.7
Alejandro Colomar [Philip Rowlands]
tcp_syncookies: It is now an integer [0, 2]
Since Linux kernel 3.12, tcp_syncookies can have the value 2,
which sends out cookies unconditionally.
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/