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==================== Changes in man-pages-3.44 ====================
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2007-09-19 21:40:03 +00:00
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2012-11-07 13:24:36 +00:00
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Released: 2012-11-07, Barcelona
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2007-09-19 21:40:03 +00:00
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2007-11-24 13:50:54 +00:00
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Contributors
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2007-10-23 11:33:49 +00:00
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2011-09-16 02:56:20 +00:00
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The following people contributed patches/fixes or (noted in brackets
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2012-03-05 20:07:17 +00:00
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in the changelog below) reports, notes, and ideas that have been
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2011-09-16 02:56:20 +00:00
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incorporated in changes in this release:
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2007-09-20 18:15:23 +00:00
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2012-11-07 13:19:25 +00:00
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Bert Hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>
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David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
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James Youngman <jay@gnu.org>
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Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi>
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Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
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Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.se>
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2008-10-07 08:54:13 +00:00
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2007-11-24 13:50:54 +00:00
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Apologies if I missed anyone!
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2007-11-24 10:49:28 +00:00
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2010-09-05 16:04:17 +00:00
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2012-10-15 09:20:00 +00:00
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New and rewritten pages
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2012-11-07 13:19:25 +00:00
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delete_module.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Rewrite to Linux 2.6+ reality
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Michael Kerrisk
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Change license and copyright
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There is now nothing left of the original FSF-copyrighted
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page. So, change the copyright and license.
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Michael Kerrisk [Lucas De Marchi, Rusty Russell]
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Substantial reorganization after comments from Rusty Russell
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Rusty notes that O_NONBLOCK is almost always used in
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practice. Therefore, it would be better to reorganize
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the page to consider that "the default".
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init_module.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Rewrite to Linux 2.6+ reality
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Michael Kerrisk
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Change copyright and license
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Little of the original page now remains. Change
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copyright and license
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Michael Kerrisk [Rusty Russell]
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Changes after review comments from Rusty Russell
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Kees Cook
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Add various pieces describing Linux 2.6+ behavior
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Pieces take from, or inspired by, a patch sent by Kees.
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getauxval.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document getauxval() function added in glibc 2.16
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2012-08-13 22:29:05 +00:00
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2012-08-13 22:46:52 +00:00
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Global changes
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Various pages
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Michael Kerrisk
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Global fix: Use consistent capitalization in NAME section
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The line(s) in the NAME section should only use capitals
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where English usage dictates that. Otherwise, use
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lowercase throughout.
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Various pages
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Michael Kerrisk
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Global fix: "userspace" ==> "user space" or "user-space"
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Existing pages variously use "userspace or "user space".
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But, "userspace" is not quite an English word.
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So change "userspace" to "user space" or, when used
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attributively, "user-space".
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2012-08-13 22:29:05 +00:00
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2012-08-13 22:46:52 +00:00
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Changes to individual pages
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clock_getres.2
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clock_nanosleep.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Linking with -lrt is no longer needed from glibc 2.17 onward
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create_module.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Note that this system call is present only in kernels before 2.6
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Michael Kerrisk
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Note that ENOSYS probably indicates kernel 2.6+
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execve.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document treatment of PR_SET_PDEATHSIG on execve()
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document treatment of SECBIT_KEEP_CAPS securebits flag on execve()
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fork.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Note treatment of default timer slack value on fork()
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getdomainname.2
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Simon Paillard [Lars Wirzenius]
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Point out that these calls relate to NIS, not DNS
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See http://bugs.debian.org/295635
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get_kernel_syms.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Note that this system call is present only in kernels before 2.6
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ipc.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Update note on architectures that don't have ipc()
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Replace mention of ia64 with x86-64 and ARM.
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link.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Add EPERM error triggered by /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlink
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prctl.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Mention Documentation/prctl/no_new_privs.txt for PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS
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Kees Cook
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update seccomp sections for mode 2 (BPF)
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This adds a short summary of the arguments used
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for "mode 2" (BPF) seccomp.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Small improvements to PR_SET_SECCOMP discussion
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Note type of 'arg3' for SECCOMP_MODE_FILTER.
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Add pointer to Documentation/prctl/seccomp_filter.txt.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Note 'seccomp' semantics with respect to fork(), execve(), and prctl()
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document PR_SET_TIMERSLACK and PR_GET_TIMERSLACK
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Michael Kerrisk
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Reword PR_SET_NAME and PR_GET_NAME in terms of threads
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Plus tfix
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Kees Cook
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document PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, PR_GET_NO_NEW_PRIVS
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This adds a short description of the no_new_privs bit,
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as described in Documentation/prctl/no_new_privs.txt.
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ptrace.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Clarify that some operations are not present on all architectures
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PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETGREFS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS,
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and PTRACE_GETSPREGS are not present on all architectures.
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PTRACE_SYSEMU and PTRACE_SYSEMU_SINGLESTEP are present only
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on x86.
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=122383
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query_module.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Add a few words clarifying reference to /sys/module
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Michael Kerrisk
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Note that this system call is present only in kernels before 2.6
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Michael Kerrisk
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Note that ENOSYS probably indicates kernel 2.6+
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: Add modinfo(8) and lsinfo(8)
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Michael Kerrisk
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Move some information in NOTES to VERSIONS
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socketcall.2
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Michael Kerrisk
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Update note on architectures that don't have socketcall()
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Replace mention of ia64 with x86-64 and ARM.
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times.2
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Thomas Habets
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Recommend clock_gettime(2) as alternative to times(2)
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clock_getcpuclockid.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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Linking with -lrt is no longer needed from glibc 2.17 onward
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fts.3
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Simon Paillard [James Youngman]
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Improve description of physical vs. logical tree walking
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See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633505
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getenv.3
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: add getauxval(3)
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proc.5
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Michael Kerrisk
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Document /proc/meminfo
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Info mostly taken from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
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and Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Default for /proc/sys/fs/protected_{hardlinks,symlinks} is now 0
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The default setting of 1 in/proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks
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and /proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks caused one too many
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breakages for Linus's taste, so commit 561ec64ae67e changed
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the default for both files to 0.
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Note system call error yielded by /proc/sys/fs/protected_symlinks
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Note that violating 'protected_symlinks' restrictions
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causes system calls to fail with the error EACCES.
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Michael Kerrisk
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Since Linux 2.6.27, /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe depends on CONFIG_MODULES
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ipv6.7
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Bert Hubert
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Document IPV6_RECVPKTINFO
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man-pages.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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Note rules for capitalization in NAME section
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time.7
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Michael Kerrisk
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Add a subsection on timer slack
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ld.so.8
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Michael Kerrisk
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SEE ALSO: add getauxval(3)
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