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Michael Kerrisk a7091d1326 s390_guarded_storage.2: Minor fixes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:55:59 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 6e5ba56745 s390_guarded_storage.2: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:55:59 +02:00
Eugene Syromyatnikov e21ddd0138 s390_guarded_storage.2: New page documenting s390_guarded_storage(2) s390-specific system call
* man2/s390_guarded_storage.2: New file.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:55:29 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 605e9d077b syscalls.2: Add s390_guarded_storage(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:54:07 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 3475e312ad s390_sthyi.2: Minor wording fix to Eugene's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:54:07 +02:00
Eugene Syromyatnikov b2c7f822c6 s390_sthyi.2: Some minor additions
* man2/s390_sthyi.2
  (.SH DESCRIPTION): Document the size of the resp_buffer when
    function_code is 0.
  (.SH NOTES): Document various aspects of the current
    implementation (the lifted requirement for the response buffer
    alignment, the presence of in-kernel cache), add description
    for the documentation URL.

Coauthored-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:54:07 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 03b3fa4a74 s390_runtime_instr.2: Minor tweaks to Eugene's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:54:07 +02:00
Eugene Syromyatnikov 447d895328 s390_runtime_instr.2: Add a note about runtime_instr.h availability
* man2/s390_runtime_instr.2 (.SH NOTES): Note the version of
  the Linux kernel since which asm/runtime_inster.h header
  is available.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:54:07 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c9a1d47758 set_thread_area.2: Minor tweaks to Eugene's patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:54:07 +02:00
Eugene Syromyatnikov 01fc1d8447 set_thread_area.2: Mention related prctl() requests in SEE ALSO
* man2/set_thread_area.2 (.SH SEE ALSO): Mention
  PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA and PTRACE_SET_THREAD_AREA prctl requests.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:54:07 +02:00
Eugene Syromyatnikov 49ea23a1ed set_thread_area.2: Mention that get_thread_area() is also Linux-specific
* man2/set_thread_area.2 (.SH CONFORMING): Add get_thread_area.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:54:07 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e7871dadf9 set_thread_area.2: Minor tweaks to Eugene's changes
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:54:07 +02:00
Eugene Syromyatnikov f7c3bc5ce6 set_thread_area.2: Describe set_thread_area()/get_thread_area() on m68k/MIPS
There are system calls of the same name present on the m86k and
MIPS  architectures, but they simply allow setting some arbitrary
value which can be interpreted as a thread pointer by a threading
library.

* man2/set_thread_area.2 (.SH NAME): Rephrase in order to not
  mention GDT.
(.SH SYNOPSIS): Add declarations for MIPS and m68k.
(.SH DESCRIPTION, .SH RETURN VALUE): Add description for MIPS
  and m68k.
(.SH NOTES): Mention a way to get thread pointer on MIPS.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 14:53:30 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ff2c46188e termios.3: Minor tweaks to Eugene's text
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 12:46:09 +02:00
Eugene Syromyatnikov 499eb81f26 termios.3: Note an XTABS alpha issue
* man3/termios.3 (.B TABDLY): Reference to the BUGS section.
(.SH BUGS): New section.  Describe an issue on alpha where the XTABS
macro was defined to a value outside TABDLY mask.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 12:40:49 +02:00
Eugene Syromyatnikov c0b34c18d6 perf_event_open.2: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 12:32:25 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 205b1bce43 timerfd_create.2: wfix
Reported-by: Daniel Kamil Kozar <dkk089@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 12:14:43 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c87cbea10f capabilities.7: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-02 11:37:29 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk c2b279afb7 capabilities.7: ffix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-01 13:55:37 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ddc1ad3079 capabilities.7: Add background details on capability transformations during execve(2)
Add background details on ambient and bounding set when
discussing capability transformations during execve(2).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-01 13:55:37 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 7c957134f1 capabilities.7: Minor rewording
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-01 13:55:37 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk bb1f24fab8 capabilities.7: Reorder text on capability bounding set
Reverse order of text blocks describing pre- and
post-2.6.25 bounding set. No content changes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-01 13:55:37 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 2e87ced3b5 capabilities.7: Rework bounding set as per-thread set in transformation rules
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-01 13:55:37 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 36de80b984 capabilities.7: Add text introducing bounding set along with other thread capability sets
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-01 13:55:37 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk daf8312704 capabilities.7: Clarify which capability sets capset(2) and capget(2) apply to
capset(2) and capget(2) apply operate only on the permitted,
effective, and inheritable process capability sets.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-01 12:46:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1db1d36d82 capabilities.7: wfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-01 12:40:14 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 6f75225113 proc.5: Mention choom(1) in discussion of /proc/[pid]/oom_score_adj
This command was added to util-linux on 16 April 2019.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-05-01 11:07:11 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 1166955680 Start of man-pages-4.17: updating Changes and Changes.old 2018-04-30 21:34:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a4e17b66a3 Start of man-pages-4.17: updating .Announce and .lsm files 2018-04-30 21:34:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk e22f4d4800 Start of man-pages-4.17: renaming .Announce and .lsm files 2018-04-30 21:34:48 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 06e95e483d Ready for 4.16 2018-04-30 17:54:28 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a706f0e022 Removed trailing white space at end of lines 2018-04-30 17:54:16 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 0858742f89 Changes: Expanded tabs 2018-04-30 17:54:16 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 135b9dcde0 Changes: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-30 17:42:24 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 09b8afdc04 execve.2, fallocate.2, getrlimit.2, io_submit.2, membarrier.2, mmap.2, msgget.2, open.2, ptrace.2, readv.2, semget.2, shmget.2, shutdown.2, syscall.2, wait.2, wait4.2, crypt.3, encrypt.3, fseek.3, getcwd.3, makedev.3, pthread_create.3, puts.3, tsearch.3, elf.5, filesystems.5, group.5, passwd.5, sysfs.5, mount_namespaces.7, posixoptions.7, time.7, unix.7, vdso.7, xattr.7, ld.so.8: tstamp
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-30 17:41:31 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 35ba41fea4 Changes: Ready for 4.16
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-30 17:35:35 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f2bfabe65b syscall.2: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-27 14:48:34 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk ebd10b39cb keyctl.2, sincos.3: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-27 14:48:33 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 29c0586f51 bpf.2, sched_setattr.2, crypt.3, elf.5, proc.5, fanotify.7, feature_test_macros.7, sched.7: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-27 14:48:33 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 843006f1ba keyctl.2: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-27 14:48:33 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk d2cb1ef1ac fallocate.2, keyctl.2, bzero.3: spfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-27 14:48:33 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk fbc8ab9aa5 copy_file_range.2: tfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-27 14:48:33 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 075f5e6592 namespaces.7: Mention that device ID should also be checked when comparing NS symlinks
When comparing two namespaces symlinks to see if they refer to
the same namespace, both the inode number and the device ID
should be compared. This point was already made clear in
ioctl_ns(2), but was missing from this page.

Reported-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-27 14:10:32 +02:00
Jakub Wilk 8e13d56651 open.2: Add missing argument for snprintf() in example code
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-27 14:02:47 +02:00
Jakub Wilk 3eb078c52f unix.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-27 14:01:50 +02:00
Jakub Wilk 90ef0f7bf8 capabilities.7: tfix
Signed-off-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-27 14:01:43 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 314d88f611 vdso.7: VDSO symbols (system calls) are not visible to seccomp(2) filters
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-24 18:25:44 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk 59153d52da seteuid.2: grfix
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-20 13:20:33 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk a1dbd698ee setgid.2: wfix: Make wording consistent with setuid(2)
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-19 20:07:23 +02:00
Michael Kerrisk f019faae04 fseek.3: Improve EPIPE error text
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
2018-04-19 15:00:04 +02:00