==================== Changes in man-pages-2.12 ==================== Released: 2005-10-31 Contributors ------------ The following people contributed notes, ideas, or patches that have been incorporated in changes in this release: Akihiro MOTOKI Andries Brouwer Brian M. Carlson herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Martin Landers Michael Benedict Apologies if I missed anyone! Global changes -------------- Typographical or grammatical errors have been corrected in several places. Changes to individual pages --------------------------- mlock.2 mtk Reworded text around PAGESIZE, noting also that sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) can be used. path_resolution.2 mtk / aeb Removed words "as well" (added in 2.11) from the phrase "and it gets these last five capabilities if its fsuid is 0 as well" since there are (unusual) situations in which fsuid can be 0 while the effective UID is not. Reworked (cut down) discussion of capabilities, moving part of it into capabilities.7 setresuid.2 mtk Add text to note that setresuid() always modifies the file system UID, and setresgid() likewise always modifies the file system GID. shmget.2 mtk Added (brief) description of SHM_HUGETLB. sigaltstack.2 mtk / Martin Landers Noted that ss_sp is automatically aligned by the kernel. byteorder.3 Brian M. Carlson / herbert@gondor.apana.org.au Change to in prototype; add text explaining that some systems need the former header. As per Debian bug 265244 capabilities.7 mtk Reworked part of the discussion of exec() and capabilities. Added sub-section "Effect of User ID Changes on Capabilities". Reworked discussion of CAP_SYS_ADMIN and file-max.