man-pages-3.78 is released

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Gidday,

The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:

    man-pages-3.78 - man pages for Linux

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_3.78

A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2015/01/man-pages-378-is-released.html

A selection of changes in this release that may be interesting
for readers of this list is shown below.

Cheers,

Michael


==================== Changes in man-pages-3.78 ====================


New and rewritten pages
-----------------------

execveat.2
    David Drysdale, Michael Kerrisk  [Rich Felker]
        New page for execveat(2)

memfd_create.2
    Michael Kerrisk, David Herrmann
        New page for memfd_create() system call
             Including notes about file sealing

s390_pci_mmio_write.2
    Alexey Ishchuk
        New page for s390 s390_pci_mmio_write() and s390_pci_mmio_read()
            New manual page for the new PCI MMIO memory access system
            calls, s390_pci_mmio_write() and s390_pci_mmio_read(),
            added for the s390 platform.


Newly documented interfaces in existing pages
---------------------------------------------

fcntl.2
    David Herrmann  [Michael Kerrisk]
        Document F_ADD_SEALS and F_GET_SEALS commands

proc.5
    Elie De Brauwer
        Document /proc/sys/vm/compact_memory
    Michael Kerrisk
        Document /proc/sys/fs/nr_open


Changes to individual pages
---------------------------

perf_event_open.2
    Vince Weaver
        Clarify description of overflow events
            Update the perf_event_open manpage to be more consistent when
            discussing overflow events.  It merges the discussion of
            poll-type notifications with those generated by SIGIO
            signal handlers.
            This addresses the remaining FIXMEs is the document.
    Vince Weaver
        Remove inaccurate paragraph describing attr.config
            Remove an inaccurate paragraph about values in the attr.config
            field.  This information was never true in any released kernel;
            it somehow snuck into the manpage because it is still described
            this way in tools/perf/design.txt in the kernel source tree.

ptrace.2
sigaction.2
seccomp.2
    Kees Cook
        Ptrace and siginfo details
            While writing some additional seccomp tests, I realized
            PTRACE_EVENT_SECCOMP wasn't documented yet. Fixed this, and added
            additional notes related to ptrace events SIGTRAP details.

readv.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Update details on glibc readv()/writev() wrapper behavior
            And add a historical detail about Linux 2.0.

syscall.2
    Kees Cook
        Add arm64 and mips
            Add mips and arm64 to tables, along with some further
            details on these architectures,

fexecve.3
    Michael Kerrisk
        Rewrite the script+close-on-exec problem as a BUG
            Also, add one or two details about this scenario.
    Michael Kerrisk
        The natural idiom when using fexecve() is to use the close-on-exec flag



-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/