man-pages-5.01 is released

man-pages-5.01 is released

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Gidday,

The Linux man-pages maintainer proudly announces:

    man-pages-5.01 - man pages for Linux

This release resulted from patches, bug reports, reviews, and comments
from just over 20 people, with just over 70 commits making changes
to around 40 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_5.01

A short summary of the release is blogged at:
http://linux-man-pages.blogspot.com/2019/05/man-pages-501-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-5.01 ====================

Released: 2019-05-09, Munich


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

tsearch.3
    Florian Weimer  [Michael Kerrisk]
        Document the twalk_r() function added in glibc 2.30


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

bpf.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Update kernel version info for JIT compiler

clone.2
    Michael Kerrisk  [Jakub Nowak]
        CLONE_CHILD_SETTID has effect before clone() returns *in the child*
            CLONE_CHILD_SETTID may not have had effect by the time clone()
            returns in the parent, which could be relevant if the
            CLONE_VM flag is employed. The relevant kernel code is in
            schedule_tail(), which is called in ret_from_fork()
            in the child.

            See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203105

execve.2
    Michael Kerrisk
        Note that stack+environ size is also limited to 3/4 of _STK_LIM
            In fs/exec.c::prepare_arg_pages(), we have:

                    limit = _STK_LIM / 4 * 3;
                    limit = min(limit, bprm->rlim_stack.rlim_cur / 4);



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