Manpages

Revision as of 15:51, 19 February 2013 by Cyrillos (talk | contribs) (→‎gorcunov@)

About man-pages

Since we modify kernel source code and userspace API, we need to reflect such changes in official man-pages package (which lives at http://git.kernel.org/?p=docs/man-pages/man-pages.git). So lets track the status here.

Status

Manpage Description Status Comments
man-pages: 98ef180325 kcmp system call v3.46 merged
man-pages: 69287cb678 prctl SET_MM extension v3.39 merged
prctl PR_GET_TID_ADDRESS - sent for review

Need to check

xemul@

net dialogue interface (uncluding SOCK_DIAG_BY_FAMILY,NETLINK_SOCK_DIAG) --> man7/netlink.7

kernel.ns_last_pid, is kernel docs enough?

SO_PEEK_OFF -- for socket

sockoption -- TCP_REPAIR and etc

Allow to create links with given ifindex RTM_NEWLINK

PACKET_SHOW_ (diag modules details)

SO_BINDTODEVICE readable now

SO_GET_FILTER

/proc/pid/map_files links (like /proc/pid/fd ones)

avagin@

proc: don't show nonexistent capabilities ?

skinsbursky@

MSG_COPY for IPC

gorcunov@

  • tty's TIOCGPKT,TIOCGPTLCK,TIOCGEXCL codes -- unclear where to put, since there is no man for other ioctls
  • smaps flags in man5/proc.5 ?
  • map_files as well
  • fdinfo ?
  • F_GETOWNER_UIDS in fcntl