tags 385243 fixed-upstream thanks Guillem,
Great patch -- applied for upstream 2.41; thank you. Cheers, Michael Guillem Jover wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 2.39-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > The prctl(2) manpage is missing some new options and the versions > when some of those options were introduced, I've added accuracy to > some of the other versions. Attached you can find a patch which > fixes those. > > regards, > guillem > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > --- man2/prctl.2 2006-08-28 07:19:32.000000000 +0300 > +++ man2/prctl.2 2006-08-30 04:28:22.000000000 +0300 > @@ -26,11 +26,13 @@ > .\" Modified 27 Jun 02, Michael Kerrisk > .\" Added PR_SET_DUMPABLE, PR_GET_DUMPABLE, > .\" PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, PR_GET_KEEPCAPS > +.\" Modified 2006-08-30 Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > +.\" Updated Linux versions where the options where introduced. > +.\" Added PR_SET_TIMING, PR_GET_TIMING, PR_SET_NAME, PR_GET_NAME, > +.\" PR_SET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_SET_FPEMU, PR_GET_FPEMU, > +.\" PR_SET_FPEXC, PR_GET_FPEXC > .\" > -.\" FIXME The following (applicable only on IA-64) are not currently > -.\" described: PR_SET_UNALIGN, PR_GET_UNALIGN, PR_SET_FPEMU, PR_GET_FPEMU > -.\" > -.TH PRCTL 2 2002-06-27 "Linux 2.4.18" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > +.TH PRCTL 2 2006-08-30 "Linux 2.6.17" "Linux Programmer's Manual" > .SH NAME > prctl \- operations on a process > .SH SYNOPSIS > @@ -56,12 +58,12 @@ This value is cleared upon a > .BR fork (). > .TP > .B PR_GET_PDEATHSIG > -(since Linux 2.3.15) > +(Since Linux 2.3.15) > Read the current value of the parent process death signal > into the (int *) \fIarg2\fP. > .TP > .B PR_SET_DUMPABLE > -(Since Linux 2.4) > +(Since Linux 2.3.20) > Set the state of the flag determining whether core dumps are produced > for this process upon delivery of a signal whose default behaviour is > to produce a core dump. > @@ -81,7 +83,7 @@ in > .BR proc (5).) > .TP > .B PR_GET_DUMPABLE > -(Since Linux 2.4) > +(Since Linux 2.3.20) > Return (as the function result) the current state of the calling > process's dumpable flag. > .\" Since Linux 2.6.13, the dumpable flag can have the value 2, > @@ -89,6 +91,7 @@ process's dumpable flag. > .\" flags has a non-zero value. This was fixed in 2.6.14. > .TP > .B PR_SET_KEEPCAPS > +(Since Linux 2.2.18) > Set the state of the process's "keep capabilities" flag, > which determines whether the process's effective and permitted > capability sets are cleared when a change is made to the process's user IDs > @@ -99,8 +102,64 @@ all become non-zero when at least one of > must be either 0 (capabilities are cleared) or 1 (capabilities are kept). > .TP > .B PR_GET_KEEPCAPS > +(Since Linux 2.2.18) > Return (as the function result) the current state of the calling process's > "keep capabilities" flag. > +.TP > +.B PR_SET_TIMING > +Set whether to use (normal, traditional) statistical process timing or > +accurate timestamp based process timing, by passing > \fBPR_TIMING_STATISTICAL\fP > +or \fBPR_TIMING_TIMESTAMP\fP to \fIarg2\fP. > +.TP > +.B PR_GET_TIMING > +Return (as the function result) which process timing method is currently > +in use. > +.TP > +.B PR_SET_NAME > +(Since Linux 2.6.9) > +Set the process name for the current process to \fIarg2\fP. > +.TP > +.B PR_GET_NAME > +(Since Linux 2.6.11) > +Get the process name for the current process from \fIarg2\fP. > +.TP > +.B PR_SET_UNALIGN > +(Since Linux 2.3.48, only on parisc and ia64) > +Set unaligned access control bits to \fIarg2\fP. Pass > +\fBPR_UNALIGN_NOPRINT\fP to silently fix up unaligned user accesses, or > +\fBPR_UNALIGN_SIGBUS\fP to generate SIGBUS on unaligned user access. > +.TP > +.B PR_GET_UNALIGN > +(Since Linux 2.3.48, only on parisc and ia64) > +Get unaligned access control bits from \fIarg2\fP. > +.TP > +.B PR_SET_FPEMU > +(Since Linux 2.4.18, 2.5.9, only on ia64) > +Set floating-point emulation control bits to \fIarg2\fP. > +Pass \fBPR_FPEMU_NOPRINT\fP to silently emulate fp operations accesses, or > +\fBPR_FPEMU_SIGFPE\fP to not emulate fp operations and send SIGFPE instead. > +.TP > +.B PR_GET_FPEMU > +(Since Linux 2.4.18, 2.5.9, only on ia64) > +Get floating-point emulation control bits from \fIarg2\fP. > +.TP > +.B PR_SET_FPEXC > +(Since Linux 2.4.21, 2.5.32, only on powerpc) > +Set floating-point exception mode to \fIarg2\fP. Pass > +\fBPR_FP_EXC_SW_ENABLE\fP to use FPEXC for FP exception enables, > +\fBPR_FP_EXC_DIV\fP for floating point divide by zero, > +\fBPR_FP_EXC_OVF\fP for floating point overflow, > +\fBPR_FP_EXC_UND\fP for floating point underflow, > +\fBPR_FP_EXC_RES\fP for floating point inexact result, > +\fBPR_FP_EXC_INV\fP for floating point invalid operation, > +\fBPR_FP_EXC_DISABLED\fP for FP exceptions disabled, > +\fBPR_FP_EXC_NONRECOV\fP for async non-recoverable exception mode, > +\fBPR_FP_EXC_ASYNC\fP for async recoverable exception mode, > +\fBPR_FP_EXC_PRECISE\fP for precise exception mode. > +.TP > +.B PR_GET_FPEXC > +(Since Linux 2.4.21, 2.5.32, only on powerpc) > +Get floating-point exception mode from \fIarg2\fP. > .SH "RETURN VALUE" > .B PR_GET_DUMPABLE > and -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? 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