Bug Fix Advisory man-pages bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2008:0111-2
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2008-07-24
Last updated on: 2008-07-24
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated man-pages package that updates various man pages is now
available.

The man-pages package provides man (manual) pages from the Linux
Documentation Project.

This updated man-pages package fixes the following man pages documentation
bugs:

* amended the getgrnam_r man page that clarifies information about the
result of calling the "sysconf (_SC_GETGR_R_SIZE_MAX)" function.
* the gethostid man page has been amended with a warning about sign
extension of the long int return value on 64-bit systems.
* the getrlimit and setrlimit man pages have been updated to reflect the
fact that setting or limiting RSS memory is not possible on the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux version 5 kernel.
* the socket man page has been updated to better reflect newer kernel behavior.
* updated the proc man page to reflect new fields such as "numthreads",
"rt_priority" and "policy".

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated man-pages package, which
resolves these issues.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.src.rpm     e23f2fc64444669e7eef6ef039ed977e
 
IA-32:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
x86_64:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.src.rpm     e23f2fc64444669e7eef6ef039ed977e
 
IA-32:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
IA-64:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
PPC:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
s390:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
s390x:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
x86_64:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.src.rpm     e23f2fc64444669e7eef6ef039ed977e
 
IA-32:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
IA-64:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
x86_64:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.src.rpm     e23f2fc64444669e7eef6ef039ed977e
 
IA-32:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
IA-64:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
x86_64:
man-pages-1.67-15.el4.noarch.rpm     ef0d49b5d9c786c280888fd552bebba7
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

246574 - Modify man page to include warning about sign extension on 64 bit hosts.
253952 - setrlimit man page is incorrect, leads user to believe that rss can be set
329021 - setsockopt manpage info doesn't match kernel behavior


Keywords

getgrnam, gethostid, getrlimit, man-pages, proc, socket


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