- Issued:
- 2009-01-20
- Updated:
- 2009-01-20
RHBA-2008:0587 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
man-pages bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated man-pages package that fixes various bugs is now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Description
The man-pages package provides man (manual) pages from the Linux
Documentation Project.
This updated man-pages package includes fixes for the following bugs:
- the malloc_hook(3) man mage has been updated to reflect the fact that
malloc hooks are multi-thread-unsafe, deprecated functions.
- the ptrace(2) man page description for PTRACE_PEEKUSR has been updated.
- the rint(3) man page has been updated to reflect the fact that the
nearbyint() functions should only be called when ISO C99 is defined.
- a description of the new "scopev4" keyword in the gai.conf configuration
file has been added to the gai.conf(5) man page.
- the new man-pages fdetach(2), isastream(2), fattch(2), putmsg(2) and
getmsg(2) were added, and the unimplemented(2) man page was updated, to
reflect the fact STREAMS functions are not implemented on this system.
- the gethostid(2) man page now includes a warning about sign extension on
64-bit hosts.
- the connect(2) man page has been updated to inclued the following
description for the EADDRNOTAVAIL error code: "Non-existent interface was
requested or the requested address was not local."
- the proc(2) man page has been updated to reflect fields which have been
changed.
- the intro(2) man page incorrectly mentioned the _syscall[X] function,
which is not present in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
- the section on O_DIRECT in the open(2) man page has been updated to
reflect the fact that alignment must fit the block size of the device,
instead of fitting to 512-byte boundaries.
All users of man-pages are advised to upgrade to this updated 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
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 248405 - the open(2) man page lists an incorrect requirement on O_DIRECT buffer alignment
- BZ - 392401 - Incorrect error description for non-existent interfaces in connect(2)
- BZ - 402181 - Modify man page to include warning about sign extension on 64 bit hosts.
- BZ - 439199 - add scopev4 to gai.conf man page
- BZ - 450186 - deprecate malloc_hook(3) man page
CVEs
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
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man-pages-2.39-12.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c971572bc3ab1dd5f74a9fa78583aece6ea55337adb78cf1bbdd25963021e828 |
x86_64 | |
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 866ccb163b7d2e5b27fbc49d9db1bfdc5a96adbef1c1fb5852e8bee5e152a80f |
ia64 | |
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 866ccb163b7d2e5b27fbc49d9db1bfdc5a96adbef1c1fb5852e8bee5e152a80f |
i386 | |
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 866ccb163b7d2e5b27fbc49d9db1bfdc5a96adbef1c1fb5852e8bee5e152a80f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c971572bc3ab1dd5f74a9fa78583aece6ea55337adb78cf1bbdd25963021e828 |
x86_64 | |
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 866ccb163b7d2e5b27fbc49d9db1bfdc5a96adbef1c1fb5852e8bee5e152a80f |
i386 | |
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 866ccb163b7d2e5b27fbc49d9db1bfdc5a96adbef1c1fb5852e8bee5e152a80f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c971572bc3ab1dd5f74a9fa78583aece6ea55337adb78cf1bbdd25963021e828 |
x86_64 | |
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 866ccb163b7d2e5b27fbc49d9db1bfdc5a96adbef1c1fb5852e8bee5e152a80f |
i386 | |
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 866ccb163b7d2e5b27fbc49d9db1bfdc5a96adbef1c1fb5852e8bee5e152a80f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c971572bc3ab1dd5f74a9fa78583aece6ea55337adb78cf1bbdd25963021e828 |
s390x | |
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 866ccb163b7d2e5b27fbc49d9db1bfdc5a96adbef1c1fb5852e8bee5e152a80f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c971572bc3ab1dd5f74a9fa78583aece6ea55337adb78cf1bbdd25963021e828 |
ppc | |
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 866ccb163b7d2e5b27fbc49d9db1bfdc5a96adbef1c1fb5852e8bee5e152a80f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c971572bc3ab1dd5f74a9fa78583aece6ea55337adb78cf1bbdd25963021e828 |
x86_64 | |
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 866ccb163b7d2e5b27fbc49d9db1bfdc5a96adbef1c1fb5852e8bee5e152a80f |
i386 | |
man-pages-2.39-12.el5.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 866ccb163b7d2e5b27fbc49d9db1bfdc5a96adbef1c1fb5852e8bee5e152a80f |
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