From a895613945fe2c43f7b0b316634b18347532c65d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 09:19:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] getcpu.2: Recommend that 'tcache' should be specified as NULL nowadays Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/getcpu.2 | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/getcpu.2 b/man2/getcpu.2 index 94c0635b2..0fc9b414a 100644 --- a/man2/getcpu.2 +++ b/man2/getcpu.2 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ .\" .\" 2008, mtk, various edits .\" -.TH GETCPU 2 2012-07-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH GETCPU 2 2013-04-03 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME getcpu \- determine CPU and NUMA node on which the calling thread is running .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ or .I node is NULL nothing is written to the respective pointer. -The third argument to this system call is nowadays unused (see NOTES). +The third argument to this system call is nowadays unused, +and should be specified as NULL +unless portability to Linux 2.6.23 or earlier is required (see NOTES). The information placed in .I cpu