Rationale:
$ man 7 man-pages 2>/dev/null | sed -n /Paragraphs/,/^$/p
Paragraphs should be separated by suitable markers (usually
either .PP or .IP). Do not separate paragraphs using blank
lines, as this results in poor rendering in some output
formats (such as PostScript and PDF).
Fix:
$ sed -i -e '1,/^\.EX/s/^$/.PP/' -e '/^\.EE/,/^\.EX/s/^$/.PP/' man?/*
And then some manual adjustments.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
I noticed this while working on some silly "hello, world"
programs, see https://git.sr.ht/~phf/hello-again if you're
curious. Disassembling sh4 code showed trap #31 all over the
place but the syscall(2) man page talked about trap #0x17 and
friends. Checking the kernel sources I got lucky in
arch/sh/kernel/entry-common.S where in commit 3623d138213ae Rich
Felker clarifies the situation.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Martin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The Linux kernel uses 'int' instead of 'long' for the return type.
As glibc provides no wrapper, use the same type the kernel uses.
......
$ grep -n wrapper man-pages/man2/subpage_prot.2
40:There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
99:Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
$ grep -rn SYSCALL_DEFINE.*subpage_prot linux/;
linux/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/subpage_prot.c:190:
SYSCALL_DEFINE3(subpage_prot, unsigned long, addr,
$ sed -n /SYSCALL.*subpage_prot/,/^}/p \
linux/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/subpage_prot.c \
|grep return;
return -ENOENT;
return -EINVAL;
return -EINVAL;
return 0;
return -EFAULT;
return -EFAULT;
return err;
$ sed -n /SYSCALL.*subpage_prot/,/^}/p \
linux/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/subpage_prot.c \
|grep '\<err\>';
int err;
err = -ENOMEM;
err = -ENOMEM;
err = 0;
return err;
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
This paragraph is a little bit hidden at the end of DESCRIPTION;
make it a little more prominent.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Linux kernel commit aae8a97d3ec30788790d1720b71d76fd8eb44b73 (part
of kernel release v2.6.39) added a check to disallow creating a
hardlink to an unlinked file.
The manual page already describes the trick of using
AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW as an alternative to AT_EMPTY_PATH, and for
AT_EMPTY_PATH the manual page already notes that it "will
generally not work if the file has a link count of zero". However,
the precise error (ENOENT) is not mentioned, and the error case
isn't mentioned in the ERRORS section at all.
This makes it easy to overlook the fact that the AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW
trick on /proc/self/fd/NN won't work on deleted files, as
evidenced by the follow message (which turns up when googling
"linkat deleted ENOENT"):
https://groups.google.com/g/linux.kernel/c/zZO4lqqwp64
Signed-off-by: Mathias Rav <m@git.strova.dk>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The Linux kernel uses 'pid_t' instead of 'long' for the return type.
As glibc provides no wrapper, use the same types the kernel uses.
$ sed -n 34,36p man-pages/man2/set_tid_address.2
.PP
.IR Note :
There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
$ grep -rn 'SYSCALL_DEFINE.*set_tid_address' linux/
linux/kernel/fork.c:1632:
SYSCALL_DEFINE1(set_tid_address, int __user *, tidptr)
$ sed -n 1632,1638p linux/kernel/fork.c
SYSCALL_DEFINE1(set_tid_address, int __user *, tidptr)
{
current->clear_child_tid = tidptr;
return task_pid_vnr(current);
}
$ grep -rn 'task_pid_vnr(struct' linux/
linux/include/linux/sched.h:1374:
static inline pid_t task_pid_vnr(struct task_struct *tsk)
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
{.IR var [x]} -> {.I var[x]}
There were around 15 entries of the former,
and around 360 of the latter.
Found using:
$ grep -rn '^\.I[ |R].* \[.*\]' |sort
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
In the comment of the example program, the peer blocks on fwait()
rather than fpost().
Signed-off-by: Jing Peng <pj.hades@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
With this change, there remain almost no vestiges of information
about the long defunct Linux libc.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Michael Kerrisk