I just happened upon this inconsistent text while reading `man 2
execve`. The code in question landed in 2.6.23 as b6a2fea39318
("mm: variable length argument support").
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
POSIX specifies that the parameters of timer_settime()
shall be 'restrict'. Glibc uses 'restrict' too.
Let's use it here too.
......
.../glibc$ grep_glibc_prototype timer_settime
time/time.h:242:
extern int timer_settime (timer_t __timerid, int __flags,
const struct itimerspec *__restrict __value,
struct itimerspec *__restrict __ovalue) __THROW;
.../glibc$
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Glibc uses 'restrict' for the types of the parameters of statx().
Let's use it here too.
......
.../glibc$ grep_glibc_prototype statx
io/bits/statx-generic.h:60:
int statx (int __dirfd, const char *__restrict __path, int __flags,
unsigned int __mask, struct statx *__restrict __buf)
__THROW __nonnull ((2, 5));
.../glibc$
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
POSIX specifies that the parameters of sigaltstack()
shall be 'restrict'. Glibc uses 'restrict' too.
Let's use it here too.
......
.../glibc$ grep_glibc_prototype sigaltstack
signal/signal.h:320:
extern int sigaltstack (const stack_t *__restrict __ss,
stack_t *__restrict __oss) __THROW;
.../glibc$
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
POSIX specifies that the parameters of getsockopt()
shall be 'restrict'. Glibc uses 'restrict' too.
Let's use it here too.
......
.../glibc$ grep_glibc_prototype getsockopt
socket/sys/socket.h:208:
extern int getsockopt (int __fd, int __level, int __optname,
void *__restrict __optval,
socklen_t *__restrict __optlen) __THROW;
.../glibc$
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
POSIX specifies that the parameters of getpeername()
shall be 'restrict'. Glibc uses 'restrict' too.
Let's use it here too.
......
.../glibc$ grep_glibc_prototype getpeername
socket/sys/socket.h:130:
extern int getpeername (int __fd, __SOCKADDR_ARG __addr,
socklen_t *__restrict __len) __THROW;
.../glibc$
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The page used 'hint' and 'advice' synonymously. This leaves the
reader wondering if the terms mean the same thing, or different
things. They mean the same thing, so use just one term.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Rather than repeating the description of MADV_COLD and MADV_PAGEOUT
in two pages, centralize the discussion in madvise(2), and refer
from process_madvise(2) ro madvise(2).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Skimming open(2), I was surprised not to see tmpfs mentioned as a
filesystem supported by O_TMPFILE.
If I'm understanding correctly (I'm very possibly not!), tmpfs is
a filesystem built on shmem, so I think it's more correct (and
probably much more widely understandable) to refer to tmpfs here.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
There are many slightly different prototypes for this syscall,
but none of them is like the documented one.
Of all the different prototypes,
let's document the asm-generic one.
This manual page was actually using a prototype similar to
mmap(2), but there's no glibc wrapper function called mmap2(2),
as the wrapper for this syscall is mmap(2). Therefore, the
documented prototype should be the kernel one.
......
.../linux$ grep_syscall mmap2
arch/csky/kernel/syscall.c:17:
SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap2,
unsigned long, addr,
unsigned long, len,
unsigned long, prot,
unsigned long, flags,
unsigned long, fd,
off_t, offset)
arch/microblaze/kernel/sys_microblaze.c:46:
SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap2, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, len,
unsigned long, prot, unsigned long, flags, unsigned long, fd,
unsigned long, pgoff)
arch/nds32/kernel/sys_nds32.c:12:
SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap2, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, len,
unsigned long, prot, unsigned long, flags,
unsigned long, fd, unsigned long, pgoff)
arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls.c:60:
SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap2, unsigned long, addr, size_t, len,
unsigned long, prot, unsigned long, flags,
unsigned long, fd, unsigned long, pgoff)
arch/riscv/kernel/sys_riscv.c:37:
SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap2, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, len,
unsigned long, prot, unsigned long, flags,
unsigned long, fd, off_t, offset)
arch/s390/kernel/sys_s390.c:49:
SYSCALL_DEFINE1(mmap2, struct s390_mmap_arg_struct __user *, arg)
arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_32.c:101:
SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mmap2, unsigned long, addr, unsigned long, len,
unsigned long, prot, unsigned long, flags, unsigned long, fd,
unsigned long, pgoff)
arch/ia64/include/asm/unistd.h:30:
asmlinkage unsigned long sys_mmap2(
unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
int prot, int flags,
int fd, long pgoff);
arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c:139:
asmlinkage unsigned long
sys_mmap2 (unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, int prot, int flags, int fd, long pgoff)
arch/m68k/kernel/sys_m68k.c:40:
asmlinkage long sys_mmap2(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,
unsigned long fd, unsigned long pgoff)
arch/parisc/kernel/sys_parisc.c:275:
asmlinkage unsigned long sys_mmap2(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags, unsigned long fd,
unsigned long pgoff)
arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscalls.h:15:
asmlinkage long sys_mmap2(unsigned long addr, size_t len,
unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,
unsigned long fd, unsigned long pgoff);
arch/sh/include/asm/syscalls.h:8:
asmlinkage long sys_mmap2(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,
unsigned long fd, unsigned long pgoff);
arch/sh/kernel/sys_sh.c:41:
asmlinkage long sys_mmap2(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,
unsigned long fd, unsigned long pgoff)
arch/sparc/kernel/systbls.h:23:
asmlinkage long sys_mmap2(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,
unsigned long fd, unsigned long pgoff);
include/asm-generic/syscalls.h:14:
asmlinkage long sys_mmap2(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags,
unsigned long fd, unsigned long pgoff);
.../linux$
function grep_syscall()
{
if ! [ -v 1 ]; then
>&2 echo "Usage: ${FUNCNAME[0]} <syscall>";
return ${EX_USAGE};
fi
find * -type f \
|grep '\.c$' \
|sort -V \
|xargs pcregrep -Mn "(?s)^\w*SYSCALL_DEFINE.\(${1},.*?\)" \
|sed -E 's/^[^:]+:[0-9]+:/&\n/';
find * -type f \
|grep '\.[ch]$' \
|sort -V \
|xargs pcregrep -Mn "(?s)^asmlinkage\s+[\w\s]+\**sys_${1}\s*\(.*?\)" \
|sed -E 's/^[^:]+:[0-9]+:/&\n/';
}
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The documented prototype for mlock2() was a mix of the
glibc wrapper prototype and the kernel syscall prototype.
Let's document the glibc wrapper prototype, which is shown below.
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.../glibc$ grep_glibc_prototype mlock2
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/mman-shared.h:55:
int mlock2 (const void *__addr, size_t __length, unsigned int __flags) __THROW;
.../glibc$
function grep_glibc_prototype()
{
if ! [ -v 1 ]; then
>&2 echo "Usage: ${FUNCNAME[0]} <func>";
return ${EX_USAGE};
fi
find * -type f \
|grep '\.h$' \
|sort -V \
|xargs pcregrep -Mn \
"(?s)^[^\s#][\w\s]+\s+\**${1}\s*\([\w\s()[\]*,]*?(...)?\)[\w\s()]*;" \
|sed -E 's/^[^:]+:[0-9]+:/&\n/';
}
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
There seems to be no reason <unistd.h> is shown here, so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
These pages have the odd wording 'the external variable errno',
which does not occur in other pages. Make these pages conform with
the norm.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
fileno(3) differs from the other functions in various ways.
For example, it is governed by different standards,
and can set 'errno'. Conversely, the other functions
are about examining the status of a stream, while
fileno(3) simply obtains the underlying file descriptor.
Furthermore, splitting this function out allows
for some cleaner upcoming changes in ferror(3).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Calling ipc() directly would be a rather unusual thing to do,
so add some text to emphasize that point.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
I filed a bug against glibc
requesting the wrapper for the new syscall.
Glibc bug: <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27359>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Dmitry V. Levin