This is a sequel to commit baf17bc4f2, addressing the
issues with missing commas in the middle of SEE ALSO lists that
emerged since.
The awk script from the original commit was not working and had to
be slightly modified (s/["]SEE ALSO["]/"?SEE ALSO/), otherwise it
works like a charm. Here's the fixed script and its output just
before this commit:
for f in man*/*; do
awk '
/^.SH "?SEE ALSO/ {
sa=1; print "== " FILENAME " =="; print; next
}
/^\.(PP|SH)/ {
sa=0; no=0; next
}
/^\.BR/ {
if (sa==1) {
print;
if (no == 1)
print "Missing comma in " FILENAME " +" FNR-1; no=0
}
}
/^\.BR .*)$/ {
if (sa==1)
no=1;
next
}
/\.\\"/ {next}
/.*/ {
if (sa==1) {
print; next
}
}
' $f; done | grep Missing
Missing comma in man1/memusage.1 +272
Missing comma in man2/adjtimex.2 +597
Missing comma in man2/adjtimex.2 +598
Missing comma in man2/mkdir.2 +252
Missing comma in man2/sigaction.2 +1045
Missing comma in man2/sigaction.2 +1047
Missing comma in man3/mbsnrtowcs.3 +198
Missing comma in man3/ntp_gettime.3 +142
Missing comma in man3/strcmp.3 +219
Missing comma in man3/strtol.3 +302
Missing comma in man3/wcstombs.3 +120
Missing comma in man7/user_namespaces.7 +1378
Missing comma in man7/xattr.7 +198
Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
prctls that are architecture-specific won't work on other
architectures, and arch-specific prctls that manipulate optional
hardware features likewise won't work if that hardware feature is
not present.
The established pattern seems to be to treat such prctls as if they
are unimplemented, when attempted on the wrong hardware.
Cover these cases with some generic weasel words in the closet
existing EINVAL clause.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Fix a few very minor bits of punctuation in
PR_SET_SPECULATION_CTRL and PR_GET_SPECULATION_CTRL.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The description of PR_SET_PDEATHSIG refers to "maxsig", which
is apparently intended to stand for the maximum defined signal
number.
maxsig seems not to be a thing, even in the kernel.
Reword to use the standard constant NSIG. (Discussion of SIGRTMIN
and SIGRTMAX seems out of scope here, and anyway is not relevant
to the kernel.)
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The Intel MPX API was removed from Linux 5.4. See Linux
commit f240652b6032 ("x86/mpx: Remove MPX APIs")
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The prctl list has historically been sorted by prctl name (ignoring
any SET_ or GET_ prefix) to make individual prctls easier to find.
Some noise seems to have crept in since.
Sort the list back into order. Similarly, reorder the list of
prctls specified to return non-zero values on success.
Content movement only. No semantic change.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The prctl.2 source is unnecessarily hard to navigate, not least
because prctl option flags are traditionally named PR_* and so look
just like prctl names.
For each actual prctl, add a comment of the form
.\" prctl PR_FOO
to make it move obvious where each top-level prctl starts.
Of course, we could add some clever macros, but let's not confuse
dumb parsers.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
In reality, almost every prctl interferes with assumptions that the
compiler and C library / runtime rely on. prctl() can therefore
make userspace explode in a variety ways that are likely to be hard
to debug.
This is not obvious to the uninitiated, so add a warning.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Under PR_SET_NAME, the [tid] value seen in procfs as
/proc/self/task/[tid] is mistakenly described as the name of the
thread, whereas really the name is on /proc/self/task/[tid]/comm.
Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The current synopsis for prctl(2) misleadingly claims that prctl
operates on a process. Rather, some (in fact, most) prctls operate
on a thread.
The wording probably dates back to the old days when Linux didn't
really have threads at all.
Reword as appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
No content changes. Just put things in a slightly more logical
order and add a few paragraph breaks for readability.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Note that another reason to use the *at() APIs is to access
'flags' functionality that is not available in the corresponding
conventional APIs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
By way of a hint that the file descriptor returned by dirfd()
could usefully be fed to the *at() APIs.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Both functions behave the same wrt return value, no need to describe
them separately.
Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
arm64 is currently documented as receiving the syscall number in
x8.
While this is the correct register, the syscall number is a 32-bit
integer. Bits [63:32] are ignored by the kernel.
So it is more correct to say "w8".
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
The arm OABI syscall interface is currently documented in terms of
register name aliases defined by the ARM Procedure Call Standard
(APCS). However, these don't make sense in the context of a
binary interface that doesn't comply (or need to comply) with
APCS.
Use the real architectural register names instead.
The names a1-a4, v1... are just aliases for r0-r3, r4... anyway,
so the interface is just the same regardless of which set of names
is used.
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Since kernel commit 96c5865559cee0f9cbc5173f3c949f6ce3525581,
the 'lo_flags' field is modifiable via the LOOP_SET_STATUS and
LOOP_SET_STATUS64 ioctl() operations.
See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203417
Reported-by: Vlad <cvazir@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
There are 2 typos:
file_in is used instead of fd_in in the ERRORS and NOTES sections.
file_out is used instead of fd_out in the ERRORS section.
Reported-by: Ricardo Castano <ricardo.castano.salinas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Kir Kolyshkin