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From: Simone Piccardi <piccardi-TuvemuYfxVQ1GQ1Ptb7lUw@public.gmane.org>
To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: syncfs returns int (or long?)
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:49:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F368DF3.10605@truelite.it> (raw)

In man 2 syncfs (version 2011-09-07, also in the website) it is declared as:

void syncfs(int fd);

but then is said:

RETURN VALUE
       syncfs() returns 0 on success; on error, it returns -1 and
       sets  errno to indicate the error.

so it cannot be void. I get

piccardi@monk:/usr/src/linux-source-3.1$ grep -r syncfs include/*
include/asm-generic/unistd.h:#define __NR_syncfs 267
include/asm-generic/unistd.h:__SYSCALL(__NR_syncfs, sys_syncfs)
include/linux/syscalls.h:asmlinkage long sys_syncfs(int fd);

So it seems to be at least long.

Simone
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             reply	other threads:[~2012-02-11 15:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-11 15:49 Simone Piccardi [this message]
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2012-02-18  1:36   ` syncfs returns int (or long?) Michael Kerrisk

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