Re: [PATCH v2] bdflush.2, fsync.2, sync.2: rm update(8) reference

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 03/21/2014 06:30 PM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
> Remove reference to update(8) man page, since there is no such
> page. This is an ancient BSD leftover I believe.
> 
> [v2: updated to git tip]

Hello Kir,

Thanks for that. By chance I was puzzling over that very reference 
myself recently, but was unaware of the BSD connection. The 
update(8) reference was present right back in man-pages-1.0 
(1993), and tehre was no update.8 page in the set then. That 
plus a little Googling suggests your hypothesis is correct.

Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kir-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  man2/bdflush.2 | 3 +--
>  man2/fsync.2   | 3 +--
>  man2/sync.2    | 3 +--
>  3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/bdflush.2 b/man2/bdflush.2
> index 796d8f2..b84e5bf 100644
> --- a/man2/bdflush.2
> +++ b/man2/bdflush.2
> @@ -119,5 +119,4 @@ intended to be portable.
>  .SH SEE ALSO
>  .BR fsync (2),
>  .BR sync (2),
> -.BR sync (8),
> -.BR update (8)
> +.BR sync (8)
> diff --git a/man2/fsync.2 b/man2/fsync.2
> index 66278fa..5578e4c 100644
> --- a/man2/fsync.2
> +++ b/man2/fsync.2
> @@ -166,5 +166,4 @@ to guarantee safe operation.
>  .BR sync_file_range (2),
>  .BR hdparm (8),
>  .BR mount (8),
> -.BR sync (8),
> -.BR update (8)
> +.BR sync (8)
> diff --git a/man2/sync.2 b/man2/sync.2
> index 11ba1e4..a597d19 100644
> --- a/man2/sync.2
> +++ b/man2/sync.2
> @@ -120,5 +120,4 @@ large caches.)
>  .BR bdflush (2),
>  .BR fdatasync (2),
>  .BR fsync (2),
> -.BR sync (8),
> -.BR update (8)
> +.BR sync (8)
> 


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