From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sigprocmask.2: do not specify an exact value of rt_sigprocmask's 4th argument Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 15:40:32 +0100 Message-ID: <77c9ff20-d01c-1b7d-e2ff-997d39aa85ef@gmail.com> References: <20170219211302.GA30235@altlinux.org> <58AAA603.6020400@bfs.de> <20170220154327.GA9511@altlinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170220154327.GA9511-u2l5PoMzF/Vg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Dmitry V. Levin" , walter harms Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hello Dmitry On 02/20/2017 04:43 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > As sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) is not the same for all architectures, > it would be better not to mention any numbers as its value. Thanks! Applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin > --- > v2: mention that sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) is architecture specific. > > man2/sigprocmask.2 | 9 +++++---- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/sigprocmask.2 b/man2/sigprocmask.2 > index 8388340..499fd0c 100644 > --- a/man2/sigprocmask.2 > +++ b/man2/sigprocmask.2 > @@ -202,10 +202,11 @@ which specifies the size in bytes of the signal sets in > .IR set > and > .IR oldset . > -This argument is currently required to have the value 8 > -( > -.IR sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) > -). > +This argument is currently required to have a fixed architecture specific value > +(equal to > +.IR sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) ). > +.\" sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) == _NSIG / 8, > +.\" which equals to 8 on most architectures, but e.g. on MIPS it's 16. > > The glibc > .BR sigprocmask () > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html