From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: posix_memalign(3)
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2023 23:15:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZWEgjh04AoNijJmL@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <221a5e66-cf73-4342-a610-3e1b247b14c4@jguk.org>
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Hi Jonny,
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 10:03:58PM +0000, Jonny Grant wrote:
> Hello
>
> Some feedback, suggestions.
>
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/posix_memalign.3.html
> "ENOMEM There was insufficient memory to fulfill the allocation request."
>
> Rather wordy, how about "ENOMEM Out of memory" ? that would match malloc(3)
LGTM
>
>
> There are quite a few extra words in the description, how about simplifying:
>
> Orig:
> "The function posix_memalign() allocates size bytes and places the
> address of the allocated memory in *memptr. "
>
> Simplification:
> "posix_memalign() allocates size bytes and places the
LGTM
> allocated memory address in *memptr."
This doesn't convince me. I've applied patches for all the other
suggestions.
>
> Another one.
> Orig:
> "The function aligned_alloc() is the same as memalign(), except
> for the added restriction that size should be a multiple of
> alignment."
>
> simplification:
>
> "aligned_alloc() is the same as memalign(), except
LGTM
> for the added restriction that size should be a multiple of
> alignment.
>
> Kind regards, Jonny
Thanks,
Alex
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