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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave-h16yJtLeMjHk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers
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Cc: Michael Kerrisk
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH man-pages] Add membarrier system call man page
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:40:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151218184035.GF17386@linux-uzut.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1450012663-16173-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>

On Sun, 13 Dec 2015, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>+.SH RETURN VALUE
>+On success, this system call returns zero.  On error, \-1 is returned,
>+and

For the zero return, would it make sense to specify that it is also the case
for MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED under UP? Its pretty obvious it should be a no-op,
but wouldn't hurt to make it explicit.

Thanks,
Davidlohr

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-18 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-13 13:17 [RFC PATCH man-pages] Add membarrier system call man page Mathieu Desnoyers
     [not found] ` <1450012663-16173-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-15 16:14   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-12-18 18:40   ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
     [not found]     ` <20151218184035.GF17386-95RKjC4jbl+7r5TWoziOLQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-18 19:37       ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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