From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: ioctl manpages? Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 12:53:26 +0100 Message-ID: <566FFF36.4060103@gmail.com> References: <20151215083358.GE10584@birch.djwong.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20151215083358.GE10584-PTl6brltDGh4DFYR7WNSRA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Hello Darrick, On 12/15/2015 09:33 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Hi, > > Just out of curiosity, how does one submit manpages for specific > ioctls? There's a manpage for ioctl() itself, but I can't find > anything for things like, say, FIEMAP or FICLONE or FICLONERANGE. > I guess they'd be section 2, right? Yes. (And it sure would be nice to see some of those documented. Is this an offer? :-) ) > Something like /usr/share/man/man2/ficlone.2.gz? Or a separate > ioctl-ficlone.2.gz, just in case there's ever a ficlone syscall? We already have ioctl_fat.2 and ioctl_list.2, so I'd say ioctl_ficlone.2 and so on. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/