get_mempolicy(2) type mismatch

get_mempolicy(2) type mismatch

[Jörn Engel]

The manpage seems to have the wrong type for "addr".

Manpage:
       int get_mempolicy(int *mode, unsigned long *nodemask,
                         unsigned long maxnode, unsigned long addr,
                         unsigned long flags);

/usr/include/numaif.h:
extern long get_mempolicy(int *policy, const unsigned long *nmask,
                        unsigned long maxnode, void *addr, int flags);

J�rn

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Re: get_mempolicy(2) type mismatch

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On 05/02/2016 07:58 PM, J�rn Engel wrote:
> The manpage seems to have the wrong type for "addr".
> 
> Manpage:
>        int get_mempolicy(int *mode, unsigned long *nodemask,
>                          unsigned long maxnode, unsigned long addr,
>                          unsigned long flags);
> 
> /usr/include/numaif.h:
> extern long get_mempolicy(int *policy, const unsigned long *nmask,
>                         unsigned long maxnode, void *addr, int flags);
> 
> J�rn

Hmmm -- it seems that the numactl package headers differ from the 
kernel headers (where the man page is accurate). But, it seems like 
the man page should reflect what's in the user-space header file, so 
I fixed it to be 

    void *addr

Cheers,

Michael

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