Re: [PATCH] process_madvise.2: Add note about missing glibc wrapper

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Alex,

On 2/11/21 6:44 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Glibc bug: <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27380>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>

Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  man2/process_madvise.2 | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/process_madvise.2 b/man2/process_madvise.2
> index d33c32f63..9dc90ced1 100644
> --- a/man2/process_madvise.2
> +++ b/man2/process_madvise.2
> @@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ process_madvise \- give advice about use of memory to a process
>  .BI "                        unsigned long " vlen ", int " advice ,
>  .BI "                        unsigned int " flags ");"
>  .fi
> +.PP
> +.IR Note :
> +There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
> +.\" FIXME: See <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27380>
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
>  The
>  .BR process_madvise()
> @@ -218,6 +222,9 @@ Support for this system call is optional,
>  depending on the setting of the
>  .B CONFIG_ADVISE_SYSCALLS
>  configuration option.
> +.SH NOTES
> +Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
> +.BR syscall (2).
>  .SH SEE ALSO
>  .BR madvise (2),
>  .BR pidfd_open (2),
> 


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