Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Various pages: Normalize NOTES about nonexistent glibc wrappers

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

On 12/30/20 5:07 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hello Alex and Ganimedes,
> 
> On 12/30/20 4:20 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> From: Ganimedes Colomar <gacoan.linux@gmail.com>
>>
>> See previous commit.
>>
>> This commit normalizes texts under sections other than SYNOPSIS
>> (most of them in NOTES).
> 
> Good! Patch applied. I made one minor fix; see below.
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Ganimedes Colomar <gacoan.linux@gmail.com>
>> Cowritten-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  man2/add_key.2              | 2 +-
>>  man2/arch_prctl.2           | 6 ++----
>>  man2/getdents.2             | 8 ++++----
>>  man2/io_cancel.2            | 2 +-
>>  man2/io_destroy.2           | 2 +-
>>  man2/io_getevents.2         | 2 +-
>>  man2/io_setup.2             | 2 +-
>>  man2/io_submit.2            | 2 +-
>>  man2/kexec_load.2           | 3 +--
>>  man2/keyctl.2               | 2 +-
>>  man2/pidfd_getfd.2          | 2 +-
>>  man2/pidfd_open.2           | 2 +-
>>  man2/pidfd_send_signal.2    | 2 +-
>>  man2/request_key.2          | 2 +-
>>  man2/s390_guarded_storage.2 | 3 +--
>>  man2/s390_pci_mmio_write.2  | 3 +--
>>  man2/s390_runtime_instr.2   | 3 +--
>>  man2/s390_sthyi.2           | 3 +--
>>  man2/seccomp.2              | 3 +++
>>  man2/sysctl.2               | 3 +--
>>  20 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>>
> 
> [...]
> 
>> --- a/man2/kexec_load.2
>> +++ b/man2/kexec_load.2
>> @@ -335,8 +335,7 @@ system call first appeared in Linux 3.17.
>>  .SH CONFORMING TO
>>  These system calls are Linux-specific.
>>  .SH NOTES
>> -Currently, there is no glibc support for these system calls.
>> -Call them using
>> +Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
> 
> I changed to: "... these system calls; call them using..."

Hello Michael,

Good catch!

I'll send you a first round of fixes for syscalls and wrappers in a moment.

Thanks,

Alex

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
>