Re: [PATCH] man: Add io_setup.3 and io_destroy.3

chrubis-AlSwsSmVLrQ
2013-03-28T09:35:01Z

Hi!
> > This patch adds two missing manual pages.
> >
> > I've tried to format them in accordance with
> > Linux man-pages project. If these are acked
> > I'll reformat the rest of the io_* system call
> > wrappers man pages to match.
>
> So, here's what I'm not clear on. AFAIK, the io_setup() wrapper (and
> the other io_*() wrappers) is provided in libaio, right? And libaio is
> a completely separate package from glibc, right?
>
> The man-pages project documents the Linux syscall and glibc APIs, so
> if my understanding above is correct, then these io_*(3) pages belong
> in the libaio package, not in in man-pages. Could you or Jeff clarify?

You are 100% right and we both got it the first time you said this. I've
simply CCed you so that you can have a quick look at the pages and say
if they have all the information they should have before they got
included into libaio.