[RFC v1] system_data_types.7: Draft (and links to it: .3)

Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-14T00:20:55Z

From ffd8ea312527935cd86cc7ed1133a08d4e642b06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 02:07:50 +0200
Subject: [RFC] First draft for system_data_types.7 (and links to it:
<type>.3)

Hi Michael,

This is my first draft.

There are still TODO things:
- Add types (obviously)
- Write specific "Conforming to" versions
For now I just wrote POSIX, but I'll write the specific versions.
Should I write the latest one, the oldest one, or how?
For C versions I did the following:
If the type has been there since C89, I wrote C89, C99.
If the type is >= C99, I wrote C99.
If the type is >= C11, I wrote C11.
- Correctly highlight function names and similar (see timer_t)
For this first draft, I just want to show you the idea. I'll add
italics and all that stuff later on.
- Review "See also" (right now: all results of 'grep -rl <type>')
I put everything that came up with grep in the See also section.
Is it too much? Any other references I should add?

Your thoughts?

Cheers,

Alex

---
man3/sigval.3 | 1 +
man3/time_t.3 | 1 +
man3/timer_t.3 | 1 +
man3/timespec.3 | 1 +
man3/timeval.3 | 1 +
man7/system_data_types.7 | 201 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
6 files changed, 206 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 man3/sigval.3
create mode 100644 man3/time_t.3
create mode 100644 man3/timer_t.3
create mode 100644 man3/timespec.3
create mode 100644 man3/timeval.3
create mode 100644 man7/system_data_types.7

diff --git a/man3/sigval.3 b/man3/sigval.3
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db50c0f09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man3/sigval.3
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.so man7/system_data_types.7
diff --git a/man3/time_t.3 b/man3/time_t.3
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db50c0f09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man3/time_t.3
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.so man7/system_data_types.7
diff --git a/man3/timer_t.3 b/man3/timer_t.3
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db50c0f09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man3/timer_t.3
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.so man7/system_data_types.7
diff --git a/man3/timespec.3 b/man3/timespec.3
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db50c0f09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man3/timespec.3
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.so man7/system_data_types.7
diff --git a/man3/timeval.3 b/man3/timeval.3
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..db50c0f09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man3/timeval.3
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.so man7/system_data_types.7
diff --git a/man7/system_data_types.7 b/man7/system_data_types.7
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..278a6b830
--- /dev/null
+++ b/man7/system_data_types.7
@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+.\" Copyright (c) 2020 by Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
+.\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
+.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
+.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
+.\" preserved on all copies.
+.\"
+.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
+.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
+.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
+.\" permission notice identical to this one.
+.\"
+.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this
+.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no
+.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from
+.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not
+.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual,
+.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working
+.\" professionally.
+.\"
+.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
+.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
+.\"
+.\"
+.TH SYSTEM_DATA_TYPES 7 2020-09-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+system_data_types \- overview of system data types
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.\" TODO:
+.\" * Add types
+.\" * Check specific POSIX "Conforming to" versions
+.\" * Correctly highlight function names and similar (see timer_t)
+.\" * Review "See also" (right now: all results of 'grep -rl <type>')
+.SS typedef types
+.TP
+.B time_t
+.I <time.h>
+or
+.I <sys/types.h>
+.IP
+Used for time in seconds.
+It shall be an integer type.
+.IP
+Conforming to: POSIX, C89, C99
+.IP
+See also:
+.BR clock_getres (2),
+.BR clock_nanosleep (2),
+.BR getitimer (2),
+.BR gettimeofday (2),
+.BR io_getevents (2),
+.BR keyctl (2),
+.BR msgctl (2),
+.BR msgop (2),
+.BR nanosleep (2),
+.BR sched_rr_get_interval (2),
+.BR select (2),
+.BR semctl (2),
+.BR shmctl (2),
+.BR stat (2),
+.BR stime (2),
+.BR time (2),
+.BR timerfd_create (2),
+.BR timer_settime (2),
+.BR times (2),
+.BR utime (2),
+.BR utimensat (2),
+.BR adjtime (3),
+.BR ctime (3),
+.BR difftime (3),
+.BR ftime (3),
+.BR mq_receive (3),
+.BR mq_send (3),
+.BR newlocale (3),
+.BR ntp_gettime (3),
+.BR pthread_cleanup_push (3),
+.BR pthread_tryjoin_np (3),
+.BR rtime (3),
+.BR sem_wait (3),
+.BR strcat (3),
+.BR strftime (3),
+.BR timegm (3),
+.BR timeradd (3)
+.TP
+.B timer_t
+.I <time.h>
+or
+.I <sys/types.h>
+.IP
+Used for timer ID returned by timer_create().
+There are no defined comparison or assignment operators for this type.
+.IP
+Conforming to: POSIX
+.IP
+See also:
+.BR timer_create (2),
+.BR timer_delete (2),
+.BR timer_getoverrun (2),
+.BR timer_settime (2)
+.SS struct types
+.TP
+.B timespec
+.I <time.h>
+.IP
+.EX
+struct timespec {
+ time_t tv_sec; /* Seconds */
+ long tv_nsec; /* Nanoseconds */
+};
+.EE
+.IP
+Describes times in seconds and nanoseconds.
+.IP
+Conforming to: POSIX, C11
+.IP
+See also:
+.BR clock_getres (2),
+.BR clock_nanosleep (2),
+.BR futex (2),
+.BR io_getevents (2),
+.BR nanosleep (2),
+.BR poll (2),
+.BR recvmmsg (2),
+.BR sched_rr_get_interval (2),
+.BR select (2),
+.BR semop (2),
+.BR sigwaitinfo (2),
+.BR stat (2),
+.BR timerfd_create (2),
+.BR timer_settime (2),
+.BR utimensat (2),
+.BR aio_suspend (3),
+.BR clock_getcpuclockid (3),
+.BR getaddrinfo_a (3),
+.BR mq_receive (3),
+.BR mq_send (3),
+.BR pthread_getcpuclockid (3),
+.BR pthread_tryjoin_np (3),
+.BR sem_wait (3),
+.BR socket (7)
+.TP
+.B timeval
+.I <sys/time.h>
+.IP
+.EX
+struct timeval {
+ time_t tv_sec; /* Seconds */
+ suseconds_t tv_usec; /* Microseconds */
+};
+.EE
+.IP
+Describes times in seconds and miliseconds.
+.\" Comment from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/types/struct_timeval.h
+.IP
+Conforming to: POSIX
+.IP
+See also:
+.BR adjtimex (2),
+.BR futimesat (2),
+.BR getitimer (2),
+.BR getpriority (2),
+.BR getrusage (2),
+.BR gettimeofday (2),
+.BR select (2),
+.BR syscall (2),
+.BR syscalls (2),
+.BR utime (2),
+.BR wait4 (2),
+.BR adjtime (3),
+.BR futimes (3),
+.BR ntp_gettime (3),
+.BR rpc (3),
+.BR rtime (3),
+.BR timeradd (3),
+.BR utmp (5),
+.BR packet (7),
+.BR socket (7)
+.SS union types
+.TP
+.B sigval
+.I <signal.h>
+.IP
+.EX
+union sigval {
+ int sigval_int; /* Integer value */
+ void *sigval_ptr; /* Pointer value */
+};
+.EE
+.IP
+Data passed with notification.
+.IP
+Conforming to: POSIX
+.IP
+See also:
+.BR rt_sigqueueinfo (2),
+.BR sigaction (2),
+.BR mq_notify (3),
+.BR pthread_sigqueue (3),
+.BR sigqueue (3),
+.BR sigevent (7)
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