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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Subject: [PATCH] get_phys_pages.3: glibc gets the info from sysinfo(2) since 2.23
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 22:41:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201230214147.874671-7-alx.manpages@gmail.com> (raw)

See glibc's commit: 0ce657c576bf1b24
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=0ce657c576bf1b24

Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man3/get_phys_pages.3 | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man3/get_phys_pages.3 b/man3/get_phys_pages.3
index 35f83fedb..a8a1ce3f4 100644
--- a/man3/get_phys_pages.3
+++ b/man3/get_phys_pages.3
@@ -55,15 +55,20 @@ The system could not provide the required information
 (possibly because the
 .I /proc
 filesystem was not mounted).
-.SH CONFORMING TO
-These functions are GNU extensions.
-.SH NOTES
-These functions obtain the required information by scanning the
+.SH VERSIONS
+Before glibc 2.23,
+these functions obtained the required information by scanning the
 .I MemTotal
 and
 .I MemFree
 fields of
 .IR /proc/meminfo .
+.SH CONFORMING TO
+These functions are GNU extensions.
+.SH NOTES
+Since glibc 2.23,
+these functions obtain the required information by calling
+.BR sysinfo (2).
 .PP
 The following
 .BR sysconf (3)
-- 
2.29.2


             reply	other threads:[~2020-12-30 21:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-30 21:41 Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2020-12-30 22:40 ` [PATCH] get_phys_pages.3: glibc gets the info from sysinfo(2) since 2.23 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-12-30 23:22   ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2020-12-31  8:21     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-12-31 11:48       ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-01-01 22:39         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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