From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>, linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] process_madvise.2: Add note about missing glibc wrapper
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 18:44:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210211174454.48112-2-alx.manpages@gmail.com> (raw)
Glibc bug: <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27380>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
---
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),
--
2.30.0
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2021-02-13 15:46 ` [PATCH] process_madvise.2: Add note about missing glibc wrapper Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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