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Branden Robinson" To: Dirk =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCller?= Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] typo in man2/readlink.2 Message-ID: <20260415182417.b6cvefbzk6ss3lmw@illithid> References: Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="n3r3uqmymiv6fytf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: --n3r3uqmymiv6fytf Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [BUG] typo in man2/readlink.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Hi Dirk, At 2026-04-15T20:12:59+0200, Dirk M=FCller wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I noticed that man pages 6.17 release includes this in the Synopsis > section of man -l man/man2/readlink.2: >=20 > ssize_t readlink(size_t bufsiz; > const char *restrict path, > char buf[restrict bufsiz], size_t bufsiz); >=20 > I believe this is a typo and it should be: >=20 > ssize_t readlink(const char *restrict path, > char buf[restrict bufsiz], size_t bufsiz); >=20 > instead. This is something of a FAQ on this mailing list. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/adupQhfJQ7kws17U@debian/ It's a GCC syntax extension. https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html > Sorry for not including a patch, but I am not sufficiently skilled at > editing man page sources :-) Have you seen groff_man_style(7)? https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/groff_man_style.7.html (Unfortunately Michael hasn't updated to groff 1.24.{0,1} yet.) 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