Re: [PATCH] delete_module.2: SYNOPSIS: Fix prototype parameter types

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi ALex,

On 12/30/20 10:41 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> The Linux kernel uses 'unsigned int' instead of 'int' for the
> 'flags' parameter.  As glibc provides no wrapper, use the same
> type the kernel uses> ......
> 
> $ syscall='delete_module';
> $ find linux/ -type f -name '*.c' \
>   |xargs pcregrep -Mn "(?s)^[\w_]*SYSCALL_DEFINE.\(${syscall},.*?\)";
> linux/kernel/module.c:977:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE2(delete_module, const char __user *, name_user,
> 		unsigned int, flags)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>

Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  man2/delete_module.2 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/delete_module.2 b/man2/delete_module.2
> index e63545d51..1030e9698 100644
> --- a/man2/delete_module.2
> +++ b/man2/delete_module.2
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
>  delete_module \- unload a kernel module
>  .SH SYNOPSIS
>  .nf
> -.BI "int delete_module(const char *" name ", int " flags );
> +.BI "int delete_module(const char *" name ", unsigned int " flags );
>  .fi
>  .PP
>  .IR Note :
> 


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