On 12.09.2011 21:29:13, +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Hi Christoph, > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 08:50:39PM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: >> as the actual file handle can have a varying size. The variable of >> .I handle_type >> specifies how the file within the filesystem is encoded. This value >> is set to one of the following values: > > This has absolutely no business in the man page. As far as userspace > is concerned this simply is an opaque handle freely chose by the > file system. The only reason we have an emum for them is to make > it easier to follow them on the wire using tools like wireshark. > > > The man page should probably also mentioned that these systems calls > are optinal and might not be present on modern kernel in case they > have been disabled during configuration. Thank you for the review. Here is the updated man page with your change requests. -- Ciao Stephan