From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] bdflush.2, fsync.2, sync.2: rm update(8) reference Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 08:21:57 +0100 Message-ID: <532D3A15.9030804@gmail.com> References: <1395422752-28712-1-git-send-email-kir@openvz.org> <1395423027-29232-1-git-send-email-kir@openvz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1395423027-29232-1-git-send-email-kir-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Kir Kolyshkin Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 03/21/2014 06:30 PM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > Remove reference to update(8) man page, since there is no such > page. This is an ancient BSD leftover I believe. > > [v2: updated to git tip] Hello Kir, Thanks for that. By chance I was puzzling over that very reference myself recently, but was unaware of the BSD connection. The update(8) reference was present right back in man-pages-1.0 (1993), and tehre was no update.8 page in the set then. That plus a little Googling suggests your hypothesis is correct. Patch applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin > --- > man2/bdflush.2 | 3 +-- > man2/fsync.2 | 3 +-- > man2/sync.2 | 3 +-- > 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/bdflush.2 b/man2/bdflush.2 > index 796d8f2..b84e5bf 100644 > --- a/man2/bdflush.2 > +++ b/man2/bdflush.2 > @@ -119,5 +119,4 @@ intended to be portable. > .SH SEE ALSO > .BR fsync (2), > .BR sync (2), > -.BR sync (8), > -.BR update (8) > +.BR sync (8) > diff --git a/man2/fsync.2 b/man2/fsync.2 > index 66278fa..5578e4c 100644 > --- a/man2/fsync.2 > +++ b/man2/fsync.2 > @@ -166,5 +166,4 @@ to guarantee safe operation. > .BR sync_file_range (2), > .BR hdparm (8), > .BR mount (8), > -.BR sync (8), > -.BR update (8) > +.BR sync (8) > diff --git a/man2/sync.2 b/man2/sync.2 > index 11ba1e4..a597d19 100644 > --- a/man2/sync.2 > +++ b/man2/sync.2 > @@ -120,5 +120,4 @@ large caches.) > .BR bdflush (2), > .BR fdatasync (2), > .BR fsync (2), > -.BR sync (8), > -.BR update (8) > +.BR sync (8) > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html