From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] man2/syscalls.2: Add prlimit64. Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:18:44 +0200 Message-ID: <53A08684.7050804@gmail.com> References: <53A053B3.1000704@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <53A053B3.1000704-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Carlos O'Donell , "linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 06/17/2014 04:41 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > While trying to reconcile the new features in glibc with the > documented entries in the linux kernel man pages I noticed that > glibc exports prlimit64 for use by 32-bit applications (as does > the linux kernel), but that prlimit64 was not defined in the > syscalls list or in the prlimit-related page. > > This is not the complete fix for this, but I don't have the time > to explain why and when prlimit64 should be used (or how it should > be used safely). Therefore I'm just patching the syscalls.2 list > to show that prlimit64 exists and was added in 2.6.36 (verified > with git by checking out the tags before and after). > > Unless you've purposely excluded prlimit64 to avoid telling users > about it because it's complicated, please apply. > > Patch against master. Thanks, Carlos. Applied. When you one day explain it, probably I will also get a bit of an educations :-). Cheers, Michael -- 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