From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ioctl.2: wfix Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 21:13:16 +0100 Message-ID: <545FCADC.80601@gmail.com> References: <1415530321-6004-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1415530321-6004-1-git-send-email-xypron.glpk-Mmb7MZpHnFY@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Heinrich Schuchardt Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 11/09/2014 11:52 AM, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > In most other manpages file descriptors are called fd. > > This patches renames attribute d to fd. Thanks, Heinrich. Applied. Cheers, Michael > cf. fs/ioctl.c:604 > SYSCALL_DEFINE3(ioctl, unsigned int, fd, unsigned int, cmd, unsigned long, arg) > > Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt > --- > man2/ioctl.2 | 10 +++++----- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/ioctl.2 b/man2/ioctl.2 > index 0a1c432..166c0aa 100644 > --- a/man2/ioctl.2 > +++ b/man2/ioctl.2 > @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ ioctl \- control device > .SH SYNOPSIS > .B #include > .sp > -.BI "int ioctl(int " d ", unsigned long " request ", ...);" > +.BI "int ioctl(int " fd ", unsigned long " request ", ...);" > .\" POSIX says 'request' is int, but glibc has the above > .\" See https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42705 > .SH DESCRIPTION > @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ In particular, many operating characteristics of character special files > .BR ioctl () > requests. > The argument > -.I d > +.I fd > must be an open file descriptor. > .PP > The second argument is a device-dependent request code. > @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ is set appropriately. > .SH ERRORS > .TP 0.7i > .B EBADF > -.I d > +.I fd > is not a valid descriptor. > .TP > .B EFAULT > @@ -108,13 +108,13 @@ or > is not valid. > .TP > .B ENOTTY > -.I d > +.I fd > is not associated with a character special device. > .TP > .B ENOTTY > The specified request does not apply to the kind of object that the > descriptor > -.I d > +.I fd > references. > .SH CONFORMING TO > No single standard. > -- 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