[PATCH] personality.2: Note kernel and glibc versions that introduced this syscall

[PATCH] personality.2: Note kernel and glibc versions that introduced this syscall

[Dmitry V. Levin]

Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv-u2l5PoMzF/Vg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
---
 man2/personality.2 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man2/personality.2 b/man2/personality.2
index d5e3364..f41a339 100644
--- a/man2/personality.2
+++ b/man2/personality.2
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ is set appropriately.
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
 The kernel was unable to change the personality.
+.SH VERSIONS
+This system call first appeared in Linux 1.1.20;
+library support was added in glibc 2.3.
+.\" personality wrapper first appeared in glibc 1.90,
+.\" <sys/personality.h> was added later in 2.2.91.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 .BR personality ()
 is Linux-specific and should not be used in programs intended to

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Re: [PATCH] personality.2: Note kernel and glibc versions that introduced this syscall

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hi Dmitry,

On 12/24/2015 11:47 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv-u2l5PoMzF/Vg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>
> ---
>  man2/personality.2 | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/personality.2 b/man2/personality.2
> index d5e3364..f41a339 100644
> --- a/man2/personality.2
> +++ b/man2/personality.2
> @@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ is set appropriately.
>  .TP
>  .B EINVAL
>  The kernel was unable to change the personality.
> +.SH VERSIONS
> +This system call first appeared in Linux 1.1.20;
> +library support was added in glibc 2.3.
> +.\" personality wrapper first appeared in glibc 1.90,
> +.\" <sys/personality.h> was added later in 2.2.91.
>  .SH CONFORMING TO
>  .BR personality ()
>  is Linux-specific and should not be used in programs intended to

For lack of time, I've tended not to add this kind of
information for longstanding system calls. So, I'm very happy
when someone else adds it :-). Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael


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