From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3068C433ED for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 07:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7DA6610FA for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 07:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233552AbhEQHwf (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2021 03:52:35 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:34648 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229755AbhEQHwe (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2021 03:52:34 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-x430.google.com (mail-wr1-x430.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::430]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 722BFC061573 for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 00:51:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wr1-x430.google.com with SMTP id h4so5276423wrt.12 for ; Mon, 17 May 2021 00:51:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:from:to:cc:references:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Y9oL9JU8+c8H3KdL8gzR2hlDCaZzB5Pht4VYuqFmnGM=; b=WT4ZuHBaNe7wgSQH9+NpPUuvW01TKarLrlyESBNFHQlsWwdgbQ/u/v0exqNFVflKxa xu6YyNwXfWAiXy88F7N2BO+qEATau8mHImhGvwp47SNjUM+H+zriyXMlPNRnMNYRrZgR kmkf4rvXYiewx76M0SUvybFYCQKN+Bjyg9mysoJmoyCDOSHR8AXdhUicDCFSuPvg3OJt pOwjIbJ6Om+cdmEMgldwSA8K+yDBOzmj5jeVXAh0HYqNnakgX0KKtrIY4VdEH/LjAQSJ PBRPiVj5z72Z07rh5sgnC9VzvdbGiFIPv1HJjYXWnBdehEWJL2OG+A1SMqVsn2c04XI7 MoeQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:from:to:cc:references:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Y9oL9JU8+c8H3KdL8gzR2hlDCaZzB5Pht4VYuqFmnGM=; b=AiqZykL0mvJe5d18B997tyvzb2E2FgPWrpUHZFw2uQRU/Q5DTlqX7B/6HFnPfKqMyG XFBRRC1faQgnrpk0WRtwlpsJkERZsTbjz9YH7ov8xjsROk+ZfsvcYUJY9gi2QLxuqjXE p/8FYUE3K1qWKZMenVBb4odr7YBDx0UgGrpFoXptaEDibDOr95fDVvBFiRfTJEV0k51I R5gGZLKVgjYPGR0PC6ur5AQi4pNdimwNWDWzTZo1QVD6vlM40QNUkZoPoGmSalLXHLSB nLr0ztfIJixfO5EYug2/5hoT2g/k7bOytTeob/xglfMf+OTBFRIeMvlmRujK8OTMGJH1 uI7A== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531EhLs9o8K5Y6WlxLdw1NAz9eeRrBxCO0SejADPV9nYNHnCRqMT U4y/w04WqPUIQS2ruqF85vgRVvuWoKE= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJybm+8pmDk2O6aaWZwTFpI56s4zY9qWo0OKuV+BZvUWjm7na8qh3txsCbpws/6eFF50u/6y7g== X-Received: by 2002:a5d:64c4:: with SMTP id f4mr70319196wri.178.1621237876296; Mon, 17 May 2021 00:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.8.0.106] ([195.53.121.100]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y22sm4215280wma.36.2021.05.17.00.51.15 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 17 May 2021 00:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: system calls not intended for user space From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com Cc: linux-man References: Message-ID: <5cbacfde-8f54-1fef-77cc-6f45d4ae2bd3@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 09:51:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Michael, On 5/17/21 9:47 AM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On 5/17/21 3:04 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 07:25, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) >> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Michael, >>> >>> There are some syscalls that are not intended to be used from user >>> space.  See restart_syscall(2).  Should I document those as >>> syscall(SYS_...) or not? >> >> Yes, this function is an odd case. (Are there others? Perhaps >> sigreturn(2) also.) > > rt_sigqueueinfo.2 maybe, for which, by the way, I sent a patch recently, > so you may prefer to ingore it. > >> >> I think I would just ignore these two. (That is, no changes.) > > Agree.  I sent the patch for rt_sigqueueinfo.2 because in NOTES it > already talked about syscall(2), and by the DESCRIPTION it looks like > it's used by library writers (that's user space). I see you've applied the patch (it was 2/8 that you applied today ()). Check this before pushing and decide :) Cheers, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/