Re: [PATCH 2/2] Various pages: Normalize NOTES about non-existing glibc wrappers

["Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Michael,

Please, see a comment below.

Thanks,

Alex

On 12/29/20 9:32 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Alex, Ganimedes,
> 
> Again, in the subject line, s/
> 
> non-existing/nonexistent/
> 
> [...]
> 
>> --- a/man2/getdents.2
>> +++ b/man2/getdents.2
>> @@ -211,13 +211,13 @@ SVr4.
>>  Library support for
>>  .BR getdents64 ()
>>  was added in glibc 2.30;
>> -there is no glibc wrapper for
>> -.BR getdents ().
>> -Calling
>> +Glibc does not provide a wrapper for
>> +.BR getdents ();
>> +call
> 
> s/call/calling/

See below

> 
>>  .BR getdents ()
>>  (or
>>  .BR getdents64 ()
>> -on earlier glibc versions) requires the use of
>> +on earlier glibc versions) using

The new version is 'Call XXX using syscall(2).'.

>>  .BR syscall (2).
>>  In that case you will need to define the
>>  .I linux_dirent
> 
> [...]
> 
> Again, the only reason I'm not making these patches and making the
> minor fixes is in case you find some other pages that might be added
> to the patch. Let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 

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