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Wong" References: <409ec862-de32-4ea0-aae3-73ac6a59cc25@kernel.dk> From: Jens Axboe Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 8/17/25 10:01 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Jens, > > On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 11:25:52AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: >>> Other than this comments, the text looks good to me. Thanks! >> >> I kind of walked away from this one as I didn't have time or motivation >> to push it forward. FWIW, if you want to massage it into submission >> that'd be greatly appreciated. I'm not a regular man page contributor >> nor do I aim to be, but I do feel like we should this feature >> documented. > > I understand your lack of interest in writing quality man(7) source code > if that means iterations of patches. However, you may find the build It's not really lack of interest, it's just that there's only so much time and the idea of a back and forth on documentation isn't high on the list :-) > system helpful to find some of the most obvious mistakes by yourself. > This might help you in future patches. > > $ make lint-man build-all -R > TROFF .tmp/man/man2/readv.2.cat.set > an.tmac:.tmp/man/man2/readv.2:316: style: .IR expects at least 2 arguments, got 1 > an.tmac:.tmp/man/man2/readv.2:395: style: .IR expects at least 2 arguments, got 1 > make: *** [/srv/alx/src/linux/man-pages/man-pages/contrib/share/mk/build/catman/troff.mk:66: .tmp/man/man2/readv.2.cat.set] Error 1 > make: *** Deleting file '.tmp/man/man2/readv.2.cat.set' I'll remember for next time! > Here's a diff with all the issues I raised fixed. Please add a commit > message, and I'll apply it. Beautiful, thank you! Maybe paste the same section into writev.2 as well? For commit message, something ala man/man2/readv.2: document RWF_DONTCACHE Add a description of the RWF_DONTCACHE IO flag, which tells the kernel that any page cache instantiated by this IO, should be dropped when the operation has completed. ? -- Jens Axboe