[PATCH] man/man2/copy_file_range.2: ffix

[PATCH] man/man2/copy_file_range.2: ffix

[Thomas Voss]

Hi!

Just came across this formatting issue in copy_file_range(2).  I went
ahead and wrote a quick fix and also did some searching for similar bugs
across the rest of the manuals with Awk, but didn’t come across
anything.

— Thomas

Signed-off-by: Thomas Voss <mail@tvoss.eu>
---
 man/man2/copy_file_range.2 | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/man2/copy_file_range.2 b/man/man2/copy_file_range.2
index de502867d..a8ed82c4f 100644
--- a/man/man2/copy_file_range.2
+++ b/man/man2/copy_file_range.2
@@ -211,7 +211,8 @@ provided a user-space fallback implementation when the kernel did not
 implement this system call.
 .\" glibc.git 5a659ccc0ec2 (2019-06-28; "io: Remove copy_file_range emulation [BZ #24744]")
 Since glibc 2.30, that fallback has been removed; the function now
-fails with ENOSYS if the kernel lacks support for .BR copy_file_range ().
+fails with ENOSYS if the kernel lacks support for
+.BR copy_file_range ().
 .SH NOTES
 If
 .I fd_in
-- 
2.54.0

Re: [PATCH] man/man2/copy_file_range.2: ffix

[Alejandro Colomar]

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On 2026-05-14T00:01:53+0200, Thomas Voss wrote:
> Hi!

Hi Thomas!

> 
> Just came across this formatting issue in copy_file_range(2).  I went
> ahead and wrote a quick fix and also did some searching for similar bugs
> across the rest of the manuals with Awk, but didn’t come across
> anything.
> 
> — Thomas
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Voss <mail@tvoss.eu>

Thanks!  I've applied the patch.


Have a lovely night!
Alex

> ---
>  man/man2/copy_file_range.2 | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man2/copy_file_range.2 b/man/man2/copy_file_range.2
> index de502867d..a8ed82c4f 100644
> --- a/man/man2/copy_file_range.2
> +++ b/man/man2/copy_file_range.2
> @@ -211,7 +211,8 @@ provided a user-space fallback implementation when the kernel did not
>  implement this system call.
>  .\" glibc.git 5a659ccc0ec2 (2019-06-28; "io: Remove copy_file_range emulation [BZ #24744]")
>  Since glibc 2.30, that fallback has been removed; the function now
> -fails with ENOSYS if the kernel lacks support for .BR copy_file_range ().
> +fails with ENOSYS if the kernel lacks support for
> +.BR copy_file_range ().
>  .SH NOTES
>  If
>  .I fd_in
> -- 
> 2.54.0
> 
> 

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