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* bug in open(2) example
@ 2021-02-26 17:10 Walter Harms
  2021-02-26 20:03 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Walter Harms @ 2021-02-26 17:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-man@vger.kernel.org

Hi List,

the example for O_TMPFILE is broken:
  linkat(fd, NULL, AT_FDCWD, "/path/for/file", AT_EMPTY_PATH);
                     ^^^^^^
as the linkat(2) page says "Empty String" not NULL.

see:https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/open.2.html

re,
 wh

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* Re: bug in open(2) example
  2021-02-26 17:10 bug in open(2) example Walter Harms
@ 2021-02-26 20:03 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) @ 2021-02-26 20:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Walter Harms, linux-man@vger.kernel.org; +Cc: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

Hi Walter,

On 2/26/21 6:10 PM, Walter Harms wrote:
> the example for O_TMPFILE is broken:
>    linkat(fd, NULL, AT_FDCWD, "/path/for/file", AT_EMPTY_PATH);
>                       ^^^^^^
> as the linkat(2) page says "Empty String" not NULL.

Thanks!  I'll send a patch to Michael.

Cheers,

Alex

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