Re: [Patch] Fix the prototype of personality(2)

["Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Cong,

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 1:04 PM, WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>  According to the source code of Linux kernel, the type of the
>  return value of personality(2) should be long instead of int.

But in <sys/personality.h>, the return type is long...  So it seems to
me the page is correct.  Let me know if/why you still disagree.

Cheers,

Michael


>  Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
>
>  ---
>
>  Index: man-pages-2.78/man2/personality.2
>  ===================================================================
>  --- man-pages-2.78.orig/man2/personality.2
>  +++ man-pages-2.78/man2/personality.2
>  @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ personality \- set the process execution
>   .SH SYNOPSIS
>   .B #include <sys/personality.h>
>   .sp
>  -.BI "int personality(unsigned long " persona );
>  +.BI "long personality(unsigned long " persona );
>   .SH DESCRIPTION
>   Linux supports different execution domains, or personalities, for each
>   process.
>



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