Re: [PATCH 23/23] close_range.2: Glibc added a wrapper recently

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-08-08T20:58:38Z

Hi Alex,

On 8/8/21 10:41 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Fixes: c2356ba085ed4f748b81c0ceeba1811b4a549e1c
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>

Thanks. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
> man2/close_range.2 | 5 -----
> 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man2/close_range.2 b/man2/close_range.2
> index ca84dc448..0bb5de436 100644
> --- a/man2/close_range.2
> +++ b/man2/close_range.2
> @@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ close_range \- close all file descriptors in a given range
> .BI "int close_range(unsigned int " first ", unsigned int " last ,
> .BI " unsigned int " flags );
> .fi
> -.PP
> -.IR Note :
> -There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES.
> .SH DESCRIPTION
> The
> .BR close_range ()
> @@ -100,8 +97,6 @@ Library support was added in glibc in version 2.34.
> .BR close_range ()
> is a nonstandard function that is also present on FreeBSD.
> .SH NOTES
> -Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
> -.BR syscall (2).
> .SS Closing all open file descriptors
> .\" 278a5fbaed89dacd04e9d052f4594ffd0e0585de
> To avoid blindly closing file descriptors
>

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