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On 11/2/20 2:12 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > > On 2020-11-02 14:09, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hi Alex, >> >> On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 13:20, Alejandro Colomar >> wrote: >>> >>> On 2020-11-02 08:37, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>>   > Hi Alex, >>>   > >>>   > On 11/1/20 2:59 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >>>   >> The Linux kernel uses a long as the return type for this syscall. >>>   >> As glibc provides no wrapper, use the same types the kernel uses. >>>   > >>>   > I think we need this patch for all of the io* pages, right? >>> >>> Hi Michael, >>> >>> For some reason, no.  AFAICS, only io_setup() really uses 'long'. >> >> But is not SYSCALL_DEFINEX() producing a prototype with return value >> 'long' in all the cases? (I have not checked, I just presume so.) > > Hi Michael, > > Well, yes. > SYSCALL_DEFINEx() produces a return type of long > for _all_ syscalls, AFAICS. > (as I said before, that macro is a bit obscure, but I can read that). > > Would you like to change all syscall man pages (without a wrapper) > to use long as the return type? > > Thanks. > > Alex > >> >> Thanks, >> >> Michael >> >> >> >>