Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Various pages: Normalize NOTES about nonexistent glibc wrappers

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hello Alex and Ganimedes,

On 12/30/20 4:20 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> From: Ganimedes Colomar <gacoan.linux@gmail.com>
> 
> See previous commit.
> 
> This commit normalizes texts under sections other than SYNOPSIS
> (most of them in NOTES).

Good! Patch applied. I made one minor fix; see below.

> Signed-off-by: Ganimedes Colomar <gacoan.linux@gmail.com>
> Cowritten-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
> ---
>  man2/add_key.2              | 2 +-
>  man2/arch_prctl.2           | 6 ++----
>  man2/getdents.2             | 8 ++++----
>  man2/io_cancel.2            | 2 +-
>  man2/io_destroy.2           | 2 +-
>  man2/io_getevents.2         | 2 +-
>  man2/io_setup.2             | 2 +-
>  man2/io_submit.2            | 2 +-
>  man2/kexec_load.2           | 3 +--
>  man2/keyctl.2               | 2 +-
>  man2/pidfd_getfd.2          | 2 +-
>  man2/pidfd_open.2           | 2 +-
>  man2/pidfd_send_signal.2    | 2 +-
>  man2/request_key.2          | 2 +-
>  man2/s390_guarded_storage.2 | 3 +--
>  man2/s390_pci_mmio_write.2  | 3 +--
>  man2/s390_runtime_instr.2   | 3 +--
>  man2/s390_sthyi.2           | 3 +--
>  man2/seccomp.2              | 3 +++
>  man2/sysctl.2               | 3 +--
>  20 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 

[...]

> --- a/man2/kexec_load.2
> +++ b/man2/kexec_load.2
> @@ -335,8 +335,7 @@ system call first appeared in Linux 3.17.
>  .SH CONFORMING TO
>  These system calls are Linux-specific.
>  .SH NOTES
> -Currently, there is no glibc support for these system calls.
> -Call them using
> +Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using

I changed to: "... these system calls; call them using..."

Thanks,

Michael

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