Re: [PATCH] man/man2const/F_{ADD,GET}_SEALS.2const: document F_SEAL_EXEC

[Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>]

On Fri, May 29 2026, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

> Hi Pratyush,
>
> On 2026-05-29T14:40:44+0200, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
>> From: "Pratyush Yadav (Google)" <pratyush@kernel.org>
>> 
>> F_SEAL_EXEC was added in Linux v6.3. It seals the exec bits of the
>> memfd. Document it.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org>
>> ---
>> 
>> Notes:
>>     I discovered this was missing when working on [0]. I had to look at the
>>     code to figure out how it was supposed to behave.
>>     
>>     Disclaimer: I used help from Gemini to write this patch, mainly because
>>     I don't know the man page syntax. If the man-pages project also uses the
>>     AI-assisted tags as Linux, feel free to add:
>>     
>>     Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.1-pro
>
> 	$ head -n13 CONTRIBUTING.d/ai 
> 	Name
> 		AI - artificial intelligence policy
>
> 	Description
> 		It is expressly forbidden to contribute to this project any
> 		content that has been created or derived with the assistance of
> 		AI tools.
>
> 		This includes AI assistive tools used in the contributing
> 		process, even if such tools do not directly generate the
> 		contributed code but are used to derive the contribution.  For
> 		example, AI linters, AI static analyzers, and AI tools that
> 		summarize input are forbidden.

Oh, well, that's a bummer :-(. I do understand the concerns, especially
the copyright one, but unfortunately I'm bummed about redoing an
otherwise perfectly good patch. These AI tools do make this sort of
stuff a tad bit easier.

Anyway, as you say, the amount of text is relatively small so I can redo
it by hand.

>
> If you only used it for formatting, and the text is entirely yours, I
> guess you'll be able to write it again from scratch easily (it's not
> a lot of text, anyway).
>
> To proceed clean, you should remove the patch entirely, and write it
> again from scratch, only looking at surrounding code and other pages,
> but not looking at the contaminated patch.
>
> If you have any doubts about the man(7) language, I can help, or even
> fix things for you (as long as it's reasonably easy to do so).
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Have a lovely day!
> Alex

-- 
Regards,
Pratyush Yadav