On 06/02/2016 05:25 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > The convention for man-pages is that new sentences always start > of new source lines. (This makes subsequent patches less "noisy", > since the common unit of change in a text is a sentence.) > Could you fix this throughout please? Yep, I can do that, and I'll also integrate all of your comments, although I won't respond to all of them individually, I will integrate them. >> +no longer be used in any protection-key-related operations. >> +.PP >> +.RB ( pkey_alloc ()) >> +.I flags >> +may contain zero or more disable operations: > > Why "zero or more" rather than "zero or one"? I mean: > what sense could it make to OR together PKEY_DISABLE_ACCESS and > PKEY_DISABLE_WRITE? This is one of the attributes of the hardware that I carried up in to the interfaces. The hardware contains two bits: one to write-disable and one to access-disable. You're allowed to set both at the same time, even though the "access" bit overrules the "write" bit when set. So, it doesn't make a ton of logical sense with these two flags, but it might if we ever got an "execute disable" feature or some other feature that could be combined more arbitrarily. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
