Re: epoll_wait.2: epoll_pwait2(2) prototype

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



Hi Alex,

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 05:48:08PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Willem,
> 
> I checked that the prototype of the kernel epoll_pwait2() syscall is 
> different from the one we recently merged; it has one more parameter 
> 'size_t sigsetsize':
> 
> $ grep_syscall epoll_pwait2
> fs/eventpoll.c:2272:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE6(epoll_pwait2, int, epfd, struct epoll_event __user *, 
> events,
> 		int, maxevents, const struct __kernel_timespec __user *, timeout,
> 		const sigset_t __user *, sigmask, size_t, sigsetsize)
> fs/eventpoll.c:2326:
> COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(epoll_pwait2, int, epfd,
> 		       struct epoll_event __user *, events,
> 		       int, maxevents,
> 		       const struct __kernel_timespec __user *, timeout,
> 		       const compat_sigset_t __user *, sigmask,
> 		       compat_size_t, sigsetsize)
> include/linux/compat.h:540:
> asmlinkage long compat_sys_epoll_pwait2(int epfd,
> 			struct epoll_event __user *events,
> 			int maxevents,
> 			const struct __kernel_timespec __user *timeout,
> 			const compat_sigset_t __user *sigmask,
> 			compat_size_t sigsetsize);
> include/linux/syscalls.h:389:
> asmlinkage long sys_epoll_pwait2(int epfd, struct epoll_event __user 
> *events,
> 				 int maxevents,
> 				 const struct __kernel_timespec __user *timeout,
> 				 const sigset_t __user *sigmask,
> 				 size_t sigsetsize);
> 
> I'm could fix the prototype, but maybe there are more changes needed for 
> the manual page.
> 
> Would you mind fixing it?

Looks like the 6th argument of epoll_pwait and epoll_pwait2 syscalls
is already described in "C library/kernel differences" subsection of
epoll_pwait2(2).


-- 
ldv



[Index of Archives]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite News]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux