Thanks Jeremy. Applied for man-pages-2.79. One comment below. Jeremy Kerr wrote: > The type=6 and above options to syslog aren't documented, so > add a sentence about each. > > Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > man2/syslog.2 | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) > > Index: man-pages-2.77/man2/syslog.2 > =================================================================== > --- man-pages-2.77.orig/man2/syslog.2 > +++ man-pages-2.77/man2/syslog.2 > @@ -115,6 +115,39 @@ The call > .RI (5, dummy , idummy ) > only executes the "clear ring buffer" command. > > +The call > +.BR syslog () > +.RI (6, dummy , dummy ) Here you are replicating a bad formatting glitch that I introduced a while back when doing a semiautomated edit of this page a while back. I reformatted these as simply .I syslog(6,dummy,dummy) etc. Cheers, Michael > +sets the console log level to minimum, so that no messages are printed > +to the console. > + > +The call > +.BR syslog () > +.RI (7, dummy , dummy ) > +sets the console log level to default, so that messages are printed > +to the console. > + > +The call > +.BR syslog () > +.RI (8, dummy , level ) > +sets the console log level to > +.IR level . > +Which is an integer between 1 and 8 (inclusive). I made that last piece: The call .I syslog(8,dummy,level) sets the console log level to .IR level , which must be an integer between 1 and 8 (inclusive). > +See the > +.B loglevel > +section for details. > + > +The call > +.BR syslog () > +.RI (9, dummy , dummy ) > +queries and returns the number of bytes currently available to be read > +on the kernel log buffer. > + > +The call > +.BR syslog () > +.RI (10, dummy , dummy ) > +queries and returns the total size of the kernel log buffer. > + > .B The loglevel > .br > The kernel routine > -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
