Jeremy Kerr wrote: > .. also, add entries for type==9 and type==10 to the RETURN VALUES > section. > > Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > man2/syslog.2 | 7 ++++++- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > Index: man-pages-2.77/man2/syslog.2 > =================================================================== > --- man-pages-2.77.orig/man2/syslog.2 > +++ man-pages-2.77/man2/syslog.2 > @@ -195,7 +195,12 @@ Otherwise, > for \fItype\fP equal to 2, 3 or 4, > .BR syslog () > returns the number > -of bytes read, and otherwise 0. > +of bytes read, > +for \fItype\fP equal to 9, > +the number of number of unread characters in the log buffer, > +for \fItype\fP equal to 10, > +the total size of the log buffer, > +and otherwise 0. > .SH ERRORS > .TP > .B EINVAL Hi Jeremy, Thanks. I applied something like this (did a little reworking of that section) for man-pages-2.79. Cheers, Michael .SH "RETURN VALUE" -In case of error, \-1 is returned, and \fIerrno\fP is set. -Otherwise, -for \fItype\fP equal to 2, 3 or 4, +For \fItype\fP equal to 2, 3, or 4, a successful call to .BR syslog () returns the number -of bytes read, and otherwise 0. +of bytes read. +For \fItype\fP 9, +.BR syslog () +returns the number of bytes currently +available to be read on the kernel log buffer. +For \fItype\fP 10, +.BR syslog () +returns the total size of the kernel log buffer. +For other values of \fItype\fP, 0 is returned on success. + +In case of error, \-1 is returned, +and \fIerrno\fP is set to indicate the error. -- 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
