Re: [PATCH] splice.2, tee.2, vmsplice.2: Update return type

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Hi Mark

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Mark Hills <mark@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Return type is ssize_t since glibc-2.7, see /usr/include/bits/fcntl.h

Thanks. Applied for man-pages 3.23.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  man2/splice.2   |    4 ++--
>  man2/tee.2      |    2 +-
>  man2/vmsplice.2 |    4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man2/splice.2 b/man2/splice.2
> index d9c192a..1d4b74f 100644
> --- a/man2/splice.2
> +++ b/man2/splice.2
> @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ splice \- splice data to/from a pipe
>  .B #define _GNU_SOURCE
>  .B #include <fcntl.h>
>
> -.BI "long splice(int " fd_in ", loff_t *" off_in ", int " fd_out ,
> -.BI "            loff_t *" off_out ", size_t " len \
> +.BI "ssize_t splice(int " fd_in ", loff_t *" off_in ", int " fd_out ,
> +.BI "               loff_t *" off_out ", size_t " len \
>  ", unsigned int " flags );
>  .fi
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
> diff --git a/man2/tee.2 b/man2/tee.2
> index 323bee5..feda6c8 100644
> --- a/man2/tee.2
> +++ b/man2/tee.2
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ tee \- duplicating pipe content
>  .B #define _GNU_SOURCE
>  .B #include <fcntl.h>
>
> -.BI "long tee(int " fd_in ", int " fd_out ", size_t " len \
> +.BI "ssize_t tee(int " fd_in ", int " fd_out ", size_t " len \
>  ", unsigned int " flags );
>  .fi
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
> diff --git a/man2/vmsplice.2 b/man2/vmsplice.2
> index 2c95893..91b2d04 100644
> --- a/man2/vmsplice.2
> +++ b/man2/vmsplice.2
> @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ vmsplice \- splice user pages into a pipe
>  .B #include <fcntl.h>
>  .B #include <sys/uio.h>
>
> -.BI "long vmsplice(int " fd ", const struct iovec *" iov ,
> -.BI "              unsigned long " nr_segs ", unsigned int " flags );
> +.BI "ssize_t vmsplice(int " fd ", const struct iovec *" iov ,
> +.BI "                 unsigned long " nr_segs ", unsigned int " flags );
>  .fi
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
>  .\" Linus: vmsplice() system call to basically do a "write to
> --
> 1.6.3.2
>
>



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