On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mihail Paraschivescu <paraschivescu_mihail@xxxxxxxxx> reported > here: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-man&m=127160667709342&w=2 > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-man/msg01271.html > > the following: > > "The queue capacity is defined by the msg_bytes field in > the associated data structure for the message queue." > > If I'm not wrong, the exact name of that field in the > msqid_ds structure is msg_qbytes. The same thing appears > also on the online [POSIX] manual pages, I checked it > already. > > I provided a detailed confirmation with quotes from the > Linux kernel sources: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-man&m=127181601631737&w=2 > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-man/msg01273.html > > This patch (requested by Mihail) makes the correction and > removes unnecessary implementation details. Michael, thanks for this patch, but see my notes in the thread: Subject: Re: Man page typo To: Michael Witten <mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mihai Paraschivescu <paraschivescu_mihail@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I don't think this patch is needed (other than the part that fixes the file names). Cheers, Michael > --- > man2/msgop.2 | 16 ++++++++-------- > 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/msgop.2 b/man2/msgop.2 > index 2b29cac..f236c5a 100644 > --- a/man2/msgop.2 > +++ b/man2/msgop.2 > @@ -102,14 +102,14 @@ by > .PP > If sufficient space is available in the queue, > .BR msgsnd () > -succeeds immediately. > +succeeds immediately; > -(The queue capacity is defined by the > -.I msg_bytes > -field in the associated data structure for the message queue. > -During queue creation this field is initialized to > -.B MSGMNB > -bytes, but this limit can be modified using > -.BR msgctl (2).) > +the queue capacity can be queried and set via > +.BR msgctl (2) > +by using the > +.I msg_qbytes > +field of that function's > +.I msqid_ds > +pointer parameter. > If insufficient space is available in the queue, then the default > behavior of > .BR msgsnd () > -- > 1.7.1 > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- 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
