Hello Dave, On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Davidlohr Bueso <dave.bueso@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently ran into the sysfs(2) call and noticed that the manpage does > not specify what header file(s) to include to use it. Now, is this > because of the lack of libc/glibc support (hence no wrapper available)? > > If so, I think we should add this problem in the BUGS section of the > page, and put something like: > > syscall(SYS_sysfs, number); > > Any comments would be appreciated. sysfs() is obsolete. Probably nothing uses it any more, and nothing new should, so explaining how to use it seems redundant. What I did do was clarify that it is obsolete. The change below is for man-pages-3.26. Cheers, Michael --- a/man2/sysfs.2 +++ b/man2/sysfs.2 @@ -90,12 +90,12 @@ is invalid. .SH "CONFORMING TO" SVr4. .SH NOTES -On Linux with the -.I proc -file system mounted on +This System-V derived system call is obsolete; don't use it. +On systems with .IR /proc , -the same information can be derived from -.IR /proc/filesystems . +the the same information can be obtained via +.IR /proc/filesystems ; +use that interface instead. .SH BUGS There is no libc or glibc support. There is no way to guess how large \fIbuf\fP should be. -- 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
