Hi Stephan, On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Stephan Mueller <stephan.mueller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am Samstag, 9. Oktober 2010, um 06:50:29 schrieb Michael Kerrisk: > > Hi Michael, > >> [Was: man pages for undocumented system calls] >> >> Stephan, >> >> The situation here is similar to sync_file_range, but specific to ARM. >> The documentation would better be in the posix_fadvise() page, should >> explicitly note that this system call is for ARM only, and should note >> why the system call exists. For man-pages-3.29, I applied the patch >> below. > > Same here, I think your approach is better than a stand-alone man page. > > Nevertheless, are you going to please add a symlink from posix_fadvise.2.gz to > arm_fadvise.2.gz? Thanks for reminding me of this, but in fact I already made such a link. I added a link arm_fadvise64_64.2, since that is the precise name of the system call. But, on reflection, perhaps it does not hurt to also add a link arm_fadvise.2, so I've also added that one now. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
