Hello SImone, On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Simone Piccardi <piccardi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In man 2 syncfs (version 2011-09-07, also in the website) it is declared as: > > void syncfs(int fd); > > but then is said: > > RETURN VALUE > syncfs() returns 0 on success; on error, it returns -1 and > sets errno to indicate the error. > > so it cannot be void. I get > > piccardi@monk:/usr/src/linux-source-3.1$ grep -r syncfs include/* > include/asm-generic/unistd.h:#define __NR_syncfs 267 > include/asm-generic/unistd.h:__SYSCALL(__NR_syncfs, sys_syncfs) > include/linux/syscalls.h:asmlinkage long sys_syncfs(int fd); > > So it seems to be at least long. Thanks for the report! In glibc, the prototype is "int", so for man-pages-3.36 I've changed it to "int". 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
