Re: BLKGETSIZE64 not documented

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On 2014-01-17 23:03 +1300, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Andre Majorel <aym-xunil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [Re-sending this as it seems to have fallen through the cracks.]
> >
> > No trace of BLKGETSIZE64 in
> > www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/man-pages/man-pages-3.54.tar.xz
> >
> > I think it should be listed along BLKGETSIZE in sd(4).
> >
> > Probably applies to fd(4) and hd(4) too.
> >
> > And of course ioctl_list(2) but completing _that_ one sounds
> > like a major project in itself. <g>
> >
> > Note that /usr/include/linux/fs.h quotes the argument as being
> > "*u64" but I believe that it would be better written as
> > "*uint64_t", which is standard.
> >
> > There may be other related ioctl()s missing, like those used in
> > blockdev(8), I'm reporting the one I'm sure about.
> 
> Would you be able to write a patch for this?

Hello Michael. If I knew how to list which ioctls a device
supports, I wouldn't need the man page. :-/

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André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
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