On 03/21/2014 06:30 PM, Kir Kolyshkin wrote: > Remove reference to update(8) man page, since there is no such > page. This is an ancient BSD leftover I believe. > > [v2: updated to git tip] Hello Kir, Thanks for that. By chance I was puzzling over that very reference myself recently, but was unaware of the BSD connection. The update(8) reference was present right back in man-pages-1.0 (1993), and tehre was no update.8 page in the set then. That plus a little Googling suggests your hypothesis is correct. Patch applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kir@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man2/bdflush.2 | 3 +-- > man2/fsync.2 | 3 +-- > man2/sync.2 | 3 +-- > 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/bdflush.2 b/man2/bdflush.2 > index 796d8f2..b84e5bf 100644 > --- a/man2/bdflush.2 > +++ b/man2/bdflush.2 > @@ -119,5 +119,4 @@ intended to be portable. > .SH SEE ALSO > .BR fsync (2), > .BR sync (2), > -.BR sync (8), > -.BR update (8) > +.BR sync (8) > diff --git a/man2/fsync.2 b/man2/fsync.2 > index 66278fa..5578e4c 100644 > --- a/man2/fsync.2 > +++ b/man2/fsync.2 > @@ -166,5 +166,4 @@ to guarantee safe operation. > .BR sync_file_range (2), > .BR hdparm (8), > .BR mount (8), > -.BR sync (8), > -.BR update (8) > +.BR sync (8) > diff --git a/man2/sync.2 b/man2/sync.2 > index 11ba1e4..a597d19 100644 > --- a/man2/sync.2 > +++ b/man2/sync.2 > @@ -120,5 +120,4 @@ large caches.) > .BR bdflush (2), > .BR fdatasync (2), > .BR fsync (2), > -.BR sync (8), > -.BR update (8) > +.BR sync (8) > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
