https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75431 Bug ID: 75431 Summary: posix_fadvise(2): wrong param name? Product: Documentation Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: low Priority: P1 Component: man-pages Assignee: documentation_man-pages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reporter: pub08-knl@xxxxxxxxx Regression: No In posix_fadvise(2), under "Architecture-specific variants", it says: [Due to register-alignment issues,] ... the call signature of posix_fadvise() shown in the SYNOPSIS would force a register to be wasted as padding between the fd and len arguments. Should it say "offset" instead of "len" in the last line of that quoted bit? Rationale: the SYNOPSIS shows a call signature of: int posix_fadvise(int fd, off_t offset, off_t len, int advice); in which: - fd and len aren't adjacent - it's between a shorter value followed by a longer one that I'd expect alignment padding to be needed, and the only pair where that occurs is (fd, offset) CAVEAT: I'm not familiar with either the syscall or the specific alignment issues in question, so my guess about this is just that -- a deduced guess, NOT specific knowledge. So don't make the change on my say-so; please verify it first! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- 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
