On 07/31/2014 05:01 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This seems to be a remnant from the times when man-pages > shipped a sync(8). Thanks, Adrian. Applied. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > man2/bdflush.2 | 2 +- > man2/fsync.2 | 2 +- > man2/sync.2 | 2 +- > man5/proc.5 | 2 +- > 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/bdflush.2 b/man2/bdflush.2 > index 7b7f28c..c44dd4f 100644 > --- a/man2/bdflush.2 > +++ b/man2/bdflush.2 > @@ -119,4 +119,4 @@ intended to be portable. > .SH SEE ALSO > .BR fsync (2), > .BR sync (2), > -.BR sync (8) > +.BR sync (1) > diff --git a/man2/fsync.2 b/man2/fsync.2 > index 630e90a..ec2f710 100644 > --- a/man2/fsync.2 > +++ b/man2/fsync.2 > @@ -166,4 +166,4 @@ to guarantee safe operation. > .BR sync_file_range (2), > .BR hdparm (8), > .BR mount (8), > -.BR sync (8) > +.BR sync (1) > diff --git a/man2/sync.2 b/man2/sync.2 > index f21a38b..3547bec 100644 > --- a/man2/sync.2 > +++ b/man2/sync.2 > @@ -120,4 +120,4 @@ large caches.) > .BR bdflush (2), > .BR fdatasync (2), > .BR fsync (2), > -.BR sync (8) > +.BR sync (1) > diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 > index 040db32..2c1afde 100644 > --- a/man5/proc.5 > +++ b/man5/proc.5 > @@ -3731,7 +3731,7 @@ To free pagecache, dentries and inodes, use: > Because writing to this file is a nondestructive operation and dirty objects > are not freeable, the > user should run > -.BR sync (8) > +.BR sync (1) > first. > .TP > .IR /proc/sys/vm/legacy_va_layout " (since Linux 2.6.9)" > -- 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