On 06/29/2017 06:17 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > getcontext.3: Exemplar structure should use 'ucontext_t'. > > In glibc we just finished a round of purging 'struct ucontext' which > is not in the POSIX reserved namespace of *_t tags. This has some > consequences to applications using the non-standard struct ucontext: > https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.26#Removal_of_.27struct_ucontext.27 > but it also fixes a namespace conformance issue which is always a longterm > pain for large portable programs. > > It was noted by Peter Maydell (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21457) > that the linux man pages still had references to 'struct ucontext' but only in > the form of an exemplar structure. > > The following patch fixes the exemplar to match what is in glibc and therefore > it won't ever suggest users can use 'struct ucontext'. > > Applies to master. Thanks, Carlos. Applied. Cheers, Michael > Please apply. > > Signed-off-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > diff --git a/man3/getcontext.3 b/man3/getcontext.3 > index c31a46b..de54d12 100644 > --- a/man3/getcontext.3 > +++ b/man3/getcontext.3 > @@ -57,11 +57,11 @@ the following fields: > .in +4 > .nf > > -typedef struct ucontext { > - struct ucontext *uc_link; > - sigset_t uc_sigmask; > - stack_t uc_stack; > - mcontext_t uc_mcontext; > +typedef struct ucontext_t { > + struct ucontext_t *uc_link; > + sigset_t uc_sigmask; > + stack_t uc_stack; > + mcontext_t uc_mcontext; > ... > } ucontext_t; > > -- 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
