On 06/22/2018 03:26 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2018, Joe Lawrence wrote: > >> The linux kernel has added STAT_ANY variants to the shmctl(), semctl(), >> and msgctl() shared memory functions. Add descriptions for these new >> cmd values. >> >> The text is adopted directly from Davidlohr Bueso's <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> upstream linux kernel commits: >> >> ipc/shm: introduce shmctl(SHM_STAT_ANY) >> ipc/sem: introduce semctl(SEM_STAT_ANY) >> ipc/msg: introduce msgctl(MSG_STAT_ANY) >> >> [ ... snip ... ] >> > I had written one after this stuff was merged upstream: > > Please see https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/20/715 > Hi Davidlohr, So an update was already written, then NACK to my repost of your own words from the kernel commit msgs. Your version on lkml looks good, though I have one question about this hunk: > diff --git a/man2/msgctl.2 b/man2/msgctl.2 > index df74c750457a..31b1a1f12fb0 100644 > --- a/man2/msgctl.2 > +++ b/man2/msgctl.2 > ... > @@ -222,10 +223,23 @@ Return a > structure as for > .BR IPC_STAT . > However, the > -.I msqid > +.I msgid > argument is not a queue identifier, but instead an index into > the kernel's internal array that maintains information about > all message queues on the system. According to the rest of the manual page and indeed sys/msg.h, this argument is referred to as "msgid" and not "msqid". Was this meant to have been modified? Thanks, -- Joe -- 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
