Hello Joe, On 10/15/18 8:35 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote: > On 06/22/2018 03:40 PM, Joe Lawrence wrote: >> 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? > > I just noticed that neither (my or Davidlohr's) proposed update has made > it into the docs for the stat_any commands. > > If I remember correctly they are effectively the same, so either would > suffice. Thanks for the persistent pings... Sorry for the delay in following up... Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
