On 2/22/19 5:26 PM, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote: > Some architectures do provide l_sysid delcaration in struct flock; > however, it is not used anyway. Thanks, Eugene. Patch applied. Cheers, Michael > > * man2/fcntl.2 (.SH NOTES): Note that l_sysid field is not used on Linux > even if present on some architectures. > > Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > man2/fcntl.2 | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man2/fcntl.2 b/man2/fcntl.2 > index 03533d6..accadee 100644 > --- a/man2/fcntl.2 > +++ b/man2/fcntl.2 > @@ -1921,7 +1921,9 @@ such as, for example, > Clearly, > .I l_pid > alone is not going to be very useful if the process holding the lock > -may live on a different machine. > +may live on a different machine; > +on Linux, while present on some architectures (such as MIPS32), > +this field is not used. > .PP > The original Linux > .BR fcntl () > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
