[PATCH 1/1] getdents.2: Mention glibc support for getdents64()

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Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@xxxxxxx>
---
 man2/getdents.2 | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/getdents.2 b/man2/getdents.2
index 712d23c58..a6b7aad1f 100644
--- a/man2/getdents.2
+++ b/man2/getdents.2
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ getdents, getdents64 \- get directory entries
 .fi
 .PP
 .IR Note :
-There are no glibc wrappers for these system calls; see NOTES.
+There is no glibc wrapper for getdents().
+Wrapper for getdents64() was added in glibc 2.30; see NOTES.
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 These are not the interfaces you are interested in.
 Look at
@@ -203,9 +204,11 @@ File descriptor does not refer to a directory.
 SVr4.
 .\" SVr4 documents additional ENOLINK, EIO error conditions.
 .SH NOTES
-Glibc does not provide a wrapper for these system calls; call them using
+Library support for getdents64() was added in glibc 2.30;
+there is no glibc wrapper for getdents();
+call getdents() (or getdents64() on earlier versions) requires using
 .BR syscall (2).
-You will need to define the
+In that case you will need to define the
 .I linux_dirent
 or
 .I linux_dirent64
-- 
2.23.0




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