Re: outb.2: What to do with prototypes?

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Hello Alex,

On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 13:59, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
<alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> What would you do with the prototypes in outb.2?
> They are different in glibc and the kernel.
> However, since these are functions to be called mostly withing the
> kernel, the kernel prototype is more important.  Would you use the glibc
> one in SYNOPSIS, and then a C library / kernel differences with the
> kernel prototypes?

Are the glibc APIs wrappers for the kernel interpreters?

Thanks,

Michael


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