Skimming open(2), I was surprised not to see tmpfs mentioned as a filesystem supported by O_TMPFILE. If I'm understanding correctly (I'm very possibly not!), tmpfs is a filesystem built on shmem, so I think it's more correct (and probably much more widely understandable) to refer to tmpfs here. --- man2/open.2 | 2 +- man2/rename.2 | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2 index b30dc1532..03fff1b65 100644 --- a/man2/open.2 +++ b/man2/open.2 @@ -885,7 +885,7 @@ as described above). requires support by the underlying filesystem; only a subset of Linux filesystems provide that support. In the initial implementation, support was provided in -the ext2, ext3, ext4, UDF, Minix, and shmem filesystems. +the ext2, ext3, ext4, UDF, Minix, and tmpfs filesystems. .\" To check for support, grep for "tmpfile" in kernel sources Support for other filesystems has subsequently been added as follows: XFS (Linux 3.15); diff --git a/man2/rename.2 b/man2/rename.2 index 527bafacf..cb36405fe 100644 --- a/man2/rename.2 +++ b/man2/rename.2 @@ -208,11 +208,11 @@ Support for various filesystems was added as follows: ext4 (Linux 3.15); .\" ext4: commit 0a7c3937a1f23f8cb5fc77ae01661e9968a51d0c .IP * -btrfs, shmem, and cifs (Linux 3.17); +btrfs, tmpfs, and cifs (Linux 3.17); .IP * xfs (Linux 4.0); .\" btrfs: commit 80ace85c915d0f41016f82917218997b72431258 -.\" shmem: commit 3b69ff51d087d265aa4af3a532fc4f20bf33e718 +.\" tmpfs: commit 3b69ff51d087d265aa4af3a532fc4f20bf33e718 .\" cifs: commit 7c33d5972ce382bcc506d16235f1e9b7d22cbef8 .\" .\" gfs2 in 4.2? -- 2.30.0
