Hello Alyssa, On 2/10/21 6:42 PM, Alyssa Ross wrote: > 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. Agreed. Thanks for the patch. I've applied. Cheers, Michael > --- > 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? > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
