Hi Alex, On Mon, 17 May 2021 at 19:51, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > On 5/17/21 9:47 AM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > On 5/17/21 3:04 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> Hi Alex, > >> > >> On Fri, 14 May 2021 at 07:25, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) > >> <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello Michael, > >>> > >>> There are some syscalls that are not intended to be used from user > >>> space. See restart_syscall(2). Should I document those as > >>> syscall(SYS_...) or not? > >> > >> Yes, this function is an odd case. (Are there others? Perhaps > >> sigreturn(2) also.) > > > > rt_sigqueueinfo.2 maybe, for which, by the way, I sent a patch recently, > > so you may prefer to ingore it. > > > >> > >> I think I would just ignore these two. (That is, no changes.) > > > > Agree. I sent the patch for rt_sigqueueinfo.2 because in NOTES it > > already talked about syscall(2), and by the DESCRIPTION it looks like > > it's used by library writers (that's user space). > > > I see you've applied the patch (it was 2/8 that you applied today > (<https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20210515182027.186403-2-alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u>)). > Check this before pushing and decide :) D'oh! Thanks for catching that. In the meantime, I will drop that patch. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
