On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 04:29:37AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 01:20:01PM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote: > > On 4 December 2017 at 12:04, Karel Zak wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 12:51:16PM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote: > [...] > > >> \fB\-\-4gb\fR > > >> -Ignored (for backward compatibility only). > > >> +Ignored for backward compatibility only. > > > > > > Dmitry is right, the old version is better. > > > > How about text: > > > > This option is no-op compatibility with an old Debian setarch > > implementation. Please do not use. > > Let's add a description that is informative but without giving advice. Yes, and without any distro name... > For example, > > "This option has no effect. It is retained for backward compatibility only, > and may be removed in future releases." +1 > > How about this: > > > > -- snip > > This makes > > .BR select (2), > > .BR pselect (2), > > and > > .BR ppoll (2) > > system calls preserve the timeout value instead of storing the unslept time > > I'm not sure about "unslept time" phrase. Wouldn't a more formal > description be better, .e.g. > > This makes > ... > system calls preserve the timeout value instead of modifying it to reflect > the amount of time not slept when interrupted by a signal handler. > ... +1 > > > when interrupted by a signal handler. Use when > > .I program > > depends on this behavior. For more details see the timeout description from > > s/from/in/ > > > .BR select (2) > > manual page. Turns on STICKY_TIMEOUTS. > > -- snip > > On the whole, this looks much better. > > > My remote git has the latest. > > > > https://github.com/kerolasa/lelux-utiliteetit/blob/2017wk48/sys-utils/setarch.8 > > > > And that branch also has FIXME item near FDPIC_FUNCPTRS description. > > Proposal(s) welcome how to make that text understandable. > > What about this text: > > "Treat user-space function pointers to signal handlers as pointers > to address descriptors. This option has no effect on architectures > that do not support FDPIC ELF binaries. Turns on FDPIC_FUNCPTRS." Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
