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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-05-19 15:02:16 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-05-20 12:04:12 +0200 |
| commit | 12ff884e9ef392a5eb36a3f7a3c81a4185de5c16 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ab4c90854e4be5879125516e53eea2f9afc9fe7 | |
| parent | 7fd1e0f2be216a5e7f7aef0d03304bdf81bca9e0 (diff) | |
open.2, prctl.2: SYNOPSIS: Document these as variadic functions
I remember I discussed this with Michael Kerrisk a long ago and we
agreed to apply this fix, as I felt that using overload syntax was
confusing (especially since C doesn't allow overloads), but then I
didn't feel urged to write a patch. Florian confirmed recently that
this is confusing to more programmers, so let's do it.
Link: <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216876#c1>
Reported-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/open.2 | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/prctl.2 | 5 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2 index f79330a17..4c921723c 100644 --- a/man2/open.2 +++ b/man2/open.2 @@ -38,18 +38,17 @@ Standard C library .nf .B #include <fcntl.h> .PP -.BI "int open(const char *" pathname ", int " flags ); -.BI "int open(const char *" pathname ", int " flags ", mode_t " mode ); +.BI "int open(const char *" pathname ", int " flags ", ..." +.BI " \fR/*\fP mode_t " mode " \fR*/\fP );" .PP .BI "int creat(const char *" pathname ", mode_t " mode ); .PP -.BI "int openat(int " dirfd ", const char *" pathname ", int " flags ); -.BI "int openat(int " dirfd ", const char *" pathname ", int " flags \ -", mode_t " mode ); +.BI "int openat(int " dirfd ", const char *" pathname ", int " flags ", ..." +.BI " \fR/*\fP mode_t " mode " \fR*/\fP );" .PP /* Documented separately, in \fBopenat2\fP(2): */ .BI "int openat2(int " dirfd ", const char *" pathname , -.BI " const struct open_how *" how ", size_t " size ");" +.BI " const struct open_how *" how ", size_t " size ); .fi .PP .RS -4 diff --git a/man2/prctl.2 b/man2/prctl.2 index 88d94b7e8..09e9072fa 100644 --- a/man2/prctl.2 +++ b/man2/prctl.2 @@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ Standard C library .nf .B #include <sys/prctl.h> .PP -.BI "int prctl(int " option ", unsigned long " arg2 ", unsigned long " arg3 , -.BI " unsigned long " arg4 ", unsigned long " arg5 ); +.BI "int prctl(int " option ", ..." +.BI " \fR/*\fP unsigned long " arg2 ", unsigned long " arg3 , +.BI " unsigned long " arg4 ", unsigned long " arg5 " \fR*/\fP );" .fi .SH DESCRIPTION .BR prctl () |