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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-08-08 05:12:36 +1000
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-08-08 05:54:15 +1000
commit55e0165bf3325baad986b3694abbc7b81577b264 (patch)
tree22b24f4c0d88f4e14237bd31aac250cd0a9114fd
parent81036dab01048a828824cdf120903cfc70fd7a90 (diff)
downloadman-pages-55e0165bf3325baad986b3694abbc7b81577b264.tar.gz
get_kernel_syms.2: Fix section ordering
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man2/get_kernel_syms.216
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man2/get_kernel_syms.2 b/man2/get_kernel_syms.2
index f2d231c4af..d6a3ef4928 100644
--- a/man2/get_kernel_syms.2
+++ b/man2/get_kernel_syms.2
@@ -67,6 +67,14 @@ it was removed in Linux 2.6.
.SH CONFORMING TO
.BR get_kernel_syms ()
is Linux-specific.
+.SH NOTES
+This obsolete system call is not supported by glibc.
+No declaration is provided in glibc headers, but, through a quirk of history,
+glibc versions before 2.23 did export an ABI for this system call.
+Therefore, in order to employ this system call,
+it was sufficient to manually declare the interface in your code;
+alternatively, you could invoke the system call using
+.BR syscall (2).
.SH BUGS
There is no way to indicate the size of the buffer allocated for
.IR table .
@@ -80,14 +88,6 @@ favor of
.BR query_module (2)
(which is itself nowadays deprecated
in favor of other interfaces described on its manual page).
-.SH NOTES
-This obsolete system call is not supported by glibc.
-No declaration is provided in glibc headers, but, through a quirk of history,
-glibc versions before 2.23 did export an ABI for this system call.
-Therefore, in order to employ this system call,
-it was sufficient to manually declare the interface in your code;
-alternatively, you could invoke the system call using
-.BR syscall (2).
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR create_module (2),
.BR delete_module (2),