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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2012-04-22 07:09:18 +1200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2012-04-22 07:09:18 +1200 |
| commit | a146d9cccd53ed73bb48e485ff430e12b3fde225 (patch) | |
| tree | 937b81290e4b3b2e1202a457ec5ccefba6f1809b | |
| parent | 0364dd73e40a729f350c51ffd7fc2ed27bf48ac8 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-a146d9cccd53ed73bb48e485ff430e12b3fde225.tar.gz | |
fchmodat.2: Improve discussion of difference between wrapper and underlying syscall
Reported-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/fchmodat.2 | 10 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man2/fchmodat.2 b/man2/fchmodat.2 index ff3bc1a107..2086bf461f 100644 --- a/man2/fchmodat.2 +++ b/man2/fchmodat.2 @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" .\" -.TH FCHMODAT 2 2012-04-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH FCHMODAT 2 2012-04-22 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME fchmodat \- change permissions of a file relative to a directory \ file descriptor @@ -143,11 +143,9 @@ See for an explanation of the need for .BR fchmodat (). -This page documents the interface provided by the -glibc wrapper function for the -.BR fchmodat () -system call. -The underlying system call does +The GNU C library wrapper function implements the POSIX-specified +interface described in this page. +This interface differs from the underlying Linux system call, which does .I not have a .I flags |