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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200 |
| commit | 4131356cdab8d37fc395ca5466a0401c8573380c (patch) | |
| tree | 8c4c6f1c3172358b735b481cbbfdd9cc04b00ed9 /man2/fsync.2 | |
| parent | fd00f831b52d61a91d59cb3b46182869145d9700 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-4131356cdab8.tar.gz | |
man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS, STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections
- Add a new HISTORY section that covers the history of an API, both
regarding implementations and regarding old standards. This was
previously covered in VERSIONS, and in some cases in STANDARDS.
- Repurpose VERSIONS to cover differing implementations in _current_
systems.
- STANDARDS is reduced to only cover current versions of standards.
That basically means only C11 (C99 has been superseeded by C11; C17
is just a bugfix of C11, so not really a new version), and
POSIX.1-2008 (*-2001 was superseeded by *-2008; *-2017 was just a
bugfix for *-2008). The section also mentions for example 'Linux',
'GNU' or 'BSD' when a non-standard API is Linux- or GNU-only or if
it's (de-facto) standard in the BSDs.
- In some cases content that should go into one of these sections was
in NOTES. Move it from there to where it corresponds.
- In the SYNOPSIS, I added [[deprecated]] in some functions that I
found are deprecated by the relevant standards.
- A few other related changes...
Cc: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2/fsync.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/fsync.2 | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man2/fsync.2 b/man2/fsync.2 index 9dc99a15a2..1043e6a1ba 100644 --- a/man2/fsync.2 +++ b/man2/fsync.2 @@ -142,9 +142,7 @@ space at the time of a .BR write (2) system call, and some previous write failed due to insufficient storage space. -.SH STANDARDS -POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD. -.PP +.SH VERSIONS On POSIX systems on which .BR fdatasync () is available, @@ -157,12 +155,16 @@ to a value greater than 0. .\" POSIX.1-2001: It shall be defined to -1 or 0 or 200112L. .\" -1: unavailable, 0: ask using sysconf(). .\" glibc defines them to 1. -.SH NOTES +.PP On some UNIX systems (but not Linux), .I fd must be a .I writable file descriptor. +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD. .PP In Linux 2.2 and earlier, .BR fdatasync () |