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authorAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100
committerAlejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200
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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>
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diff --git a/man2/msync.2 b/man2/msync.2
index e650f79888..4cd38d19a8 100644
--- a/man2/msync.2
+++ b/man2/msync.2
@@ -81,31 +81,7 @@ are set in
.TP
.B ENOMEM
The indicated memory (or part of it) was not mapped.
-.SH STANDARDS
-POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
-.PP
-This call was introduced in Linux 1.3.21, and then used
-.B EFAULT
-instead of
-.BR ENOMEM .
-In Linux 2.4.19, this was changed to the POSIX value
-.BR ENOMEM .
-.PP
-On POSIX systems on which
-.BR msync ()
-is available, both
-.B _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
-and
-.B _POSIX_SYNCHRONIZED_IO
-are defined in
-.I <unistd.h>
-to a value greater than 0.
-(See also
-.BR sysconf (3).)
-.\" 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
+.SH VERSIONS
According to POSIX, either
.B MS_SYNC
or
@@ -132,6 +108,32 @@ or
.B MS_ASYNC
in
.IR flags .
+.SH STANDARDS
+POSIX.1-2008.
+.SH HISTORY
+POSIX.1-2001.
+.PP
+This call was introduced in Linux 1.3.21, and then used
+.B EFAULT
+instead of
+.BR ENOMEM .
+In Linux 2.4.19, this was changed to the POSIX value
+.BR ENOMEM .
+.PP
+On POSIX systems on which
+.BR msync ()
+is available, both
+.B _POSIX_MAPPED_FILES
+and
+.B _POSIX_SYNCHRONIZED_IO
+are defined in
+.I <unistd.h>
+to a value greater than 0.
+(See also
+.BR sysconf (3).)
+.\" 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 SEE ALSO
.BR mmap (2)
.PP