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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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@@ -3816,18 +3816,15 @@ and (since Linux 3.13) setting a kernel function-trace tracepoint.
.TP
.B ESRCH
Returned if attempting to attach to a process that does not exist.
-.SH VERSION
+.SH STANDARDS
+Linux.
+.SH HISTORY
.BR perf_event_open ()
was introduced in Linux 2.6.31 but was called
.\" commit 0793a61d4df8daeac6492dbf8d2f3e5713caae5e
.BR perf_counter_open ().
It was renamed in Linux 2.6.32.
.\" commit cdd6c482c9ff9c55475ee7392ec8f672eddb7be6
-.SH STANDARDS
-This
-.BR perf_event_open ()
-system call Linux-specific
-and should not be used in programs intended to be portable.
.SH NOTES
The official way of knowing if
.BR perf_event_open ()