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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/perfmonctl.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/perfmonctl.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/perfmonctl.2 | 16 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man2/perfmonctl.2 b/man2/perfmonctl.2 index 1adbba4920..d6d36a0a04 100644 --- a/man2/perfmonctl.2 +++ b/man2/perfmonctl.2 @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ perfmonctl \- interface to IA-64 performance monitoring unit .fi .PP .IR Note : -There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see NOTES. +There is no glibc wrapper for this system call; see HISTORY. .SH DESCRIPTION The IA-64-specific .BR perfmonctl () @@ -174,15 +174,13 @@ returns zero when the operation is successful. On error, \-1 is returned and .I errno is set to indicate the error. -.SH VERSIONS -.BR perfmonctl () -was added in Linux 2.4; -.\" commit ecf5b72d5f66af843f189dfe9ce31598c3e48ad7 -it was removed in Linux 5.10. .SH STANDARDS -.BR perfmonctl () -is Linux-specific and is available only on the IA-64 architecture. -.SH NOTES +Linux on IA-64. +.SH HISTORY +Added in Linux 2.4; +.\" commit ecf5b72d5f66af843f189dfe9ce31598c3e48ad7 +removed in Linux 5.10. +.PP This system call was broken for many years, and ultimately removed in Linux 5.10. .PP |