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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/splice.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/splice.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/splice.2 | 30 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/man2/splice.2 b/man2/splice.2 index 38d8f703b1..dd78e8cd4c 100644 --- a/man2/splice.2 +++ b/man2/splice.2 @@ -176,13 +176,21 @@ Either or .I off_out was not NULL, but the corresponding file descriptor refers to a pipe. -.SH VERSIONS -The -.BR splice () -system call first appeared in Linux 2.6.17; -library support was added in glibc 2.5. .SH STANDARDS -This system call is Linux-specific. +Linux. +.SH HISTORY +Linux 2.6.17, +glibc 2.5. +.PP +In Linux 2.6.30 and earlier, +exactly one of +.I fd_in +and +.I fd_out +was required to be a pipe. +Since Linux 2.6.31, +.\" commit 7c77f0b3f9208c339a4b40737bb2cb0f0319bb8d +both arguments may refer to pipes. .SH NOTES The three system calls .BR splice (), @@ -234,16 +242,6 @@ only pointers are copied, not the pages of the buffer. .\" the data and choose to forward it to two or more different .\" users - for things like logging etc.). .\" -.PP -In Linux 2.6.30 and earlier, -exactly one of -.I fd_in -and -.I fd_out -was required to be a pipe. -Since Linux 2.6.31, -.\" commit 7c77f0b3f9208c339a4b40737bb2cb0f0319bb8d -both arguments may refer to pipes. .SH EXAMPLES See .BR tee (2). |