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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/sync_file_range.2 | |
| parent | fd00f831b52d61a91d59cb3b46182869145d9700 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-4131356cdab8d37fc395ca5466a0401c8573380c.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/sync_file_range.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/sync_file_range.2 | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man2/sync_file_range.2 b/man2/sync_file_range.2 index 7557cad448..d633b08ffe 100644 --- a/man2/sync_file_range.2 +++ b/man2/sync_file_range.2 @@ -155,12 +155,6 @@ Out of disk space. refers to something other than a regular file, a block device, or a directory. .SH VERSIONS -.BR sync_file_range () -appeared in Linux 2.6.17. -.SH STANDARDS -This system call is Linux-specific, and should be avoided -in portable programs. -.SH NOTES .SS sync_file_range2() Some architectures (e.g., PowerPC, ARM) need 64-bit arguments to be aligned in a suitable pair of registers. @@ -188,7 +182,11 @@ system call that orders the arguments suitably: .PP The behavior of this system call is otherwise exactly the same as .BR sync_file_range (). -.PP +.SH STANDARDS +Linux. +.SH HISTORY +Linux 2.6.17. +.SS sync_file_range2() A system call with this signature first appeared on the ARM architecture in Linux 2.6.20, with the name .BR arm_sync_file_range (). @@ -199,6 +197,7 @@ glibc transparently wraps .BR sync_file_range2 () under the name .BR sync_file_range (). +.SH NOTES .SH SEE ALSO .BR fdatasync (2), .BR fsync (2), |