From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Martin Doucha <mdoucha@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: semctl(2): data type for SEM_STAT_ANY
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 01:56:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51ff866c-fac2-fd13-1ac4-0b9537b8a1e4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14010457-560b-5c2f-d840-782be5f0aeb8@suse.cz>
On 1/15/21 4:35 PM, Martin Doucha wrote:
> Hello,
> there's a minor error in the semctl(2) man page, the correct data type
> for SEM_STAT_ANY return buffer is "struct semid_ds" because the kernel
> code path is the same as for IPC_STAT and SEM_STAT:
>
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/5ee88057889bbca5f5bb96031b62b3756b33e164/ipc/sem.c#L1789
>
> The man page currently says that the data type for IPC_STAT and SEM_STAT
> is "struct semid_ds" (correct) but then it says the data type for
> SEM_STAT_ANY is "struct seminfo" (wrong).
>
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/semctl.2.html
>
Hello Martin,
This was fixed a few days ago.
Please, check commit 43ebbd192571b221b975c0d94bda3bcf0d633338.
Thanks,
Alex
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Alejandro Colomar
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