From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dmitry V. Levin" Subject: [PING] [PATCH v2] sigprocmask.2: do not specify an exact value of rt_sigprocmask's 4th argument Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:49:00 +0300 Message-ID: <20170315094859.GA5852@altlinux.org> References: <20170219211302.GA30235@altlinux.org> <58AAA603.6020400@bfs.de> <20170220154327.GA9511@altlinux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170220154327.GA9511-u2l5PoMzF/Vg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Michael Kerrisk Cc: walter harms , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org As sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) is not the same for all architectures, it would be better not to mention any numbers as its value. Signed-off-by: Dmitry V. Levin --- v2: mention that sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) is architecture specific. man2/sigprocmask.2 | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/sigprocmask.2 b/man2/sigprocmask.2 index 8388340..499fd0c 100644 --- a/man2/sigprocmask.2 +++ b/man2/sigprocmask.2 @@ -202,10 +202,11 @@ which specifies the size in bytes of the signal sets in .IR set and .IR oldset . -This argument is currently required to have the value 8 -( -.IR sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) -). +This argument is currently required to have a fixed architecture specific value +(equal to +.IR sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) ). +.\" sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) == _NSIG / 8, +.\" which equals to 8 on most architectures, but e.g. on MIPS it's 16. The glibc .BR sigprocmask () -- ldv -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html