From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.6 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7E6C433E6 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924FE64EF3 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:53:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230049AbhBZLxk (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2021 06:53:40 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:46290 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229996AbhBZLxd (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Feb 2021 06:53:33 -0500 Received: from mail-wm1-x32e.google.com (mail-wm1-x32e.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::32e]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 61C7EC061786; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 03:52:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wm1-x32e.google.com with SMTP id w7so7201213wmb.5; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 03:52:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:from:to:cc:references:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=NuBVfX255qpiXY+NtMUSxqbUxAFE9mom/YBJSTCC9hE=; b=LnpJP5aU2oEr0vdBo6tihdbXydtoCRpxVK0C4gAai13hHeEw7kfL7oqvttIX+vFzSM Gi/kCW32/uCVf+s2oNWXrceBs997dRjIxfZBGrVpuOAPh6/UvaIRDXStv5435hYS2Y8o dRbZ0+6OBsFtnUTKfjPZzANAnzS3yMiKKWqIHKPS12+UEbp8i7+Wi7DAilYnVKuza4eb O/GFzl3vk/Fqnd2aKCiOBCE6IiOn8dxOq2Ax4vfej/XLSuQaFwGbWcZBUEI6fvF3A//v fM8jyGFLWrHnp9PjwjomqRobXsj2yGK88lzAFv4XiqiSiQnlcwBavxDItQ0EqU+8qlZt K6hQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:from:to:cc:references:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=NuBVfX255qpiXY+NtMUSxqbUxAFE9mom/YBJSTCC9hE=; b=sHpb4aF1YcEcWyq8Xsnn4+N7L/lJ+vJrellWlBoTa693Ct2TJLppEa38FSdfYCvcwD iiph7lzT05ndvi7zj6Qss2ADbVg731s4+Mk5pd2PJ637t/MBBBM60PH+aJUhh2R7EmR3 nVMXtto7St/Naio1qolsYz6tgxtiHiNj10miG9k69k5U0oSj6GElIKC3O3RUZBt2Fbhi X2MXt1zP0hiEITbHexD85ZQ7fGFOQmDn/IRddCDMR57H/9Mt50cxHRxl/Inw7SjUdlID jjsk7qgcQgheXgTwcXAyjsKBTGKdJfOiD3kQxCiIZOO7l+WLOhYar5b9LbH4vRgvQbUQ CgQA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533f4mTpdV9JTNPythy4CYzJi/Q1M0PVNcTVwJMKzegOJEBPS1RX Wwwnlko+xla1YPjy+X1GdTqKabbs1jVgRw== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJx8qHuzpGfQk0t2uqF8fDSJvNKOspYW5KLD0cfOCnzoSUDJE6HJ2UKPQwH+eex/WeIUry5+sQ== X-Received: by 2002:a05:600c:2291:: with SMTP id 17mr2568678wmf.169.1614340372239; Fri, 26 Feb 2021 03:52:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.143] ([170.253.51.130]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s2sm13214774wrt.33.2021.02.26.03.52.51 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 26 Feb 2021 03:52:51 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [RFC v2] execve.2: SYNOPSIS: Document both glibc wrapper and kernel sycalls From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, Florian Weimer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <938df2c0-04b5-f6a4-79c3-b8fe09973828@gmail.com> <20210218151341.51095-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com> Message-ID: <50102170-ead4-fa2e-2855-26f06543f95d@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 12:52:50 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Michael, Okay, after a few days of thinking, I'm not sure about what to do in some cases. But I think we agree to use syscall(SYS_ ...) for syscalls with no wrapper (such as membarrier(2)). Is that right? I think it may be better to separate this into 2 sets of changes. 1) Document syscalls without wrappers as syscall(SYS_ ...). We could already start with this. (Actually, after I finish fixing the prototypes in man3.) This change will be fast, because there aren't many of these. 2) Do the rest, I don't know yet how. We'll see. Thanks, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/