Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756283AbYJWPGY (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:06:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752777AbYJWPFw (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:05:52 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:33907 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752277AbYJWPFu (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:05:50 -0400 Message-Id: <20081023150549.038994457@marvin.suse.de> User-Agent: quilt/0.47-12 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:50:57 +0200 From: Daniel Gollub To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [patch 2/3] [man-pages] Remove "bufsize is not positive" from readlink(2) error section References: <20081023145054.998439866@marvin.suse.de> Content-Disposition: inline; filename=man-pages-readlink-2.diff Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1023 Lines: 34 The error statement "bufsize is not positive" is obsolete, if this proposed syscall interface change get accepted. Note: Kernel 2.6.27 and older shipped sys_readlink with a signed "bufsiz" argument. Man-page document the readlink syscall always as unsigend (size_t). Signed-off-by: Daniel Gollub --- man2/readlink.2 | 4 ---- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man2/readlink.2 b/man2/readlink.2 index b94db21..470c222 100644 --- a/man2/readlink.2 +++ b/man2/readlink.2 @@ -86,10 +86,6 @@ Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. extends outside the process's allocated address space. .TP .B EINVAL -.I bufsiz -is not positive. -.TP -.B EINVAL The named file is not a symbolic link. .TP .B EIO -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/