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Re: glibc and linux-man disagrees about pkey_alloc

From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>
To: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>
Cc: mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com, nd at arm dot com, linux-man at vger dot kernel dot org, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 14:19:10 +0300
Subject: Re: glibc and linux-man disagrees about pkey_alloc
References: <adae131e-c782-9508-808f-9cbea92ef694@arm.com>

On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:10:40PM +0100, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> glibc sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/mman-shared.h:
> 
> int pkey_alloc (unsigned int __flags, unsigned int __access_rights) __THROW;
> 
> linux-man http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/pkey_alloc.2.html :
> 
> int pkey_alloc(unsigned long flags, unsigned long access_rights);
> 
> i assume the documentation should be fixed (as the glibc
> code is already in use)

Note that pkey_alloc syscall takes arguments of type "unsigned long"
and explicitly tests them for unsupported bits.


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