[PATCH 02/39] getdents.2: Use syscall(SYS_...); for system calls without a wrapper

[Alejandro Colomar]

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
---
 man2/getdents.2 | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/getdents.2 b/man2/getdents.2
index ec00a73ba..df766b066 100644
--- a/man2/getdents.2
+++ b/man2/getdents.2
@@ -33,19 +33,29 @@
 getdents, getdents64 \- get directory entries
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .nf
-.BI "long getdents(unsigned int " fd ", struct linux_dirent *" dirp ,
+.BR "#include <sys/syscall.h>" "      /* Definition of " SYS_* " constants */"
+.B #include <unistd.h>
+.PP
+.BI "long syscall(SYS_getdents, unsigned int " fd \
+", struct linux_dirent *" dirp ,
 .BI "             unsigned int " count );
 .PP
-.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" "        /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"
+.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" "           /* See feature_test_macros(7) */"
 .BR "#include <dirent.h>"
 .PP
 .BI "ssize_t getdents64(int " fd ", void *" dirp ", size_t " count );
 .fi
 .PP
 .IR Note :
-There is no glibc wrapper for
-.BR getdents ();
-see NOTES.
+glibc provides no wrapper for
+.BR getdents (),
+necessitating the use of
+.BR syscall (2).
+.PP
+.IR Note :
+There is no definition of
+.B struct linux_dirent
+in glibc; see NOTES.
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 These are not the interfaces you are interested in.
 Look at
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