tags 514771 fixed-upstream
thanks

Hello Sami,

Thanks for your report.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Sami Liedes <slie...@cc.hut.fi> wrote:
> Package: manpages-dev
> Version: 3.17-1
> Severity: minor
>
> putpmsg(2) man page is the unimplemented syscall manpage:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> $ ls -l /usr/share/man/man2/putpmsg.2.gz
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2009-01-26 22:03 /usr/share/man/man2/putpmsg.2.gz 
> -> unimplemented.2.gz
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> However, it is not listed as unimplemented in syscalls(2), which lists
> other syscalls as unimplemented:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>       pread64(2)                                Added as "pread" in 2.2;
>                                                 renamed "pread64" in 2.6
>       prof(2)                                   Not implemented
>       profil(2)                                 Not implemented
>       pselect6(2)                 2.6.16
>       ptrace(2)
>       putpmsg(2)
>       pwrite64(2)                               Added as "pwrite" in 2.2;
>                                                 renamed "pwrite64" in 2.6
>       query_module(2)             2.2
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
> putpmsg(2) should probably be listed as "Not implemented" in
> syscalls(2).

Agreed, and the same remark applies for getpmsg(2).  I've updated
syscalls(2) to note that these system calls are both unimplemented.
The update will be in upstream man-pages-3.19.

Thanks,

Michael

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