On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 12:53:26PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello Darrick, > > On 12/15/2015 09:33 AM, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just out of curiosity, how does one submit manpages for specific > > ioctls? There's a manpage for ioctl() itself, but I can't find > > anything for things like, say, FIEMAP or FICLONE or FICLONERANGE. > > I guess they'd be section 2, right? > > Yes. (And it sure would be nice to see some of those documented. > Is this an offer? :-) )
Yep. Given that we're hoisting clone, clone-range, and (hopefully) dedupe into the VFS, it seems like a good time to document how they work. > > Something like /usr/share/man/man2/ficlone.2.gz? Or a separate > > ioctl-ficlone.2.gz, just in case there's ever a ficlone syscall? > > We already have ioctl_fat.2 and ioctl_list.2, so I'd say > ioctl_ficlone.2 and so on. Aha, out of date manpages git repo. :( So there are ioctl manpages after all! Ok, horrifying troff spaghetti will follow soon. --D > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > > -- > Michael Kerrisk > Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ > Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
