Re: [RFC] execve.2: SYNOPSIS: Document both glibc wrapper and kernel sycalls

2021-02-18 Thread Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
Hi Micahel, On 2/18/21 1:27 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: Hi Alex, On 2/14/21 2:39 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: Until now, the manual pages have (usually) documented only either the glibc (or another library) wrapper for a syscall, or the raw syscall (this only when there's not a wrap

Re: [RFC] execve.2: SYNOPSIS: Document both glibc wrapper and kernel sycalls

2021-02-18 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hi Alex, On 2/14/21 2:39 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Until now, the manual pages have (usually) documented only either > the glibc (or another library) wrapper for a syscall, or the raw > syscall (this only when there's not a wrapper). > > Let's document both prototypes, which many times are s

[RFC] execve.2: SYNOPSIS: Document both glibc wrapper and kernel sycalls

2021-02-14 Thread Alejandro Colomar
Until now, the manual pages have (usually) documented only either the glibc (or another library) wrapper for a syscall, or the raw syscall (this only when there's not a wrapper). Let's document both prototypes, which many times are slightly different. This will solve a problem where documenting g