Module Name: src
Committed By: skrll
Date: Wed Jul 24 11:42:51 UTC 2013
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/sys: msgrcv.2 msgsnd.2
Log Message:
Clarify msgsz.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.20 -r1.21 src/lib/libc/sys/msgrcv.2
cvs rdiff -u -r1.18 -r1.19 src/lib/libc/sys/msgsnd.2
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/lib/libc/sys/msgrcv.2
diff -u src/lib/libc/sys/msgrcv.2:1.20 src/lib/libc/sys/msgrcv.2:1.21
--- src/lib/libc/sys/msgrcv.2:1.20 Tue May 15 11:37:01 2012
+++ src/lib/libc/sys/msgrcv.2 Wed Jul 24 11:42:50 2013
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: msgrcv.2,v 1.20 2012/05/15 11:37:01 reinoud Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: msgrcv.2,v 1.21 2013/07/24 11:42:50 skrll Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Frank van der Linden
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -90,8 +90,10 @@ less than or equal to the absolute value
will be received.
.El
.Pp
+The argument
.Fa msgsz
-specifies the maximum length of the requested message.
+specifies the size in bytes of
+.Va mtext .
If the received message has a length greater than
.Fa msgsz
it will be silently truncated if the
Index: src/lib/libc/sys/msgsnd.2
diff -u src/lib/libc/sys/msgsnd.2:1.18 src/lib/libc/sys/msgsnd.2:1.19
--- src/lib/libc/sys/msgsnd.2:1.18 Fri Apr 30 04:06:20 2010
+++ src/lib/libc/sys/msgsnd.2 Wed Jul 24 11:42:50 2013
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: msgsnd.2,v 1.18 2010/04/30 04:06:20 jruoho Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: msgsnd.2,v 1.19 2013/07/24 11:42:50 skrll Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Frank van der Linden
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ be used for selecting messages (see
.Xr msgrcv 2 ) .
The
.Va mtext
-field is an array of bytes, with size up to the system limit
+field is an array of bytes of length
+.Fa msgsz ,
+with size up to the system limit
.Dv MSGMAX .
.Pp
If the number of bytes already on the message queue plus
