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personality.2: Note kernel and glibc versions that introduced this syscall

PATCH In review Dmitry V. Levin 2 participants 2 messages Dec 24, 2015 – Dec 26, 2015 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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PATCH 1/1 personality.2: Note kernel and glibc versions that introduced this syscall

Signed-off-by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv-u2l5PoMzF/[email protected]>
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 man2/personality.2 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
man2/personality.2 +5 -0
index d5e3364..f41a339 100644
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ is set appropriately.
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
 The kernel was unable to change the personality.
+.SH VERSIONS
+This system call first appeared in Linux 1.1.20;
+library support was added in glibc 2.3.
+.\" personality wrapper first appeared in glibc 1.90,
+.\" <sys/personality.h> was added later in 2.2.91.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 .BR personality ()
 is Linux-specific and should not be used in programs intended to
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Hi Dmitry,

Quoted 11 lines · Dmitry V. Levin
Signed-off-by Dmitry V. Levin <ldv-u2l5PoMzF/[email protected]>
---
 man2/personality.2 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
man2/personality.2 +0 -0
index d5e3364..f41a339 100644
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ is set appropriately.
 .TP

man2/personality.2 is set appropriately. · line 80

Quoted 10 lines
man2/personality.2 +5 -0
 .B EINVAL
 The kernel was unable to change the personality.
+.SH VERSIONS
+This system call first appeared in Linux 1.1.20;
+library support was added in glibc 2.3.
+.\" personality wrapper first appeared in glibc 1.90,
+.\" <sys/personality.h> was added later in 2.2.91.
 .SH CONFORMING TO
 .BR personality ()
 is Linux-specific and should not be used in programs intended to

For lack of time, I've tended not to add this kind of information for longstanding system calls. So, I'm very happy when someone else adds it :-). Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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