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New: epoll_create(0) fails. Mismatch between implementation and manpage

Bug 23872 bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/[email protected] 1 participant 2 messages Nov 28, 2010 – Dec 3, 2010 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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Summary: epoll_create(0) fails. Mismatch between implementation
and manpage
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Kernel Version: 2.6.36
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
AssignedTo: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/[email protected]
ReportedBy: kernelbugs-pbvhy9/[email protected]
Regression: No

The epoll_create manpage (current version as of 2010-11-28) contains:

SYNOPSIS
...

    int epoll_create(int size);

...
DESCRIPTION
...
(Nowadays, size is ignored; see NOTES below.)
...
ERRORS
EINVAL size is not positive.
...
NOTES
Since Linux 2.6.8, the size argument is unused. ...

on the other hand, fs/eventpoll.c contains:
SYSCALL_DEFINE1(epoll_create, int, size)

{
        if (size <= 0)
                return -EINVAL;

        return sys_epoll_create1(0);
}

The size parameter is not ignored as stated in the manpage. Please correct the manpage or remove the check inside the implementation.

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[Bug 23872] epoll_create(0) fails. Mismatch between implementation and manpage

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23872

Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> changed:

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