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Bug 43252 bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/[email protected] 1 participant 4 messages May 16, 2012 – Aug 16, 2012 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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Summary: bdflush(2) is obsolete
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
AssignedTo: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/[email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Regression: No

In recent kernel, bdflush(2) syscall is deprecated and not effective to anything.

Adding some statement about this situation to DESCRIPTION or NOTES section will be helpful for readers.

I think affected pages are: bdflush(2) and syscalls(2)

Best Regards,

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[Bug 43252] bdflush(2) is obsolete

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Kazuo Moriwaka <[email protected]> changed:

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[Bug 43252] bdflush(2) is obsolete

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Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> 2012-08-16 06:22:48 --- The bdflush(2) man page has long carried this text:

Note: Since Linux 2.6, this system call is deprecated and does nothing. It is likely to disappear altogether in a future ker‐ nel release. Nowadays, the task performed by bdflush() is han‐ dled by the kernel pdflush thread.

As far as I can see, the system call still exists, at least for x86-32.

If something further has changed (which exact recent kernel version, and, ideally a commit ID), please add this info to this bug.

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[Bug 43252] bdflush(2) is obsolete

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Kazuo Moriwaka <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Kazuo Moriwaka <[email protected]> 2012-08-16 07:39:52 --- I'm sorry for I missed the note. I close this bug.
Thanks,

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