On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 11:44:14AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Upstream maintainer here. The keyutils pages in Section 2 > are an unusual case. The wrapper functions are provided in > the libkeyutils library (instead of, as is conventional, > the C library), as noted in the add_key(2) page. > The package that provides that library also provides > the <keyutils.h> header file. The manual page implies > that, but doesn't make it completely clear. I've added > a sentence to the manual page to make this more explicit: > > Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call. A wrapper > is provided in the libkeyutils library. **(The accompanying package > provides the <keyutils.h> header file.)** When employing the wrap‐ > per in that library, link with -lkeyutils. > > Of course, the name of the relevant package depends on the distro. > For Debian, I believe it is "libkeyutils-dev". (I run Fedora, > where the package is the somewhat unconventionally named > "keyutils-libs-devel".)
Confirmed to be present in man-pages-5.13, and IMO sufficiently explained, hence this bug could be closed accordingly once that version gets packaged. Cheers, Flo
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