man 2 sigprocmask

2012-10-06 Thread David Higgs
It seems the sigprocmask syscall takes different arguments than the libc stub for sigprocmask(2). Though the differences are easily understood by browsing source, there don't appear to be any man pages describing the syscall interface, and wonder if this is an intentional or accidental oversight.

Re: man 2 sigprocmask

2012-10-06 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 4:06 PM, David Higgs hig...@gmail.com wrote: It seems the sigprocmask syscall takes different arguments than the libc stub for sigprocmask(2). Though the differences are easily understood by browsing source, there don't appear to be any man pages describing the syscall

Re: man 2 sigprocmask

2012-10-06 Thread David Higgs
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Philip Guenther guent...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 4:06 PM, David Higgs hig...@gmail.com wrote: It seems the sigprocmask syscall takes different arguments than the libc stub for sigprocmask(2). Though the differences are easily understood by

Re: man 2 sigprocmask

2012-10-06 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 8:25 PM, David Higgs hig...@gmail.com wrote: To reiterate for personal clarity, section 2 manpages for syscalls actually refers to the corresponding libc interfaces? That makes sense in that no userland code would be using syscalls directly due to complications like