[PATCH] cacheflush.2: Update SYNOPSIS for glibc wrapper

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hi Alex,

On 1/16/21 3:56 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Glibc uses 'void *' instead of 'char *'.
> And the prototype is declared in <sys/cacheflush.h>.
> 
> ......
> 
> $ syscall='cacheflush';
> $ ret='int';
> $ find glibc/ -type f -name '*.h' \
>   |xargs pcregrep -Mn "(?s)^[\w\s]*${ret}\s*${syscall}\s*\(.*?;";
> glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nios2/sys/cachectl.h:27:
> extern int cacheflush (void *__addr, const int __nbytes, const int __op) __THROW;
> glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/sys/cachectl.h:35:
> extern int cacheflush (void *__addr, const int __nbytes, const int __op) __THROW;
> glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arc/sys/cachectl.h:30:
> extern int cacheflush (void *__addr, int __nbytes, int __op) __THROW;
> glibc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/csky/sys/cachectl.h:30:
> extern int cacheflush (void *__addr, const int __nbytes,
> 		       const int __op) __THROW;
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages at gmail.com>

Thanks. Patch applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> ---
>  man2/cacheflush.2 | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man2/cacheflush.2 b/man2/cacheflush.2
> index 2cf624f3a..0496879ca 100644
> --- a/man2/cacheflush.2
> +++ b/man2/cacheflush.2
> @@ -27,9 +27,9 @@
>  cacheflush \- flush contents of instruction and/or data cache
>  .SH SYNOPSIS
>  .nf
> -.B #include <asm/cachectl.h>
> +.B #inlcude <sys/cacheflush.h>
>  .PP
> -.BI "int cacheflush(char *" addr ", int "nbytes ", int "cache );
> +.BI "int cacheflush(void *" addr ", int "nbytes ", int "cache );
>  .fi
>  .PP
>  .IR Note :
> 


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