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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-09-09 14:15:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-09-09 14:15:08 +0200 |
| commit | 96e72ec1fbadd13cbcbc2b263540e4f5e9e09d7c (patch) | |
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Revert "src.mk, All pages: Move man* to man/"
This reverts commit 70ac1c4785fc1e158ab2349a962dba2526bf4fbc.
Link: <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/YxcV4h+Xn7cd6+q2@pevik/T/>
Reported-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Cc: Stefan Puiu <stefan.puiu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man/man3/makedev.3 b/man/man3/makedev.3 deleted file mode 100644 index be1fc12bf1..0000000000 --- a/man/man3/makedev.3 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,97 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 2008 Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk -.\" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> -.\" -.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft -.\" -.TH MAKEDEV 3 2021-03-22 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" -.SH NAME -makedev, major, minor \- manage a device number -.SH LIBRARY -Standard C library -.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -.B #include <sys/sysmacros.h> -.PP -.BI "dev_t makedev(unsigned int " maj ", unsigned int " min ); -.PP -.BI "unsigned int major(dev_t " dev ); -.BI "unsigned int minor(dev_t " dev ); -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -A device ID consists of two parts: -a major ID, identifying the class of the device, -and a minor ID, identifying a specific instance of a device in that class. -A device ID is represented using the type -.IR dev_t . -.PP -Given major and minor device IDs, -.BR makedev () -combines these to produce a device ID, returned as the function result. -This device ID can be given to -.BR mknod (2), -for example. -.PP -The -.BR major () -and -.BR minor () -functions perform the converse task: given a device ID, -they return, respectively, the major and minor components. -These macros can be useful to, for example, -decompose the device IDs in the structure returned by -.BR stat (2). -.SH ATTRIBUTES -For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see -.BR attributes (7). -.ad l -.nh -.TS -allbox; -lbx lb lb -l l l. -Interface Attribute Value -T{ -.BR makedev (), -.BR major (), -.BR minor () -T} Thread safety MT-Safe -.TE -.hy -.ad -.sp 1 -.SH STANDARDS -The -.BR makedev (), -.BR major (), -and -.BR minor () -functions are not specified in POSIX.1, -but are present on many other systems. -.\" The BSDs, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Irix. -.\" The header location is inconsistent: -.\" Could be sys/mkdev.h, sys/sysmacros.h, or sys/types.h. -.SH NOTES -These interfaces are defined as macros. -Since glibc 2.3.3, -they have been aliases for three GNU-specific functions: -.BR gnu_dev_makedev (), -.BR gnu_dev_major (), -and -.BR gnu_dev_minor (). -The latter names are exported, but the traditional names are more portable. -.PP -The BSDs expose the definitions for these macros via -.IR <sys/types.h> . -Depending on the version, -glibc also exposes definitions for these macros from that -header file if suitable feature test macros are defined. -However, this behavior was deprecated in glibc 2.25, -.\" glibc commit dbab6577c6684c62bd2521c1c29dc25c3cac966f -and since glibc 2.28, -.\" glibc commit e16deca62e16f645213dffd4ecd1153c37765f17 -.I <sys/types.h> -no longer provides these definitions. -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR mknod (2), -.BR stat (2) |