Thanks for the review. I'll follow up with a patch v2 with the adjustments.

On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM Alejandro Colomar [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi Alex,

On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 08:32:56PM -0700, Alex Tran wrote:

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See: <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219335>

Signed-off-by: Alex Tran <redacted>

Thanks!  See a comment below.

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---
 man/man3/sem_post.3 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/man3/sem_post.3 b/man/man3/sem_post.3
index 1df132c89..03b91b9a9 100644
--- a/man/man3/sem_post.3
+++ b/man/man3/sem_post.3

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ is not a valid semaphore.
 .TP
 .B EOVERFLOW
 .\" Added in POSIX.1-2008 TC1 (Austin Interpretation 213)
-The maximum allowable value for a semaphore would be exceeded.
+The value exceeded SEM_VALUE_MAX limit.

This wording is slightly incorrect: the value would be exceeded, if it
were increased, but of course, sem_post(3) will not increase it.

I suggest something like:

        The value would exceed SEM_VALUE_MAX.


Have a lovely day!
Alex

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