Thread (43 messages) 43 messages, 4 authors, 2025-10-02

Re: [PATCH v4 08/10] man/man2/mount_setattr.2: mirror opening sentence from fsopen(2)

From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-09-21 09:50:45
Also in: linux-api, linux-fsdevel, lkml

Hi Aleksa,

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 11:59:49AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
All of the other new mount API docs have this lead-in sentence in order
to make this set of APIs feel a little bit more cohesive.  Despite being
a bit of a latecomer, mount_setattr(2) is definitely part of this family
of APIs and so deserves the same treatment.

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <redacted>
Thanks!  I've applied this patch.
<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?h=contrib&id=7022531182883ed1db5d4c926506cd373e0795ee>
(Use port :80/)


Cheers,
Alex
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---
 man/man2/mount_setattr.2 | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/man/man2/mount_setattr.2 b/man/man2/mount_setattr.2
index 4b55f6d2e09d00d9bc4b3a085f310b1b459f34e8..b27db5b96665cfb0c387bf5b60776d45e0139956 100644
--- a/man/man2/mount_setattr.2
+++ b/man/man2/mount_setattr.2
@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ .SH SYNOPSIS
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 The
 .BR mount_setattr ()
-system call changes the mount properties of a mount or an entire mount tree.
+system call is part of
+the suite of file descriptor based mount facilities in Linux.
+.P
+.BR mount_setattr ()
+changes the mount properties of a mount or an entire mount tree.
 If
 .I path
 is relative,
-- 
2.51.0
-- 
<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es>
Use port 80 (that is, <...:80/>).

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