Hi Dirk,

At 2026-04-15T20:12:59+0200, Dirk Müller wrote:

Hi,

I noticed that man pages 6.17 release includes this in the Synopsis
section of man -l man/man2/readlink.2:

      ssize_t readlink(size_t bufsiz;
                       const char *restrict path,
                       char buf[restrict bufsiz], size_t bufsiz);

I believe this is a typo and it should be:

      ssize_t readlink(const char *restrict path,
                       char buf[restrict bufsiz], size_t bufsiz);

instead.

This is something of a FAQ on this mailing list.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/adupQhfJQ7kws17U@debian/ (local)

It's a GCC syntax extension.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Length.html

Sorry for not including a patch, but I am not sufficiently skilled at
editing man page sources :-)

Have you seen groff_man_style(7)?

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/groff_man_style.7.html

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(Unfortunately Michael hasn't updated to groff 1.24.{0,1} yet.)

Regards,
Branden