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DateThu, 23 Oct 2008 16:50:57 +0200
FromDaniel Gollub <>
Subject[patch 2/3] [man-pages] Remove "bufsize is not positive" from readlink(2) error section
The error statement "bufsize is not positive" is obsolete, if this proposed
syscall interface change get accepted.

Note: Kernel 2.6.27 and older shipped sys_readlink with a signed "bufsiz" 
argument. Man-page document the readlink syscall always as unsigend (size_t).
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gollub <dgollub@suse.de>

---
 man2/readlink.2 |    4 ----
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man2/readlink.2 b/man2/readlink.2
index b94db21..470c222 100644
--- a/man2/readlink.2
+++ b/man2/readlink.2
@@ -86,10 +86,6 @@ Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
 extends outside the process's allocated address space.
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
-.I bufsiz
-is not positive.
-.TP
-.B EINVAL
 The named file is not a symbolic link.
 .TP
 .B EIO


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