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| author | Askar Safin <safinaskar@zohomail.com> | 2024-02-12 19:48:55 +0300 |
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| committer | Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> | 2024-02-14 12:21:03 -0300 |
| commit | dbae3a3940940977b8b8190a145a444732846219 (patch) | |
| tree | 0dbaeb8d950bb15db55f1e1ca6d819009d6311a9 /manual | |
| parent | 545480506fc6576ea37a14e56c654935c691709d (diff) | |
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trivial doc fix: remove weird phrase "syscall takes zero to five arguments"
"number of arguments, from zero to five" is wrong, because on Linux maximal number
of arguments is 6, not 5. Also, maximal number of arguments is kernel-dependent,
so let's not include it here at all.
Moreover, "Each kind of system call has a definite number of arguments" is questionable.
Think about SYS_open on Linux, which takes 2 or 3 arguments. Or SYS_clone on Linux x86_64, which
takes 2 to 5 arguments. So I propose to fully remove this sentence.
Signed-off-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@zohomail.com>
Reviewed-by: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'manual')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/startup.texi | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/manual/startup.texi b/manual/startup.texi index 9bf2412..96a7a47 100644 --- a/manual/startup.texi +++ b/manual/startup.texi @@ -727,8 +727,7 @@ identified by a number. Macros for all the possible system call numbers are defined in @file{sys/syscall.h} The remaining arguments are the arguments for the system call, in -order, and their meanings depend on the kind of system call. Each kind -of system call has a definite number of arguments, from zero to five. +order, and their meanings depend on the kind of system call. If you code more arguments than the system call takes, the extra ones to the right are ignored. |