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

[Aleksa Sarai]

On 2025-09-21, Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 <cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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/)

Ah, you forgot to switch to "file-descriptor-based" like you suggested
in patch 1. ;)

> 
> Cheers,
> Alex
> 
> > ---
> >  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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Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
https://www.cyphar.com/

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