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Bug#2290: sysinfo(2) manpage patch



package: manpages
version: 1.9-2

After H.J. Lu has agreed to include my sysinfo patch (Bug#1607),
the manpage should be updated too. The sysinfo system call will be available
with the next release of the libc5 and aout-libc4 packages.

--- /usr/man/man2/sysinfo.2	Wed Jan  3 19:55:42 1996
+++ /home/bsb/debian/libc/sysinfo.2	Sun Feb  4 19:57:42 1996
@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@
 .\"  changed this file.  Thanks.   -DM
 .\"
 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 12:35:12 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
+.\" Modified Sun Feb  4 19:24:22 MET 1996 by Siggy Brentrup (bsb@uni-muenster.de)
 .\"
-.TH SYSINFO 2 "24 July 1993" "Linux 0.99.10" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SYSINFO 2 "4 Feb 1996" "Linux 1.3.5x" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 sysinfo \- returns information on overall system statistics
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-As of Linux 0.99.10 and image release 4.4
-.B #include <linux/kernel.h>
-.br
-.B #include <linux/sys.h>
+As of Linux 0.99.10 and libc release 5.2
+.sp
+.B #include <sys/sysinfo.h>
 .sp
 .BI "int sysinfo(struct sysinfo *" info );
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -55,4 +55,5 @@
 This function is Linux-specific.
 .SH BUGS
 The Linux DLL 4.4.1 libraries do not contain a proper prototype for this
-function.
+function. As of libc 4.6.27 (a.out) and libc 5.2.18 (ELF) they do not even
+contain this function, although the patch should work with older libraries too.

Thanks
  Siggy

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