[Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 2/2] [manpages] spu_create.2: context fds can be passed to *at()

Jeremy Kerr jk at ozlabs.org
Wed Dec 19 15:15:22 EST 2007


We can use context FDs for the dirfd argument to the *at() syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk at ozlabs.org>

---

 spu_create.2 |    8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: manpages/spu_create.2
===================================================================
--- manpages.orig/spu_create.2
+++ manpages/spu_create.2
@@ -56,9 +56,13 @@ and it is populated with the files descr
 
 When a context is created, the returned file descriptor can only be
 passed to
-.BR spu_run (2)
+.BR spu_run (2),
+used as the
+.I dirfd
+argument to the *at family of syscalls (eg.
+.BR openat (2))
 or closed;
-other operations are not defined on it.
+other operations are not defined.
 A logical SPU
 context is destroyed (along with all files created within the context's
 .I pathname



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