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Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:06:20 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/1] man-pages: seccomp.2: document syscall

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> Combines documentation from prctl, and in-kernel seccomp_filter.txt,
> along with new details specific to the new syscall.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> ---
>  man2/seccomp.2 |  333 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 333 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 man2/seccomp.2
>
> diff --git a/man2/seccomp.2 b/man2/seccomp.2
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..de7fbf7
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/man2/seccomp.2
> @@ -0,0 +1,333 @@
> +.\" Copyright (C) 2014 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
> +.\" and Copyright (C) 2012 Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>
> +.\" and Copyright (C) 2008 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
> +.\"
> +.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
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> +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from
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> +.\" professionally.
> +.\"
> +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
> +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
> +.\" %%%LICENSE_END
> +.\"
> +.TH SECCOMP 2 2014-06-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
> +.SH NAME
> +seccomp \-
> +operate on Secure Computing state of the process
> +.SH SYNOPSIS
> +.nf
> +.B #include <linux/seccomp.h>
> +.B #include <linux/filter.h>
> +.B #include <linux/audit.h>
> +.B #include <linux/signal.h>
> +.B #include <sys/ptrace.h>
> +
> +.BI "int seccomp(unsigned int " operation ", unsigned int " flags ,
> +.BI "            unsigned char *" args );

At the very least, shouldn't this be void *args?

--Andy
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