linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 22/24] membarrier.2: Note that glibc does not provide a wrapper

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Date:   Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:33:21 +0200
From:   Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@...il.com>
To:     "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
        mtk.manpages@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/24] membarrier.2: Note that glibc does not provide a
 wrapper



On 2020-09-28 14:52, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
 > At 2020-09-27T22:05:14+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
 >> Hi Branden,
 >>
 >> * G. Branden Robinson via linux-man:
 >>
 >> 1)
 >>
 >>> .EX
 >>> .B int fstat(int \c
 >>> .IB fd , \~\c
 >>> .B struct stat *\c
 >>> .IB statbuf );
 >>> .EE
 >>
 >> 2)
 >>
 >>> .EX
 >>> .BI "int fstat(int " fd ", struct stat *" statbuf );
 >>> .EE
 >>
 >> 3)
 >>
 >>> .EX
 >>> .BI "int fstat(int\~" fd ", struct stat *" statbuf );
 >>> .EE
 >>
 >> I'd say number 2 is best.  Rationale: grep :)
 >> I agree it's visually somewhat harder, but grepping is way easier.
 >
 > I don't see how (2) is any tougher to grep than (3)...?
 >
 > If I'm grepping, I'm usually concerned with things like
 > variable/function names and not with punctuation, so if I were grepping
 > for the above function signature I'd probably write:
 >
 > $ grep 'fstat.*fd.*statbuf' man2/*
 >
 > ...which would catch either of the above just fine.
 >
 > Am I missing something?
 >
 > Regards,
 > Branden
 >

There are a few cases:  if I want to find declarations of type int,
I'd start with:

$ grep -rn "int\s"

or something like that.  "int\~" would break the ability to do that.

Regards,
Alex