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

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Message-Id: <20250919-new-mount-api-v4-8-1261201ab562@cyphar.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:59:49 +1000
From: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
Cc: "Michael T. Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>, 
 Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, 
 Askar Safin <safinaskar@...omail.com>, 
 "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@...il.com>, 
 linux-man@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, 
 Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 08/10] man/man2/mount_setattr.2: mirror opening sentence
 from fsopen(2)

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@...har.com>
---
 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