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

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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2025 11:50:37 +0200
From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
To: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/10] man/man2/mount_setattr.2: mirror opening
 sentence from fsopen(2)

Hi Aleksa,

On Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 11:59:49AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> 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>

Thanks!  I've applied this patch.
<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?h=contrib&id=7022531182883ed1db5d4c926506cd373e0795ee>
(Use port :80/)


Cheers,
Alex

> ---
>  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
> 

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