linux-kernel - [PATCH] man/man2/statmount.2: document flags argument

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Message-ID: <20251218230517.244704-1-hi@alyssa.is>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:05:17 +0100
From: Alyssa Ross <hi@...ssa.is>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] man/man2/statmount.2: document flags argument

Reading the man page for the first time, I assumed the lack of
mentioned flags meant that there weren't any, but I had to check the
kernel source to be sure.  Sure enough:

	if (flags)
		return -EINVAL;

Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@...ssa.is>
---
 man/man2/statmount.2 | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man/man2/statmount.2 b/man/man2/statmount.2
index 8a83d5e34..cdc96da92 100644
--- a/man/man2/statmount.2
+++ b/man/man2/statmount.2
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ The returned buffer is a
 which is of size
 .I bufsize
 with the fields filled in as described below.
+.I flags
+must be 0.
 .P
 (Note that reserved space and padding is omitted.)
 .SS The mnt_id_req structure

base-commit: a5342ef55f0a96790bf279a98c9d2a30b19fc9eb
-- 
2.51.0