docs/149182: Small error in linux(4) man page.

Fernando fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com
Sun Aug 1 18:40:04 UTC 2010


>Number:         149182
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Small error in linux(4) man page.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Aug 01 18:40:03 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Fernando
>Release:        8.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
Open Sistemas
>Environment:
FreeBSD beastie 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #8: Tue Jul 27 18:32:02 CEST 2010     root at beastie:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/APEKERNEL  amd64

>Description:
In the linux(4) man page is stated that in order to have linux ABI emulation, the following line must be included in the kernel configuration file:

options COMPAT_LINUX

The one above should be:

options COMPAT_LINUX32

since 8.1-RELEASE
>How-To-Repeat:
man linux
>Fix:
A very simple patch is attached

Patch attached with submission follows:

--- /usr/src/share/man/man4/linux.4	2010-07-25 13:40:15.000000000 +0200
+++ linux.4	2010-08-01 20:23:46.000000000 +0200
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 place the following line in your
 kernel configuration file:
 .Bd -ragged -offset indent
-.Cd "options COMPAT_LINUX"
+.Cd "options COMPAT_LINUX32"
 .Ed
 .Pp
 Alternatively, to load the ABI as a


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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