Bug 1159335

Summary:	man statfs out of date
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Ken Olum <kdo>
Component:	man-pages-overrides	Assignee:	Jan Chaloupka <jchaloup>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Iveta Wiedermann <isenfeld>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.6	CC:	isenfeld, lmiksik, ovasik
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ManPageChange
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OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	man-pages-overrides-6.7.5-1.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, the statfs struct section in the statfs(2) manual page did not mention the "f_flags" and "f_spare" fields. This update adds the missing fields to statfs(2).	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2015-07-22 06:20:31 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Ken Olum 2014-10-31 15:09:46 UTC

"man statfs" in both RHEL 6.4 and 6.6 gives an out-of-date
description of the statfs structure.  It claims that it ends with
f_namelen, but the structure in /usr/include/bits/statfs.h has more fields.

Comment 2 Jan Chaloupka 2014-10-31 20:18:56 UTC

Hi Ken,

statfs.2 from rawhide can be taken. There is just one issue. The last field in statfs struct ends with:

    __SWORD_TYPE f_flags;
    __SWORD_TYPE f_spare[4];
  };

f_spare[4], here four. But in man page, there is f_spare[5] (here five). This could be just a typo in man page. I will ask upstream about that.

Comment 4 Jan Chaloupka 2015-02-09 08:45:38 UTC

Partially solved in thread [1]. However, statfs.2 is still being discussed.

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-man/msg07979.html

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2015-07-22 06:20:31 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-1295.html