See the bug 63147.
Jakub,should the man page be changed, and in what what?
nice(2) shouldn't be changed, aside from possibly mentioning that glibc-2.2.5 and later returns the new priority... the syscall is the same, AFAIK. There should probably be a nice(3) that documents that the library interface conforms to SuS. Or do we not do separate section 3 pages for places where glibc changes the returns of syscalls? In any case, especially if the symbol isn't versioned, we need to add this to the release notes.
I don't think the (2) man pages describe the raw system calls. That is you can't apply the xxx(2) mage page to syscall (SYS_xxxx, ....). For example, STAT(2) System calls STAT(2) NAME stat, fstat, lstat - get file status SYNOPSIS #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <unistd.h> int stat(const char *file_name, struct stat *buf); int fstat(int filedes, struct stat *buf); int lstat(const char *file_name, struct stat *buf); DESCRIPTION These functions return information about the specified file. You do not need any access rights to the file to get this information but you need search rights to all directories named in the path leading to the file. stat stats the file pointed to by file_name and fills in buf. You can't replace stat ("foo", &buf) with syscall (SYS_stat, "foo", &buf) The xxx (2) man pages are for the cooked syscalls provided by glibc. You can have a separate man page for syscall (). But I don't think adding nice (3) will help anyone if there is nice (2).
The man page should document the standard. A deviation from that is a bug in the component implementing it, not in the man page. If there is one, please add a patch :)