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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-03-04 13:48:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-03-04 14:32:30 +0100 |
| commit | a2300b58d14db599ad66d7a8b725a04983f9902e (patch) | |
| tree | 7006d484165393cb0cc3f929e7343dce5f885fa2 | |
| parent | 77a47e474d2d29b9f8eceb18f02399a758b2d768 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-a2300b58d14db599ad66d7a8b725a04983f9902e.tar.gz | |
adjtimex.2: Update details of buf.offset EINVAL error
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/adjtimex.2 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/adjtimex.2 b/man2/adjtimex.2 index 8f52b64041..4d29fbb24b 100644 --- a/man2/adjtimex.2 +++ b/man2/adjtimex.2 @@ -378,10 +378,12 @@ returns \-1 and sets .I buf does not point to writable memory. .TP -.B EINVAL +.BR EINVAL " (kernels before Linux 2.6.26)" An attempt was made to set .I buf.offset -to a value outside the range \-131071 to +131071. +to a value outside the permitted range. +In kernels before Linux 2.0, the permitted range was (\-131072, +131072). +From Linux 2.0 onwards, the permitted range was (\-512000, +512000). .TP .B EINVAL An attempt was made to set |