[PATCH] man/man2/memfd_secret.2: tfix

Štěpán Němec <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:11:11 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-man
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Fixes: ac5edfeb1dd6 (2021-08-27; "memfd_secret.2: New page describing memfd_secret() system call")
Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:44:19 +0200
Alejandro Colomar wrote:

> I think I'd fix this typo in a separate commit, since it's a meaningful
> typo (both EMFILE and ENFILE exist, and they have a slightly different
> meaning).
>
> In the fix, please include the following tags:
>
> 	Fixes: ac5edfeb1dd6 (2021-08-27; "memfd_secret.2: New page describing memfd_secret() system call")
> 	Cc: Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>

Fair enough.

FWIW, out of abundance of caution (admittedly verging on paranoia), I
did verify that unprivileged memfd_secret distinguished EMFILE and
ENFILE as expected (brought about by setrlimit for the former and
limiting fs.file-max for the latter in a VM running a recent alpine-edge
image) before sending the original patch, but the hypothesis that this
was anything other than a typo or a copy-paste error seemed too
far-fetched to mention that.

 man/man2/memfd_secret.2 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/man/man2/memfd_secret.2 b/man/man2/memfd_secret.2
index 0ea4b8e93c37..4033adc75772 100644
--- a/man/man2/memfd_secret.2
+++ b/man/man2/memfd_secret.2
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ .SH ERRORS
 .B EMFILE
 The per-process limit on the number of open file descriptors has been reached.
 .TP
-.B EMFILE
+.B ENFILE
 The system-wide limit on the total number of open files has been reached.
 .TP
 .B ENOMEM

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