On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 07:42:45AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Hi Josh!
Hi Michael! Nice talking to you again after LPC. :) > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > > Package: manpages-dev > > Version: 3.32-0.2 > > Severity: normal > > File: /usr/share/man/man2/timerfd_settime.2.gz > > > > timerfd_settime(2) states that "The old_value argument returns a > > structure containing the setting of the timer that was current at the > > time of the call"; however, it does not mention that the caller can pass > > NULL to ignore that value. Only the example shows that the caller can > > pass NULL. > > Thanks for the report. For upstream 3.33, I applied the patch below. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > --- a/man2/timerfd_create.2 > +++ b/man2/timerfd_create.2 > @@ -167,10 +167,13 @@ that is, the timer will expire when the value of that > clock reaches the value specified in > .IR new_value.it_value ). > > -The > +If the > .I old_value > -argument returns a structure containing the setting of the timer that > -was current at the time of the call; see the description of > +argument is not NULL, then the > +.I itimerspec > +structure that it points to is used to return the setting of the timer > +that was current at the time of the call; > +see the description of > .BR timerfd_gettime () > following. > .\" Looks good to me! Thanks, Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
