On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 07:42:45AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> Hi Josh! > > Hi Michael! Nice talking to you again after LPC. :)
See you again in Prague? Cheers, Michael >> 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 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
