Bug#758293: /usr/share/man/man3/drand48.3.gz: rand48() incorrectly declared obsolete

2014-09-13 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 758293 fixed-upstream thanks On 08/16/2014 04:52 AM, Lorenzo Beretta wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.65-1 > Severity: minor > File: /usr/share/man/man3/drand48.3.gz > > Dear Maintainer, > > see Keith Thompson's detailed explanation at > http://stackoverflow.com/a/25276434. > >

Bug#756602: printf(3) manpage: please document that %n can't include flags, width or precision

2014-08-01 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Michael Kerrisk , 2014-08-01, 08:55: > >> [[ >> That argument shall be an >> .I "int\ *", >> or variant whose size matches the (optionally) >> supplied integer length modifier. >> ]] > > > Looks good to me, thanks! > > Now I noticed that in th

Bug#756602: printf(3) manpage: please document that %n can't include flags, width or precision

2014-07-31 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Michael Kerrisk , 2014-07-31, 12:42: > >> I've applied the patch below. > > > Thanks! > > >> +That argument shall be an >> +.I "int\ *", >> +or variant, as specified by the >> +.B l >> +or >> +.B ll >> +length modifier. > > > Hmm. Why only l o

Bug#756602: printf(3) manpage: please document that %n can't include flags, width or precision

2014-07-31 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 756602 fixed-upstream thanks Hello Jakub, I've applied the patch below. Cheers, Michael --- a/man3/printf.3 +++ b/man3/printf.3 @@ -332,9 +332,7 @@ For other conversions, the behavior is undefined. .B \- The converted value is to be left adjusted on the field boundary. (The default is

Bug#756599: printf(3) manpage: stray asterisk in "NAN*"

2014-07-31 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
> Could you make this character italic, to make it clear it is not literal? Without being sure of the details, I am reluctant to make any change. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#756599: printf(3) manpage: stray asterisk in "NAN*"

2014-07-31 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Jakub, I do not know the details here, but are you sure this is wrong? The preceding part of the sentence says [and a string starting with "nan" for NaN, in the case of f conversion], and I take the "*" to mean a wildcard pattern match, analogous with [a string starting with "nan" for NaN]. This

Bug#708394: manpages-dev: connect(2) does not documment EPROTOTYPE

2014-06-25 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 708394 fixed-upstream thanks I added the following text to the man page: EPROTOTYPE The socket type does not support the requested communi‐ cations protocol. This error can occur, for example, on an attempt to connect a UNIX domain datagram

Bug#748926: manpages-dev: umask(2) example unclear

2014-05-22 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:40 PM, wxcafe wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.65-1 > Severity: minor > > Dear Maintainer, > > the man page for umask(2) is a bit unclear, in that it contains the > following line : > 0666 & ~022 = 0644; i.e., rw-r--r-- > that is slightly misleading (took

Bug#748887: manpages-dev: Mistake in STDIO(3) manpage

2014-05-21 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 748887 fixed-upstream thanks Colin, Thanks for reporting that. That text bug had been there for 20 years! Fixed now, after a patch from Simon Paillard. Cheers, Michael On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:26 PM, Colin Williams wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.65-1 > Severity: normal > >

Bug#344233: Bug still exists

2014-05-17 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
e queued a fix for this upstream. Cheers, Michael Original Message Subject: Re: [PATCH] host.conf(5): order option deprecated, replaced by nsswitch.conf(5) Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 17:15:22 +0200 From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) To: Simon Paillard , linux-...@vger.kernel.org CC:

Bug#729436: [libc6-dev] strcasecmp declared twice

2014-05-08 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 729436 fixed-upstream thanks On 05/05/2014 05:53 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > reassign 729436 manpages-dev > retitle 729436 manpages-dev: please explain why strcasecmp(3) is defined in > both and > thanks > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:26:56PM +0200, Török Edwin wrote: >> Package: libc6

Bug#728240: Processed: Re: Bug#728240: libc6: S_IFMT constants not included when _POSIX_C_SOURCE is defined as 200112L

2014-05-08 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 728240 fixed-upstream thanks The story sadly is quite complicated. I added the following text to the page upstream: The definitions of most of the above file type test macros are provided if any of the following feature test macros are defined: _BSD_SOURCE (in

Bug#746569: getrusage: documents how to get RUSAGE_THREAD

2014-05-01 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 746569 fixed-upstream thanks [forgot to CC control@ on last mail...] On 05/01/2014 04:19 PM, Bill Allombert wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.61-1 > Severity: normal > > Hello Simon, > > man getrusage documents RUSAGE_THREAD. > However, as far as I can see, this symbol is only av

Bug#746569: getrusage: documents how to get RUSAGE_THREAD

2014-05-01 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 746569 fixed-upstream thanks On 05/01/2014 04:19 PM, Bill Allombert wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.61-1 > Severity: normal > > Hello Simon, > > man getrusage documents RUSAGE_THREAD. > However, as far as I can see, this symbol is only available > if _GNU_SOURCE is defined, but

Bug#745775: manpages-dev: connect(2) does not document EADDRNOTAVAIL

2014-04-26 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 04/25/2014 11:02 PM, William Morriss wrote: > Okay I was able to do it without fork. This one been tested on Arch > Linux and Ubuntu. It's simpler I think and also won't give the bind > error. It's below and attached. William, Thanks for that. I've got it now, I think. The point is I think t

Bug#745775: manpages-dev: connect(2) does not document EADDRNOTAVAIL

2014-04-25 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
William, this report is a little vague... Do you have a *minimal* program that demonstrates the problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#669866: manpages: New manual page: hostname(5)

2014-04-24 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hi Lennart, On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 23.04.14 07:42, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) (mtk.manpa...@gmail.com) > wrote: > >> On 04/21/2014 05:01 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 03:39:20PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk

Bug#669866: manpages: New manual page: hostname(5)

2014-04-22 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[Adding Lennart] On 04/21/2014 05:01 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 03:39:20PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> On 04/21/2014 10:04 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >>> [Roger Leigh] >>>> Sorry, I've not done anything on this lately

Bug#669866: manpages: New manual page: hostname(5)

2014-04-21 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 04/21/2014 10:04 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Roger Leigh] >> Sorry, I've not done anything on this lately--I'm not too active in >> Debian at present due to RSI and other reasons. Petter, would you >> possibly be able to look into this on the sysvinit side? > > As far as I can see from h

Bug#669866: manpages: New manual page: hostname(5)

2014-03-26 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
@Roger, ping! On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > I'd be willing to take this page into upstream man-pages, but it needs > to have a license (see > https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/licenses.html). > > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:04 PM, To

Bug#574041: [daniel.bal...@gmail.com: man 2 write - clarification]

2014-03-26 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Joey Schulze wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.24-1 > > Forwarded mail from Daniel. > > - Forwarded message from Daniel Baluta - > > Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:48:24 +0200 > Subject: man 2 write - clarification > From: Daniel Baluta > To: ubuntu-

Bug#574370: manpages-dev: select(2) sets cannot become undefined

2014-01-24 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 574370 fixed-upstream thanks I've made the text: On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error; the file descriptor sets are unmodified, and timeout becomes undefined. Thanks for the report. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@

Bug#669866: manpages: New manual page: hostname(5)

2014-01-24 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
I'd be willing to take this page into upstream man-pages, but it needs to have a license (see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/licenses.html). On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Roger Leigh > >> Tollef, would it be possible for systemd to drop hostname(5) and >> use t

Bug#626983: ferror(): return no error when the stream is closed

2014-01-24 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Note that the fclose(3) page does already say: RETURN VALUE Upon successful completion 0 is returned. Otherwise, EOF is returned and errno is set to indicate the error. In either case any further access (including another call to fclose()) to the stream results

Bug#638186: locale({1,5}) should describe LANG and LANGUAGE

2014-01-18 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
251,4 +258,4 @@ should consider renaming their option to .BR putenv (3), .BR setenv (3), .BR unsetenv (3), -.BR locale (5) +.BR locale (7) On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > My apologies. They are described in the *locale(7)* page. > > On Sat, Jan 18

Bug#638186: locale({1,5}) should describe LANG and LANGUAGE

2014-01-18 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
My apologies. They are described in the *locale(7)* page. On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > LANG and LANGUAGE certainly *are* described in the upstream locale(5) page > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Simon Paillard wrote: >> Cont

Bug#638186: locale({1,5}) should describe LANG and LANGUAGE

2014-01-18 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
LANG and LANGUAGE certainly *are* described in the upstream locale(5) page On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Simon Paillard wrote: > Control: -1 retitle locale(5) should describe LANG and LANGUAGE > > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 04:18:03PM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote: >> Package: manpag

Bug#735590: manpages: filesystems(5) should describe the nodev prefix in /proc/filesystems

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 735590 fixed-upstream thanks Hi Axel, On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> One thing that would have helped here is if you could have supplied >> some text explaining what "nodev" i

Bug#735590: manpages: filesystems(5) should describe the nodev prefix in /proc/filesystems

2014-01-17 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Axel, On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.55-1 > > filesystems(5) says: > >When, as is customary, the proc filesystem is mounted on /proc, >you can find in the file /proc/filesystems which filesystems your >kernel currently

Bug#723659: strspn, strcspn - search a string for a set of characters

2014-01-01 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags -1 fixed-upstream thanks On 09/19/13 02:18, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > > $ man strspn | head -6 > [...] >strspn, strcspn - search a string for a set of characters > > However from POSIX: > > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/strspn.htm

Bug#729570: Year since 1900

2014-01-01 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 729570 fixed-upstream thanks On 11/15/13 09:40, Simon Paillard wrote: > Control: tag -1 +confirmed +upstream > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 02:14:17PM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Package: manpages-dev >> Tags: patch >> >> It would be nice if the man page for strptime would be changed fro

Bug#666972: manpages: 'man proc': /proc/partition block size and count method undocumented

2013-09-04 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Simon Paillard wrote: > Control: tag -1 +upstream > > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 08:43:17PM -0400, A. Costa wrote: >> Package: manpages >> Version: 3.35-0.1 >> Severity: normal >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> % man proc | grep -A 2 -n '/proc/partition' >> 988:

Bug#553477: [PATCH] dir_colors.5: keywords SUID, SGID, STICKY, STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE, OTHER_WRITABLE

2013-08-09 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 553477 fixed-upstream thanks Simon, I have applied this patch, and also added the various synonyms that the reporter, Stas, pointed out. Cheers, Michael On 08/06/13 02:14, Simon Paillard wrote: > See http://bugs.debian.org/553477 > See ls.c and dircolors.c in coreutils > --- > man5/dir_co

Bug#604019: Remove lilo from SEE ALSO too

2013-08-01 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 604019 fixed-upstream thanks On 08/01/13 09:54, Eugen Dedu wrote: > Salut Simon, > > From the new man page: > > SEE ALSO > lilo.conf(5), klogd(8), lilo(8), mount(8) > > lilo items should be removed from here too. Done. Thanks for spotting that. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSC

Bug#564874: manpages: Please ship ld.so manpage

2013-07-22 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Andrew, On 07/21/13 00:27, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Things from my past coming back to haunt me, but if people want to > keep ccing me... > > On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:15:25PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> Yes. I've never been quite sure though whether the particular >> kernel versions to spe

Bug#564874: manpages: Please ship ld.so manpage

2013-07-15 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Simon Paillard wrote: > (but no more LD_ASSUME_KERNEL). I just drafted the following for ld.so.8 in man-pages: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL (glibc since 2.2.3) Each shared library can inform the dynamic linker of the minimum kernel ABI ve

Bug#705293: manpages-dev: access(2) does not document return-value behavior for F_OK

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 705293 fixed-upstream thanks On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:26 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.44-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > The man page for the 'access' function describes two ways to use the > function: to check whether the current real user ID h

Bug#704787: manpages: units should use an actual µ

2013-04-07 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 704787 fixed-upstream thanks On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:24 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.44-1 > Severity: minor > File: /usr/share/man/man7/units.7.gz > Tags: patch > > The units(7) man page uses an ASCII u in place of the actual Greek > letter mu. Since we're

Bug#703845: manpages-dev: typo in error() man page error_one_per_line

2013-03-24 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Britton Kerin wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.27-1 > Severity: minor > > > The header of the man page has 'error_on_per_line' but the actual extern int > being documented is 'error_one_per_line'. Of course this also shows up as > the wrong file in ma

Bug#620746: lutimes.3: please warn about possibility of ENOSYS

2013-03-14 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 620746 fixed-upstream thanks Jonathan, I have applied a patch for man-pages-3.50. Thanks for the report. Cheers, Michael On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.27-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: upstream > Justification: http://bugs.debia

Bug#575077: manpages-dev: va_copy manpage doesn't specify the intended behaviour of va_copy

2013-03-11 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 575077 fixed-upstream thanks Friedrich, I've added the following text upstream: The va_copy() macro copies the (previously initialized) vari‐ able argument list src to dest. The behavior is as if va_start() were applied to dest with the same last argument,

Bug#309599: manpages-dev: Return value of res_search and friends

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Florian, Can you provide some supporting eveidence for this patch -- (simple) test code or a specific references in the glibs source? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org

Bug#528015: manpages: securetty is not only used to restrict root login

2013-03-07 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Nicolas FRANCOIS (Nekral) wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.21-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > Hello, > > pam_unix, with the nullok_secure option uses /etc/securetty for a slightly > different purpose than documented in securetty(5). > > securetty(5)

Bug#700529: manpages-dev: confusing NOTES section on O_NONBLOCK in read(2)

2013-02-13 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 700529 fixed-upstream thanks On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Marc Lehmann wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.40-0.1 > Severity: minor > > > The read(2) manpage (possibly others) contains this confusing paragraph in > the NOTES section: > > Many file systems and disks were consid

Bug#533232: read(2): document behavior when count=0 but fd is not open

2013-02-12 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 533232 fixed-upstream thanks On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.21-1 > Severity: minor > > The read(2) manpage currently says > > If _count_ is zero, read() returns zero and has no other results. > > but this does not explain what

Bug#691195: Bug#652443: ioprio_get(2): document who==0

2013-02-12 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hi Jens, Would you be able to comment on http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=691195 please? Either in that bug, or to this mail? Thanks, Michael On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Simon Paillard wrote: > Version: 3.42-1 > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 08:32:49AM +0200, Michae

Bug#542601: manpages-dev: mmap(2) manpage doesn't say that MAP_ANON is not available if _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined

2013-02-12 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 542601 fixed-upstream thanks On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Török Edwin wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.22-1 > Severity: normal > > When _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined the glibc headers no longer define MAP_ANON or > MAP_ANONYMOUS (because _BSD_SOURCE is no longer defined by default)

Bug#674034: manpages-dev: please mention that getpeername() does not work with udp connections as one could expect

2013-02-12 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 674034 fixed-upstream thanks On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Kai Kunschke wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.27-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: upstream patch > > > Subject: /usr/share/man/man2/getpeername.2.gz: please mention that > getpeername() does not work with udp connections as

Bug#553413: proc(5): Add field numbers

2012-12-26 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 553413 fixed-upstream thanks I've now myself made all of these changes, at the same time as I made some other changes in proc(5). I omitted this piece of the downstream patch: > @@ -1195,16 +1195,16 @@ > > .in +4n > .nf > -cache buffer size in KB > -capacity number o

Bug#553413: proc(5): Add field numbers

2012-12-15 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Simon Paillard wrote: > Control: tag -1 +upstream > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 03:02:25AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Package: manpages >> Version: 3.22-1 >> Severity: minor >> Tags: patch >> >> To make it easier to use cut to select the desired fields, it is u

Bug#610036: manpages: update manpage for resolv.conf for IPv6 support

2012-11-11 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 610036 fixed-upstream thanks On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Simon Paillard wrote: > Control: -1 tag +patch > > Hi, > > On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 07:43:46PM +0200, Witold Baryluk wrote: >> On 06-09 15:36, Simon Paillard wrote: >> > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:52:17AM +0100, Witold Baryluk wrot

Bug#604928: stat.2: EOVERFLOW not only for st_size; bit/byte confusion

2012-11-11 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 604928 fixed-upstream thanks On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Simon Paillard wrote: > Control: -1 found 3.42-1 > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 03:08:30PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> stat(2) says: >> >> ERRORS >> (...) >>EOVERFLOW >> (stat()) path refers to a file whose size c

Bug#122383: your bug -- manpages-dev: Ptrace manpage on IA64 is for Linux 2.2

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Simon Paillard wrote: > tags 122383 +confirmed > thanks > > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 11:45:21AM +0100, Johan Walles wrote: >> 2005/12/21, Justin Pryzby : >> > Does this bug still apply in recent manpages packages? >> >> Yes. Although not to the same extent

Bug#633505: manpages-dev: fts(3) has inaccurate description of physical vs. logical

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Simon Paillard wrote: > forwarded 633505 linux-...@vger.kernel.org > thanks > > Hi, > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:30:43PM +0100, James Youngman wrote: >> Package: manpages-dev >> Version: 3.27-1 >> Severity: minor >> >> >> The descriptions of the effects of FTS_L

Bug#675891: manpages: proc(5) /proc/[pid]/stat starttime field has wrong unit

2012-08-17 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 675891 fixed-upstream thanks On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Frédéric Brière wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.40-0.1 > Severity: normal > File: /usr/share/man/man5/proc.5.gz > > The proc(5) description of the starttime field under /proc/[pid]/stat > states that the value is expressed

Bug#652443: ioprio_get(2): document who==0

2012-08-13 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hi Jens, Would you be able to comment please... Thanks, Michael On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > [CCing Jens because of the discussion below about IOPRIO_WHO_USER > below; he may have a comment] > [CCing Марк, who independently noted th

Bug#652443: ioprio_get(2): document who==0

2012-07-28 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
[CCing Jens because of the discussion below about IOPRIO_WHO_USER below; he may have a comment] [CCing Марк, who independently noted the lack of documentation for IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, who==0 .] [CCing Colin McCabe who sent other recent fixes for the ioprio_set.2 page] On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:26

Bug#383296: manpages: nlmsg_pid/nl_pid is *not* the process ID

2012-07-28 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 383296 fixed-upstream thanks I've applied the patch below. Will be in upstream 3.42. Thanks, Michael --- a/man7/netlink.7 +++ b/man7/netlink.7 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ .\" Based on the original comments from Alexey Kuznetsov .\" Modified 2005-12-27 by Hasso Tepper .\" $Id: netlink.7,v 1.8 2000/

Bug#673875: netlink(7): Line in table is too long

2012-06-07 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 673875 fixed-upstream thanks On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.27-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > >  From "man ..." ("nroff -ww ..."): > > nroff: netlink.7: warning: around line 195: table wider than line width > >  Hozizontal l

Bug#674051: rtnetlink(7): Line in table too long

2012-06-07 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 674051 fixed-upstream thanks On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.27-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > >  From "man ..." ("nroff -ww ..."): > > nroff: rtnetlink.7: warning: around line 415: table wider than line width > >  Column gut

Bug#673873: netdevice(7): Line in table too long

2012-05-29 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 673873 fixed-upstream thanks Thanks Bjarni. Applied upstream (3.42). On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.27-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > >  From "man ..." ("nroff -ww ..."): > > nroff: netdevice.7: warning: around line 98: tab

Bug#673873: netdevice(7): Line in table too long

2012-05-29 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 673873 fixed-upstream thanks Thanks Bjarni. Applied upstream (3.42). On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.27-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > >  From "man ..." ("nroff -ww ..."): > > nroff: netdevice.7: warning: around line 98: tab

Bug#673436: [patch], suffixes(7): Warnings from "grotty"

2012-05-28 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 673436 fixed-upstream thanks Thanks Bjarni. I've applied your patch. Cheers, Michael On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.27-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > >  [Also sent to upstream, "linux-man" and "mtk.manpages"] > >  From "m

Bug#662046: manpages-dev: mbsrtowcs() (et al.) is an accident waiting to happen (mbstate_t)

2012-05-06 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Andreas, > So, unless we want "every third" user of mbsrtowcs(3) > to get it wrong, fatally, the documentation should be extended. > A sample phrase would be > "for mbstate_t parameter init, there's no initializer function > defined by the standard - the user is required to have done a proper mems

Bug#671514: console_codes(4): Some fixes to the manual, table, spaces, ellipsis

2012-05-06 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 671514 fixed-upstream thanks Applied for upstream 3.41. Thanks Bjarni! On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.40 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > >  Warning from "groff": > > warning: around line 185: table wider than line width > >  A

Bug#609033: manpages-dev: please improve isgreater(3) description

2012-05-05 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 609033 fixed-upstream thanks Vincent, I've made this change for upstream 3.41. Thanks, Michael On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-05-05 23:53:08 +1200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> So, how about the following replacement text: &

Bug#609033: manpages-dev: please improve isgreater(3) description

2012-05-05 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-04-24 22:13:11 +1200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Vincent, >> >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> > The isgreater(3) man page says: >> > >> >  The

Bug#540872: clock_gettime(2): Document that real-time processes want CLOCK_MONOTONIC, not CLOCK_REALTIME

2012-04-29 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 540872 fixed-upstream thanks Hi Josh! On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:40:48PM +1200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Simon Paillard >> wrote: >> > tags + upstream

Bug#538641: manpages: fixes to utf-8.7

2012-04-29 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 538641 fixed-upstream thanks Applied for upstream 3.41. Cheers, Michael On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:56 AM, brian m. carlson wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.21-1 > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > I've attached a patch to utf-8.7.  It clarifies that 0xc0 and 0xc1 are > not valid i

Bug#156154: Patch

2012-04-29 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 156154 fixed-upstream thanks Fixed in upstream man-pages-3.40 Cheers, Michael On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:41 AM, Eugen Dedu wrote: > tag 156154 - help + patch > thanks > > Here is the patch to fix this bug. > > This bug appears with 3.27-1. > > -- > Eugen Dedu > http://eugen.dedu.free.fr

Bug#621075: manpages-dev: rtnetlink documents wrong return type for RTA_PAYLOAD

2012-04-29 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
>> RTA_PAYLOAD casts the expression to int, at least in 2.6.38.2. It's >> documented >> as unsinged int. Trivial patch included. > > Even since 2.6.11: > http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.11/include/linux/rtnetlink.h#L120 I'm missing it. How is it concluded that the result is cast to (int)? Lookin

Bug#564874: manpages: Please ship ld.so manpage

2012-04-29 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Simon Paillard wrote: > reassign 564874 manpages,libc-bin > thanks > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:38:15AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: >> Package: manpages >> Version: 3.23-1 >> Severity: normal >> >> The current ld.so manpage is from glibc. It's gratuitously out

Bug#540872: clock_gettime(2): Document that real-time processes want CLOCK_MONOTONIC, not CLOCK_REALTIME

2012-04-29 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Simon Paillard wrote: > tags + upstream > thanks > > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:30:34AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: >> Package: manpages >> Version: 3.22-1 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> Developers of real-time programs (programs using real-time scheduling >>

Bug#660479: Debian bug 660479

2012-04-29 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 660479 fixed-upstream thanks I've applied the patch at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=660479#109 for upstream 3.41. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man

Bug#609033: manpages-dev: please improve isgreater(3) description

2012-04-24 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Vincent, On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.27-1 > Severity: wishlist > > The isgreater(3) man page says: > >  The  normal  relation operations (like <, "less than") will fail if one >  of the operands is NaN.  This will cause an exception.

Bug#607398: [PATCH] resolv.conf.5: Describe single-request option

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 607398 fixed-upstream thanks Petr, On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Petr Baudis wrote: > The single-request option was introduced with glibc-2.10. > > Also, a note is added to resolver(3) that many of the options > are actually described in resolv.conf(5). > > Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis >

Bug#665303: libc-bin: getent.1 from (linux-)manpages

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Simon Paillard wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:38:45PM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote: >> Package: libc-bin >> Version: 2.13-27 >> Severity: wishlist >> >> In upstream linux-manpages 3.37 (hopefully soon in Debian), a getent.1 >> manpage >> is now provid

Bug#654926: manpages-dev: inotify_rm_watch(2) incorrectly lists the type of the second argument

2012-04-22 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 654926 fixed-upstream thanks On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Tom Fogal wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.27-1 > Severity: minor > > > The man page for inotify_rm_watch(2) indicates that the second argument > should be of type uint32_t.  In /usr/include/sys/inotify.h, the > argumen

Bug#337581: manpages-dev: dbopen(3) documents non-existent interface

2012-04-22 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 337581 fixed-upstream thanks On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:55 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: > This package contains a dbopen(3) manpage, but no such interface exists > anywhere in libc6[0]. Yes, it looks like glibc dropped these starting with v2.2. > The file referred to in it is part of a > se

Bug#665780: {fread,fwrite}.3: The return value can be the number of characters

2012-03-29 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 665780 fixed-upstream thanks Hello Regid, On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Regid Ichira wrote: > --- On Mon, 3/26/12, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) > wrote: > >> This patch makes no sense to me. > >  Why not?  Won't > >    char c[10]; >    fwrite

Bug#665780: {fread,fwrite}.3: The return value can be the number of characters

2012-03-26 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
This patch makes no sense to me. How could this information be useful? I can see no reason to take this patch upstream. On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Regid Ichira wrote: > Package:  manpages-dev > Version:  3.35-0.1 > Severity: normal > Tags:     patch > File:     /usr/share/man/man3/fread.3.g

Bug#655088: rtnetlink.3: incorrect example

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 655088 fixed-upstream thanks Hello Kirill, and Simon, On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Simon Paillard wrote: > tags 655088 +confirmed +forwarded > thanks > > Hi Kirill, > > On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 05:59:47PM +0400, Kirill Brilliantov wrote: >> Exaple code in rtnetlink.3 isn't work. >> If yo

Bug#664688: keyctl(2): Unnecessary "tab" in some lines in the manual

2012-03-20 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
tags 664688 fixed-upstream thanks On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 3.27-1 > Severity: minor > Tags: patch > >  From "groff": > > :22: warning: tab character in unquoted macro argument > :25: warning: tab character in unquoted macro a

Bug#662781: getopt.3 has a bad example, as is evident in #655685 report

2012-03-06 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Regid Ichira wrote: > --- On Tue, 3/6/12, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> Hi. Upstream maintainer of man-pages here. I'm not at all sure that >> the problem in #655685 is because of getopt(). (How did you conclude >> th

Bug#662781: getopt.3 has a bad example, as is evident in #655685 report

2012-03-06 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
>   The following corrects a bad example in the manual page.  It also > emphasizes the issue.  See, for example, #655685, which was filed for > procps. Hi. Upstream maintainer of man-pages here. I'm not at all sure that the problem in #655685 is because of getopt(). (How did you conclude that it i

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