Re: Error (?) in man page for ppoll(2)

2019-07-29 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
>> +The timeout value expressed in >> +.IR *ip >> +is invalid (nragtive). > ^^^ > > Typo. Otherwise, I approve of the patch. Thanks! Fixed. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming

Re: Error (?) in man page for ppoll(2)

2019-07-29 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello Alan, > > On 7/21/19 5:32 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > > Here are two extracts from the man page for ppoll(2) (from the > > man-pages 4.16 package; the 5.01 version is the same): > > > >Specifying a negative value in timeout

Re: Error (?) in man page for ppoll(2)

2019-07-29 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hello Alan, On 7/21/19 5:32 PM, Alan Stern wrote: > Here are two extracts from the man page for ppoll(2) (from the > man-pages 4.16 package; the 5.01 version is the same): > >Specifying a negative value in timeout means an infinite timeout. > > >Other than the difference in the

Error (?) in man page for ppoll(2)

2019-07-21 Thread Alan Stern
Here are two extracts from the man page for ppoll(2) (from the man-pages 4.16 package; the 5.01 version is the same): Specifying a negative value in timeout means an infinite timeout. Other than the difference in the precision of the timeout argument, the following ppoll()