tags 476484 fixed-upstream thanks Timothy -- thanks for your report. I've added text to the upstream 2.80 release to clarify the details for multithreaded programs.
Cheers, michael On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Timothy Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 2.79-2 > Severity: normal > > The manpage for raise, incorrectly describes it as sending a signal to the > current process; > infact it sends the signal to the calling thread. Therefore the statement > that raise(sig) is > equivalent to kill(getpid(), sig) is false. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-teb8 (PREEMPT) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: > ii manpages 2.79-2 Manual pages about using a > GNU/Lin > > manpages-dev recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > > > -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Want to report a man-pages bug? Look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
