I've attached a patch here that will fix the wrong description reported here. This patch applies against /usr/share/man/man3/pthread_attr_init.3.gz.
This was found at the Debian bug squashing party in Ecublens, Switzerland. Frank
--- - 2003-11-09 17:13:45.808741000 +0100 +++ /tmp/pthread_attr_init3.gz.18519 2003-11-09 17:13:45.000000000 +0100 @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ the thread termination. A thread created in the joinable state can later be put in the -detached thread using !pthread_detach!(3). +detached state using !pthread_detach!(3). .SS schedpolicy
