Bug#476484: manpages-dev: raise(int sig) is incorrectly described as sending signal to the calling process

2008-04-17 Thread Joey Schulze
Timothy Baldwin 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

Bug#476484: manpages-dev: raise(int sig) is incorrectly described as sending signal to the calling process

2008-04-17 Thread tim
Quoting Joey Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Timothy Baldwin 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

Bug#476484: manpages-dev: raise(int sig) is incorrectly described as sending signal to the calling process

2008-04-17 Thread Martin Schulze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Joey Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Timothy Baldwin 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

Bug#476484: manpages-dev: raise(int sig) is incorrectly described as sending signal to the calling process

2008-04-17 Thread Michael Kerrisk
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Joey Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timothy Baldwin 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

Bug#476484: manpages-dev: raise(int sig) is incorrectly described as sending signal to the calling process

2008-04-17 Thread Michael Kerrisk
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:

Bug#476484: manpages-dev: raise(int sig) is incorrectly described as sending signal to the calling process

2008-04-16 Thread Timothy Baldwin
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