From: "Charlie Gordon" <gnu@chqrlie.org>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: PROBLEM: documentation error in man page for ptsname(3)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 09:45:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000701c89883$6a12bdd0$3d02a8c0@D35PN52J> (raw)
The prototype for ptsname_r is incorrect. It reads:
char *ptsname_r(int fd, char *buf, size_t buflen);
The actual prototype for this function in glibc stdlib.h is
extern int ptsname_r (int __fd, char *__buf, size_t __buflen);
This is very confusing as the test for an error is exactly the opposite ;-)
The manual page is dated 2004-12-17, but seems current as part of release
2.79. The bug is present in the online version at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/ptsname.3.html .
THX
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Charles Gordon (chqrlie)
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