Bug 265913

Summary:	sys-apps/man-pages sigpending errors
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Christopher Head <bugs>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	VERIFIED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Christopher Head 2009-04-12 22:17:49 UTC

In the man page for sigpending (in man-pages-3.19), I see the following errors:

1. In NOTES, there is the sentence "The set of signals that is pending for a thread is the union of the set of signals that is pending for that thread and the set of threads that is peding for the process as a whole; see signal(7).". The word "pending" is misspelt (missing a letter "n"); also, "the set of threads that is pending" should be "the set of signals that is pending".

2. The next line states "A child created via fork(2) initially has an empty pending signal set; the pending signal set is preserved across an execve(2).". However, the man page for execve states that "The set of pending signals is cleared (sigpending(2)).". I am not sure which is correct, but these are obviously contradictory.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2009-04-13 01:04:44 UTC

ive sent patches upstream for both issues.  i dont bother adding fixes to the package as the man page guys are pretty good at putting out regular updates, and it isnt like documentation is super critical ;).