Re: rp should be ep in PTHREAD_COND_DESTROY(3P)

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 12/12/2015 10:04 AM, 张海 wrote:
> In the EXAMPLES section of PTHREAD_COND_DESTROY(3P), there are the
> following piece of code:
> 
> (A) pthread_cond_broadcast(&ep->notbusy);
>     pthread_mutex_unlock(&lp->lm);
> (B) pthread_cond_destroy(&rp->notbusy);
> 
> However according to the context, the rp in (B) should be ep, as in
> (A), and there are no other occurrence of rp within the page. Key e
> and r are close to each other anyway.
> 
> I'm referring to a man-pages 4.02-4 on Arch Linux.
> 
> (I'm sending this again because vger.kernel.org rejected my previous
> email sent from Google Inbox for having HTML content which cannot be
> turned off within it.)

Thanks. This is a bug in the text of the standard, which apparently
has already been fixed:

http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=910

I probably won't fix this page, but one day in the future we'll 
upgrade the 3p pages to latest version from The Open Group.

Thanks,

Michael


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