[PATCH] sem_overview.7: Fix typo (semget => shmget)

[PATCH] sem_overview.7: Fix typo (semget => shmget)

[Bo Borgerson]

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Hi,

The sem_overview(7) man page makes reference to "a System V shared 
memory segment created using semget(2)".  Was this intended to be 
"shmget(2)"?

Please see attached patch against current git master.

Thanks,

Bo

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>From cc406c10dd443f79e9073f053619a9c475ec97ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bo Borgerson <gigabo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:12:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] sem_overview.7: Fix typo (semget => shmget)

In reference to creation of a SysV shared memory segment.
---
 man7/sem_overview.7 |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man7/sem_overview.7 b/man7/sem_overview.7
index ef354fe..fb706d2 100644
--- a/man7/sem_overview.7
+++ b/man7/sem_overview.7
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ A thread-shared semaphore is placed in an area of memory shared
 between by the threads of a process, for example, a global variable.
 A process-shared semaphore must be placed in a shared memory region
 (e.g., a System V shared memory segment created using
-.BR semget (2),
+.BR shmget (2),
 or a POSIX shared memory object built created using
 .BR shm_open (3)).
 
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Re: [PATCH] sem_overview.7: Fix typo (semget => shmget)

[Michael Kerrisk]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Bo Borgerson <gigabo-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The sem_overview(7) man page makes reference to "a System V shared memory
> segment created using semget(2)".  Was this intended to be "shmget(2)"?
>
> Please see attached patch against current git master.

Thanks. Patch applied for 3.25.

Cheers,

Michael


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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/
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