From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: David <davidhu0903ex3@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: man-pages bug report: qsort.3
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:23:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <atigDBJr6krOG9Vd@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALAj+JbRE6K3mbps9+s4KigF-spW2pQZN6nLNyWYeHy6t_OT+g@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi David,
> Date: 2026-10-21 11:35:17+0800
> From: David <davidhu0903ex3@gmail.com>
>
> Hi Alejandro Colomar,
>
> I would like to report a typo in the qsort (
> https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/qsort.3.html) man page.
> The first argument of `qsort` should be `base`, but there seem to be two
> `size_t` types incorrectly inserted there. The argument for `qsort_r` also
> seems to be corrupted.
It is actually valid and correct GNU C (albeit relatively unknown).
See <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/aqqih5uGqYP0D_db@devuan/>.
Have a lovely day!
Alex
>
> Regards,
> David
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