From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bugzilla-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/ihj7yzEB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org Subject: [Bug 61911] incorrect sentence in the description of struct pollfd's events field Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:19:24 +0000 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61911 Michael Kerrisk changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC| |mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Resolution|--- |CODE_FIX --- Comment #1 from Michael Kerrisk --- Thanks, Paolo. I'm not sure what I was thinking of when I wrote that text. I applied the patch below. diff --git a/man2/poll.2 b/man2/poll.2 index b0159d2..0a70065 100644 --- a/man2/poll.2 +++ b/man2/poll.2 @@ -89,12 +89,15 @@ The field is an input parameter, a bit mask specifying the events the application is interested in for the file descriptor .IR fd . -If this field is specified as zero, -then all events are ignored for -.IR fd -and +This field may be specified as zero, +in which case the only events that can be returned in .I revents -returns zero. +are +.BR POLLHUP , +.BR POLLERR , +and +.B POLLNVAL +(see below). The field .I revents -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html