Subject: misc/3192: bug in manpage sleep(9)
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Drochner <drochner@zel024.zel.kfa-juelich.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/05/1997 21:30:31
>Number: 3192
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: bug in manpage sleep(9)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Feb 5 12:35:02 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Matthias Drochner
>Organization:
KFA Juelich
>Release: current
>Environment:
NetBSD-current
System: NetBSD zel024 1.2B NetBSD 1.2B (TEKNOR) #3: Wed Feb 5 20:31:04 MET 1997 drochner@zel024:/home/drochner/netbsd-970122/sys/arch/i386/compile/TEKNOR i386
>Description:
The manpage sleep(9) describes the tsleep call:
tsleep(void *ident, int priority, int timo, char *wmesg).
The last 2 arguments have to be exchanged.
Perhaps the author blindly copied from the tsleep() header in kern_synch.c,
which is... unusual?
>How-To-Repeat:
man tsleep
>Fix:
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>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: