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Re: error in manpage recvfrom


From: Andreas Jaeger
Subject: Re: error in manpage recvfrom
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 07:57:37 +0200
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Marshal <address@hidden> writes:

> There is a very small error in the man page of recvfrom.
> I don't know if this is the right place to report it but
> here we go.

Andries is the maintainer of the man page, I've CC'ed him to verify
this.

> between argument 4 and argument 5 a comma (,) is missing.
>
> --- copy/paste
> SYNOPSIS
>         #include <sys/types.h>
>         #include <sys/socket.h>
>
>         int recv(int s, void *buf, int len, unsigned int flags);
>
> -->THIS LINE--->       int recvfrom(int s, void *buf, int len,
> unsigned int flags struct sockaddr *from, int *fromlen);
>
>         int recvmsg(int s, struct msghdr *msg, unsigned int flags);

This is fine in man-pages-1.35 but the declaration above is broken in
another way also: flags is just an int, not an unsigned int.  1.35 has
this correct so I guess you're using an old man-pages package,

Andreas

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