Hi,
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 01:32:16AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> tags 700529 fixed-upstream
> thanks
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Marc Lehmann
> <debian-report...@plan9.de> wrote:
> > Package: manpages-dev
> > Version: 3.40-0.1
> > Severity: minor
> >
> >
> > The read(2) manpage (possibly others) contains this confusing paragraph in
> > the NOTES section:
[..]
> > I would suggest simply deleting this paragraph, as it continues to confuse
> > people into thinking O_NONBLOCK semantics are possible with files.
>
> Well, O_NONBLOCK does have meaningful semantics w.r.t. file locks.
> But, that doesn't seem to be what this paragraph is talking about, and
> I agree with you that it is confusing. I've removed it.
FTR, will be delivered in 3.48.
commit 7c81ac9ced01451fe86a208c7ffbfab60e1a0b42
Refs: man-pages-3.47-47-g7c81ac9
Author: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpa...@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Feb 14 01:29:45 2013 +0100
read.2: Remove crufty text about O_NONBLOCK on files
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=700529
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