Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.01-1
Severity: normal

The stdin(3) man page should reflect the current behavior under Linux.
Since bug <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=682> is
not fixed, the stdin(3) man page should be updated. It is written:

The integer file descriptors associated with the streams
.Nm stdin ,
.Nm stdout ,
and
.Nm stderr
are 0, 1, and 2, respectively.

but a freopen() can change that. Since this is not obvious, the man
page should say "At program startup, the integer file descriptors
associated with...".

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on:
ii  manpages                      2.01-1     Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin

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