Package: manpages-dev Version: 2.79-2 Severity: normal The manpage for raise, incorrectly describes it as sending a signal to the current process; infact it sends the signal to the calling thread. Therefore the statement that raise(sig) is equivalent to kill(getpid(), sig) is false.
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