On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Joey Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Timothy Baldwin wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Do you have a proof for this claim?

Timothy is correct here -- I will fix the page.

Thanks!


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