Package: manpages-dev Version: 3.22-1 Severity: normal
The select(2) manoage says, under RETURN VALUE: On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately; the sets and timeout become undefined, so do not rely on their contents after an error. However, this is neither the (current?) behaviour on Debian, nor does it comply to POSIX (which requires the sets to be unmodified). Since behaviour matches POSIX, and this would make select(2) non-posix compliant, I suspect that the manpage is simply wrong. A POSIX-correct wording would be: On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately; the timeout becomes undefined and the sets stay non-modified. (In fact, I think glibc copies the timeout on purpose, so the timeout would also be non-modified). -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on: hi manpages 3.22-1 Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin manpages-dev recommends no packages. Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests: ii konqueror [man-browser] 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 KDE's advanced file manager, web b ii man-db [man-browser] 2.5.6-5 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
