Bug 173383

Summary:	sem_wait man page error
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Eric Desjardins <desjare>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Eric Desjardins 2005-11-16 20:15:16 UTC

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Description of problem:
sem_wait man page mention that it always return 0 which is false. It can return -1 and errno can be set to EINTR

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man sem_wait
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Additional info:

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2005-11-16 22:57:33 UTC

You are reading the LinuxThreads man page.  And in LinuxThreads, sem_wait can
only return 0.  For NPTL you should look at NPTL/POSIX man pages, for sem_wait
man 3p sem_wait.