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Bug 392401

Summary: Incorrect error description for non-existent interfaces in connect(2)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Adam Stokes <astokes>
Component: man-pagesAssignee: Ivana Varekova <varekova>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 5.1CC: ohudlick, tao
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2008-0587 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-07-16 13:37:56 UTC Type: ---
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Description Flags
patch to correct man page none

Description Adam Stokes 2007-11-20 14:23:00 UTC
Description of problem:
The man page of connect(2) says that,
 "EAGAIN
     No more free local ports or insufficient entries in the routing cache."
 
 However, the present system returns "EADDRNOTAVAIL" at the above-mentioned
 errors.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-pages-2.39-11

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. man 2 connect
  
Actual results:
Describes EAGAIN

Expected results:
Should describe EADDRNOTAVAIL

Additional info:

Comment 1 Adam Stokes 2007-11-20 14:23:01 UTC
Created attachment 264921 [details]
patch to correct man page

Comment 2 Issue Tracker 2007-12-03 13:27:39 UTC
Sorry I don't have permission to set that flag. Ill forward this note up
to engineering.

Internal Status set to 'Waiting on Engineering'

This event sent from IssueTracker by astokes 
 issue 133170

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2008-07-16 13:37:56 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0587.html