Debian Bug report logs - #460637
manpages-dev: Port over whatever is useful from LinuxThreads pages

Package: manpages-dev; Maintainer for manpages-dev is Dr. Tobias Quathamer <[email protected]>; Source for manpages-dev is src:manpages (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Josef Spillner <[email protected]>

Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:06:08 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: moreinfo, upstream

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Package: glibc-doc
Version: 2.7-6
Severity: normal

The man pages are LinuxThreads-specific, even though the default
implementation of pthreads is NPTL nowadays. Some library calls such as
pthread_mutexattr_setpshared are missing, and some of the limitations
(such as using inter-process mutex locking), options and other
peculiarities also differ.

Unfortunately I think that the docs are outdated upstream as well
(including the info pages in glibc-doc-reference), but nevertheless this
is a drawback for development and thus constitutes a reason to have a
bug filed. Maybe adding a few lines on top of each man page already
avoids some of the misleading information.

Usually I wouldn't choose severity normal for man pages, but this page
doesn't really contain anything else. Feel free to readjust :)

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