Hello Scot, On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Scott Walls <sawalls@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > manpages-dev version 3.23-1 > Ubuntu 10.04 > man 3 getaddrinfo > On line 74-75, in the description of the ai_flags member, it says "Multiple > flags are specified by logically OR-ing them together." > This should say "Multiple flags are specified by bitwise OR-ing them > together." > I believe this to be true for the following reasons: > > the result of logical OR ( || ) is always 1 or 0 (this is how it is defined > in Harbinson and Steele, at least), so it would be impossible to extract out > the different bitflags > on lines 80 "and ai_flags to (AI_V4MAPPED | AI_ADDRCONFIG)" it seems that > bitwise or is the proper choice > > If you need any more information, please feel free to ask. > Thanks > Scott Walls Thanks. Of course you are right. Changed for man-pages-3.26. thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
