Hello Pat, On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pat Pannuto <pat.pannuto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is found on both my installed 3.27 and the html 3.32 release > http://kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/pthread_sigmask.3.html > > In the sample code, the comment indicates blocking SIGINT, while the code > appears to be blocking SIGQUIT and SIGURS1. This is confusing. I believe > removing the words "Block SIGINT; " would clarify the example. > > Sorry for not sending a patch, the git repo seems to still be down. > (from here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git) > > Please CC on any replies, I am not on these mailing lists. > > -pat > > relevant bits: > > /* Block SIGINT; other threads created by main() will inherit > a copy of the signal mask. */ > > sigemptyset(&set); > sigaddset(&set, SIGQUIT); > sigaddset(&set, SIGUSR1); > s = pthread_sigmask(SIG_BLOCK, &set, NULL); Thanks for this report. For man-pages-3.36, I applied the patch below. Cheers, Michael --- a/man3/pthread_sigmask.3 +++ b/man3/pthread_sigmask.3 @@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) sigset_t set; int s; - /* Block SIGINT; other threads created by main() will inherit - a copy of the signal mask. */ + /* Block SIGQUIT and SIGUSR1; other threads created by main() + will inherit a copy of the signal mask. */ sigemptyset(&set); sigaddset(&set, SIGQUIT); -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
