Hello Richard, On 23 December 2015 at 20:30, richardvoigt@xxxxxxxxx <richardvoigt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From the context, it is apparent that in the code explaining ppoll in > terms of poll, timeout_ts must be a pointer. > > Usage #1: ready = ppoll(&fds, nfds, timeout_ts, &sigmask); > > Usage #2: (timeout_ts == NULL) > > Thus member access in (timeout_ts.tv_sec * 1000 + timeout_ts.tv_nsec / > 1000000) is an error. Thanks. Patch applied. Cheers, Michael > man2/poll.2 | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man2/poll.2 b/man2/poll.2 > index bcbecad..34b55a6 100644 > --- a/man2/poll.2 > +++ b/man2/poll.2 > @@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ executing the following calls: > int timeout; > > timeout = (timeout_ts == NULL) ? \-1 : > - (timeout_ts.tv_sec * 1000 + timeout_ts.tv_nsec / 1000000); > + (timeout_ts\->tv_sec * 1000 + timeout_ts\->tv_nsec / 1000000); > pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &sigmask, &origmask); > ready = poll(&fds, nfds, timeout); > pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, &origmask, NULL); -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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