Re: Man Page Typo (waitpid.2)?

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Helo Robin,

On 04/04/2018 08:26 PM, Robin Kuzmin wrote:
> Michael,
> I'm going to http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/waitpid.2.html
> and after the word "calling"
> I see the word "process"

That HTML rendering is updates about once every 10 weeks, after each
man-pages release. (You can see when the rendering was created by
looking at the COLOPHON at the bottom of the page.)

You need to look in the git repo to see the latest changes.

Thanks,

Michael


> but I expected to see the word "thread"
> in the following sentences:
> * The wait() system call suspends execution of the calling process
>        until one of its children terminates.
> * The waitpid() system call suspends execution of the calling process
>        until a child specified by pid argument has changed state.
> 
> Robin Kuzmin
> kuzmin.robin@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 8:08 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
> <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello Robin,
>>
>> On 30 March 2018 at 01:37, Robin Kuzmin <kuzmin.robin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I still see "the calling process" and no any occurrence of "the calling
>>> thread".
>>
>> I did make changes to the page! Can you please quote the text that
>> still seems wrong to you.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>> Robin Kuzmin
>>> kuzmin.robin@xxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 1:14 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
>>> <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello Robin,
>>>>
>>>> On 03/20/2018 10:07 PM, Robin Kuzmin wrote:
>>>>> I again see "the calling process" instead of "the calling thread".
>>>>> Is there anything I need to know?
>>>>
>>>> The change was made, but perhaps I had not yet pushed it. Please
>>>> check again.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Michael
>>>>
>>>>> Robin Kuzmin
>>>>> kuzmin.robin@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 11:49 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-opages)
>>>>> <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Hello Robin,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 02/13/2018 01:51 AM, Robin Kuzmin wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/waitpid.2.html
>>>>>>> 1.
>>>>>>> I see: "The wait() system call suspends execution of the calling
>>>>>>> process...".
>>>>>>> I expected: "The wait() system call suspends execution of the calling
>>>>>>> thread...".
>>>>>>> 2.
>>>>>>> I see: "The waitpid() system call suspends execution of the calling
>>>>>>> process...".
>>>>>>> I expected: "The waitpid() system call suspends execution of the
>>>>>>> calling thread...".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks. Fixed now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Michael Kerrisk
>>>> Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
>>>> Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Michael Kerrisk
>> Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
>> Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
> 


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