Bug Fix Advisory man-pages bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2009:0023-2
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2009-05-18
Last updated on: 2009-05-18
Affected Products: Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated man-pages package that corrects and changes several man pages is
now available.

The man-pages package provides man (manual) pages from the Linux
Documentation Project.

This updated man-pages package makes the following changes to man pages
documentation:

* the connect(2) man page included a description of the EAGAIN error where
documentation of the EADDRNOTAVAIL should have appeared. With this updated
package the erroneous notes were removed and documentation regarding
EADDRNOTAVAIL was added.

* glibc does not provide a wrapper for the gettid system call. The
gettid(2) man page did not note this. It now does.

* hook variables are not thread-safe and, consequently, have been
deprecated. The malloc_hook(3) man page now documents this and adds a note
regarding alternative options.

* the time(1) man page incorrectly stated timing statistics were written to
standard ouput (std out). This information is actually sent to standard
error (std err). The man page has been corrected to document the actual
behavior of the time command.

Users are advised to upgrade to this updated man-pages package, which make
the above-noted corrections and changes.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Updated packages

Red Hat Desktop (v. 4)

SRPMS:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.src.rpm     509acfa49e67728fcb10a7abddfa6537
 
IA-32:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
x86_64:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.src.rpm     509acfa49e67728fcb10a7abddfa6537
 
IA-32:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
IA-64:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
PPC:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
s390:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
s390x:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
x86_64:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (v. 4)

SRPMS:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.src.rpm     509acfa49e67728fcb10a7abddfa6537
 
IA-32:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
IA-64:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
x86_64:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS (v. 4)

SRPMS:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.src.rpm     509acfa49e67728fcb10a7abddfa6537
 
IA-32:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
IA-64:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
x86_64:
man-pages-1.67-17.el4.noarch.rpm     a5fde959f22245afc61644ca9e5b685d
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

392431 - Incorrect error description for non-existent interfaces in connect(2)
469675 - time(1) man page bug


Keywords

connect, gettid, malloc_hook, man-pages, time


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