docs/94938: [queue(3)] Manual page mentions five data structures instead of four

Ed Schouten ed at fxq.nl
Sat Mar 25 22:40:13 UTC 2006


>Number:         94938
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [queue(3)] Manual page mentions five data structures instead of four
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 25 22:40:12 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ed Schouten
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD zonk.fxq.nl 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Mar 23 21:25:08 CET 2006 root at zonk.fxq.nl:/usr/obj/export/src/sys/ZONK i386

>Description:
The queue(3) manpage mentions the following sentence:

"These macros define and operate on four types of data structures:"

One paragraph later:

"Singly-linked lists are the simplest of the five data structures and
support only the above functionality."

>How-To-Repeat:
Run `man 3 queue`.

>Fix:
%%%
--- src/share/man/man3/queue.3     Wed Mar 22 18:23:44 2006
+++ src/share/man/man3/queue.3     Sat Mar 25 23:29:56 2006
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
 Forward traversal through the list.
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-Singly-linked lists are the simplest of the five data structures
+Singly-linked lists are the simplest of the four data structures
 and support only the above functionality.
 Singly-linked lists are ideal for applications with large datasets
 and few or no removals,
%%%
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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