docs/121096: Man page tells wrong argument type for time2posix(3), posix2time(3)
Frank W. Josellis
frank at dynamical-systems.org
Mon Feb 25 21:30:01 UTC 2008
>Number: 121096
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Man page tells wrong argument type for time2posix(3), posix2time(3)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Feb 25 21:30:01 UTC 2008
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>Originator: Frank W. Josellis
>Release: FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE i386
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>Environment:
System: FreeBSD pollux.senax.net 5.5-STABLE FreeBSD 5.5-STABLE #21: Fri Feb 15 15:23:21 CET 2008 root at pollux.senax.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POLLUX i386
>Description:
According to the FreeBSD man page the argument for both time2posix(3) and
posix2time(3) is a pointer "const time_t *t". In truth these two functions
require a time_t value, not a pointer.
NetBSD has it correctly, see e.g.
http://man.netbsd.se/?find=time2posix+3+161
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