docs/130413: [patch] timer_create(2): incorrect structure member name

Mon Jan 12 11:10:25 UTC 2009

>Number:         130413
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [patch] timer_create(2): incorrect structure member name
>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:   Mon Jan 12 11:10:00 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Thomas Mueller
>Release:        7.1-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD tom.ulm.sysgo.com 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #1: Thu Jan  8 17:21:04 CET 2009     toor at tom.ulm.sysgo.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

>Description:
The manual page for timer_create(2) incorrectly refers to a structure member 'sigev_sigev_notify' in the sigevent structure.
The name should be 'sigev_notify' instead.
>How-To-Repeat:
man timer_create
>Fix:
Index: timer_create.2
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/home/tmu/repos/FreeBSD/repo/src/lib/libc/sys/timer_create.2,v
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -u -p -r1.9 timer_create.2

--- timer_create.2      18 Jun 2007 01:50:03 -0000      1.9
+++ timer_create.2      12 Jan 2009 11:01:57 -0000
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ or
 .Dv CLOCK_MONOTONIC .
 .Pp
 If
-.Fa evp->sigev_sigev_notify
+.Fa evp->sigev_notify
 is
 .Dv SIGEV_THREAD
 and


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