Debian Bug report logs - #574370
manpages-dev: select(2) sets cannot become undefined

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: manpages-dev: select(2) sets cannot become undefined

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:51:07 +0100

Package: manpages-dev
Version: 3.22-1
Severity: normal


The select(2) manoage says, under RETURN VALUE:

   On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately; the sets and
   timeout become undefined, so do not rely on their contents after an
   error.

However, this is neither the (current?) behaviour on Debian, nor does it
comply to POSIX (which requires the sets to be unmodified).

Since behaviour matches POSIX, and this would make select(2) non-posix
compliant, I suspect that the manpage is simply wrong.

A POSIX-correct wording would be:

   On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately; the timeout
   becomes undefined and the sets stay non-modified.

(In fact, I think glibc copies the timeout on purpose, so the timeout
would also be non-modified).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages manpages-dev depends on:
hi  manpages                      3.22-1     Manual pages about using a GNU/Lin

manpages-dev recommends no packages.

Versions of packages manpages-dev suggests:
ii  konqueror [man-browser] 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 KDE's advanced file manager, web b
ii  man-db [man-browser]    2.5.6-5          on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information

Message #12 received at 574370@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

To: Marc Lehmann <debian-reportbug@plan9.de>, 574370@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#574370: manpages-dev: select(2) sets cannot become undefined

Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:26:09 +0100

tags 574370 fixed-upstream
thanks

I've made the text:

       On error, -1 is returned,
       and errno is set to indicate the  error;  the  file  descriptor
       sets are unmodified, and timeout becomes undefined.

Thanks for the report.

Message #19 received at 574370-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>

To: 574370-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#574370: fixed in manpages 3.57-1

Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:50:24 +0000

Source: manpages
Source-Version: 3.57-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
manpages, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 574370@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org> (supplier of updated manpages package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 22:04:08 +0100
Source: manpages
Binary: manpages manpages-dev
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.57-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
Changed-By: Simon Paillard <spaillard@debian.org>
Description: 
 manpages   - Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system
 manpages-dev - Manual pages about using GNU/Linux for development
Closes: 574370 638186 735590
Changes: 
 manpages (3.57-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Imported Upstream version 3.57
     . select.2: RETURN VALUE: Fix discussion of treatment of file descriptor
       (Closes: #574370)
     . environ.7: Correct reference to locale(7) (not locale(5))
       (Closes: #638186)
     . filesystems.5: Add reference to proc(5) for more details on
       /proc/filesystems (Closes: #735590)
   * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5
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