From jmg@nike.efn.org Wed Oct 23 21:37:50 1996 Received: from nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA11088 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 21:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by nike.efn.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA01028; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 21:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610240424.VAA01028@nike.efn.org> Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 21:24:35 -0700 (PDT) From: John-Mark Gurney Reply-To: gurney_j@efn.org To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: jmg@nike.efn.org Subject: misspelled word in open(2) man page X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 1874 >Category: docs >Synopsis: automatically misspelled in open(2) man page >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Oct 23 21:40:02 PDT 1996 >Closed-Date: Wed Oct 23 21:57:14 PDT 1996 >Last-Modified: Wed Oct 23 21:58:51 PDT 1996 >Originator: John-Mark Gurney >Release: FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386 >Organization: Cu Networking >Environment: just relative to current >Description: automatically is misspelled in open(2) man page Pointed out by: Jonathan Mini >How-To-Repeat: man 2 open /automati not found but: /atoma is... >Fix: Index: open.2 =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/lib/libc/sys/open.2,v retrieving revision 1.4 diff -c -r1.4 open.2 *** open.2 1996/08/22 23:28:48 1.4 --- open.2 1996/10/24 04:01:12 *************** *** 74,81 **** O_CREAT create file if it does not exist O_TRUNC truncate size to 0 O_EXCL error if create and file exists ! O_SHLOCK atomically obtain a shared lock ! O_EXLOCK atomically obtain an exclusive lock .Ed .Pp Opening a file with --- 74,81 ---- O_CREAT create file if it does not exist O_TRUNC truncate size to 0 O_EXCL error if create and file exists ! O_SHLOCK automatically obtain a shared lock ! O_EXLOCK automatically obtain an exclusive lock .Ed .Pp Opening a file with >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: nate State-Changed-When: Wed Oct 23 21:57:14 PDT 1996 State-Changed-Why: Pilot error. 'Atomically' is the intended word, not 'automatically'. Atomically means that you are guaranteed to have a lock when the function returns (ie; no possibility of race condition). >Unformatted: