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[Bug manual/13938] New: Possible typo in GNU C Library Reference Manual Edition 0.13


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13938

             Bug #: 13938
           Summary: Possible typo in GNU C Library Reference Manual
                    Edition 0.13
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.14
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: manual
        AssignedTo: unassigned@sourceware.org
        ReportedBy: jamesr@juniper.net
                CC: roland@gnu.org
    Classification: Unclassified


As shown in the email exchange below with an early author,
there is some garbled text in a particular portion of 
"The GNU C Library Reference Manual".


Re: Possible typo in GNU C Library Reference Manual Edition 0.13
From: Sandra Loosemore [sandra@codesourcery.com]
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 6:08 PM
To: James Rodriguez [jamesr@juniper.net]

On 03/30/2012 06:29 PM, James Rodriguez wrote:
>
> Sandra Loosemore at sandra@codesourcery.com:
>
> I would like to try to report a possible typo in this doc:
>
> The GNU C Library Reference Manual
> by Sandra Loosemore
> Edition 0.13 last updated 2011-07-19 for version 2.14
>
> Downloaded from this URL:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/pdf/libc.pdf
>
> Numbered Page 583 (doc sequential page 606)
>
> Subsection:
> 23.4 Complete Context Control
>
> First sentence:
> The Unix standard one more set of function to control the execution path and
> these functions are more powerful than those discussed in this chapter so far.
>
>
> There appears to be something garbled in that sentence.
> I cannot parse it.  Can you fix it or explain this verbiage?


Ummm.  I wrote the manual in 1991 and haven't been active in maintaining
it since that time.  Even if I remembered what I was thinking 20+ years
ago, this section of text was added by someone else at some later date.  ;-)

I suspect this sentence ought to read

The System V Unix standard provides one more set of functions....

You might want to file a bug report in the appropriate place.  See

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html

-Sandra

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