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Subject: docs/17836: manpage for sigaction(2) is wrong
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>Number:         17836
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       manpage for sigaction(2) is wrong
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr  6 18:20:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tim Moore
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Bricoworks
>Environment:

	

>Description:

	The description of the third argument to signal handlers if SA_SIGINFO
is supplied is wrong.  It's a ucontext_t, not an mcontext_t.

>How-To-Repeat:

	

>Fix:

Index: sigaction.2
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/src/lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -c -r1.21 sigaction.2
*** sigaction.2	1999/12/15 16:51:35	1.21
--- sigaction.2	2000/04/06 06:39:20
***************
*** 496,502 ****
  The
  .Fa context
  argument to a POSIX SA_SIGINFO handler points to an instance of
! mcontext_t.
  .Sh ERRORS
  .Fn Sigaction
  will fail and no new signal handler will be installed if one
--- 496,502 ----
  The
  .Fa context
  argument to a POSIX SA_SIGINFO handler points to an instance of
! ucontext_t.
  .Sh ERRORS
  .Fn Sigaction
  will fail and no new signal handler will be installed if one



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