Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 14:59:48 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/3047: Ambiguous wording in sigaction.2 Message-ID: <199703202259.OAA01991@fenestro.parc.xerox.com> Resent-Message-ID: <199703202310.PAA05025@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 3047
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Ambiguous wording in sigaction.2
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Mar 20 15:10:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Bill Fenner
>Organization:
Xerox
>Release: FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A i386
>Environment:
FreeBSD -current and 2.2
>Description:
The sigaction(2) man page has the following wording:
NOTE
The mask specified in act is not allowed to block SIGKILL or SIGSTOP.
This is done silently by the system.
The word "This" is ambiguous. My first reading was "blocking SIGKILL [and]
SIGSTOP is done silently by the system".
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Change the last sentence to something like "This restriction is
silently enforced." or "Attempts to block SIGKILL or SIGSTOP will be
silently ignored."
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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