Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:40:26 GMT From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: docs/72375: prototype error in signal(3) Message-ID: <200410061140.i96BeQbZ043011@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/72375; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/72375: prototype error in signal(3)
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 14:36:36 +0300
On 2004-10-06 16:53, Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> wrote:
> Suggested fix.
>
> .\" The following is Quite Ugly, but syntactically correct.
> .\" Don't try to
> .\" fix it.
> -.Ft void \*(lp*
> +.Ft void \*(lp*\*(rp
> .Fn signal "int sig" "void \*(lp*func\*(rp\*(lpint\*(rp\*(rp\*(rp\*(lpint"
Err, please no. The type of the return value of signal() is not really
`void (*)' but something more like:
void (*)(int)
But this is not so easy to separate from the name of the signal()
function without a typedef; at least not without breaking the validity
of the C declaration, which is a bad thing since then manpage readers
cannot copy/paste the prototype of signal() from its manpage.
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