man 2 write - clarification

Joey Schulze joey at infodrom.org
Thu Mar 18 19:47:39 UTC 2010


Joey Schulze wrote:
> Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The following phrase taken from man 2 write manual page is confusing:
> > > POSIX  requires that a read(2) which can be proved to occur after a
> > > write() has returned returns the new data.
> > >
> > > I think you should you some comas to make a clear statement.
> > > POSIX  requires that a read(2), which can be proved to occur after a
> > > write() has returned, returns the new data.
> > 
> > I think this should be reported upstream directly.
> 
> I have forwarded Daniel's suggestion already.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574041

It might be a good idea to add a link to this discussion on
-devel-discuss to the bug report at 574041 (at) bugs.debian.org

Regards,

	Joey

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