Bug#460637: glibc-doc: Manual pages are outdated for NPTL
Package: glibc-doc
Version: 2.7-6
Severity: normal
The man pages are LinuxThreads-specific, even though the default
implementation of pthreads is NPTL nowadays. Some library calls such as
pthread_mutexattr_setpshared are missing, and some of the limitations
(such as using inter-process mutex locking), options and other
peculiarities also differ.
Unfortunately I think that the docs are outdated upstream as well
(including the info pages in glibc-doc-reference), but nevertheless this
is a drawback for development and thus constitutes a reason to have a
bug filed. Maybe adding a few lines on top of each man page already
avoids some of the misleading information.
Usually I wouldn't choose severity normal for man pages, but this page
doesn't really contain anything else. Feel free to readjust :)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
-- no debconf information
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