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Bug 12098 bugme-daemon-590EEB7GvNiWaY/[email protected] 1 participant 2 messages Nov 25, 2008 1 message not in the archive Man-pages: manual pages for Linux -- Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7

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Summary: various man pages give incorrect _XOPEN_SOURCE define
Product: Documentation
Version: unspecified
KernelVersion: N/A
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: man-pages
AssignedTo: documentation_man-pages-ztI5WcYan/[email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]

Latest working kernel version: N/A
Earliest failing kernel version: N/A
Distribution: Ubuntu 9.04
Hardware Environment: N/A
Software Environment: man-pages 3.13
Problem Description: Forwarded from Ubuntu #181673
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/manpages/+bug/181673). Steve Bellovin reports that "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE" is incorrectly given for various man pages (e.g., bsd_signal, confstr, crypt, encrypt, getdate, grantpt, ptsname, strptime, swab, unlockpt, wcwidth) instead of "#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 600".

Steps to reproduce: Inspect the man page for any of above given examples.

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[Bug 12098] various man pages give incorrect _XOPEN_SOURCE define

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12098

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------- Comment #1 from [email protected] 2008-11-25 06:22 ------- AFAICT, the original reporter is confused in his understanding of the standard.

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