Bug 54451

Summary: [patch] i386_get_ldt(2): i386_{get|set}_ldt manual page is confusing
Product: Documentation Reporter: Andreas Fuchs <asf>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: ru <ru>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
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Description Andreas Fuchs 2003-07-13 19:30:16 UTC 
The i386_get_ldt (which serves for _set_, too) man page is written
in a confusing and long-winded style, especially regarding the
meaning of the start_ldt parameter.

Fix: I've rewritten the portions which were confusing to me and added
an example section.

I'm not so sure about what to do with the goofy WARNING, as many
other syscalls can also really hose one's processes but don't state
it explicitly. I've left it in in the patch, but my gut feeling
says that is should go (-:

The attached patch is against 
$FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/i386/sys/i386_get_ldt.2,v 1.17 2003/06/09 11:46:22 jhb Exp $


How-To-Repeat: man 2 i386_get_ldt
Comment 1 Tilman Keskinoz freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-05-21 01:39:55 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-doc

doc-bug
Comment 2 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-10-13 21:29:22 UTC 
ru          2006-10-13 20:28:58 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:
    lib/libc/i386/sys    i386_get_ldt.2 
  Log:
  Some word smithing adopted from the PR.
  
  PR:             docs/54451
  Originally by:  Andreas Fuchs
  Adopted by:     jhb
  MFC after:      3 days
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.22      +14 -14    src/lib/libc/i386/sys/i386_get_ldt.2
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Comment 3 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-10-13 21:29:23 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

John adopted your changes, and I've committed this to HEAD.
Comment 4 ru freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-10-13 21:29:23 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->ru
Comment 5 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-10-16 13:31:03 UTC 
ru          2006-10-16 12:30:52 UTC

  FreeBSD src repository

  Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_6)
    lib/libc/i386/sys    i386_get_ldt.2 
  Log:
  MFC: 1.22: Some word smithing.
  
  PR:             docs/54451
  Approved by:    re (hrs)
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.21.8.1  +15 -15    src/lib/libc/i386/sys/i386_get_ldt.2
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