Bug 234988 - Architecture Handbook: Comparison of message vs signal is incorrect
Summary: Architecture Handbook: Comparison of message vs signal is incorrect
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Books & Articles (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Some People
Assignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody)
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Keywords: easy, needs-patch
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Reported: 2019-01-16 02:50 UTC by Ernest Bruce
Modified: 2019-01-16 02:53 UTC (History)
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Description Ernest Bruce 2019-01-16 02:50:09 UTC 
the last sentence of the first paragraph of 4.2.1. SysV IPC says:

  The difference between a message and a signal is that the
  message only consists of the signal number.

i think the corrected sentence could read:

  The difference between a message and a signal is that
  a message contains a message id and a message pointer,
  whereas a signal contains only a signal id.

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/jail-restrictions.html