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Issue of the Standard # S0284

Brief

Misprint in the description of the pthread_rwlock_unlock() function.

Detailed Description

There is a misprint in the section ‘DESCRIPTION’ of the description of the function pthread_rwlock_unlock(): the sentence “Results are undefined if any of these functions are called with an uninitialized read-write lock.” says about several functions (“any of these functions”), though this section of the Standard describes only one function.

Problem location(s) in the standard

The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition, System Interfaces, the description of the function <nobr>pthread_rwlock_unlock()</nobr>.

Possible solutions

Change the sentence in the DESCRIPTION from:
“Results are undefined if any of these functions are called with an uninitialized read-write lock”
to:
“Results are undefined if this function is called with an uninitialized read-write lock”.

Accepted

POSIX aardvark,
Request Number 183

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