Subject: kern/4576: sun3/sparc kbd(4) man page lies
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Krister Walfridsson <cato@ulysses.df.lth.se>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/25/1997 20:49:11
>Number: 4576
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: sun3/sparc kbd(4) man page lies
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: kern-bug-people (Kernel Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Nov 25 11:50:02 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Krister Walfridsson
>Organization:
>Release: NetBSD-current 25 Nov 1997
>Environment:
System: NetBSD ulysses 1.3_ALPHA NetBSD 1.3_ALPHA (KWA) #8: Fri Nov 21 22:17:14 CET 1997 cato@ulysses:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/KWA sparc
>Description:
The kbd(4) man page claims that the argument to KIOCSLED and KIOCSLED ioctl
is of type int*, but it is char* in the source.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Apply the following patch to src/share/man/man4/man4.sparc/kbd.4 and
src/share/man/man4/man4.sun3/kbd.4
diff -u kbd.4.bak kbd.4
--- kbd.4.bak Fri Oct 10 01:22:07 1997
+++ kbd.4 Tue Nov 25 20:30:06 1997
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@
Set LED state
.Pq Do type 4 Dc only .
The argument is of type
-.Fa "int *" ,
+.Fa "char *" ,
and is the inclusive OR of the following flags:
.Pp
.Bl -tag -width LED_SCROLL_LOCK -compact
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
Get LED state
.Pq Do type 4 Dc only .
The argument is of type
-.Fa "int *" ,
+.Fa "char *" ,
in which the current LED state is returned.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
>Audit-Trail:
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