gethostid in wrong manual section

[Dave Gilbert]

gethostid seems to be implemented by glibc not the kernel (ditto for set)
but the manpage is a section 2 manpage.

[Sebastian Rode (sebastian-ro-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Hi,
  This is still in the wrong section (Gutsy).

Dave

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I've forwarded this to the upstream maintainer by e-mail.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Upstream said:

"I suspect this is a historical thing, since in the original BSD docs,
these interfaces were documented in Section 2, although I see FreeBSD
for example now has them in Section 3.

Anyway, I have relocated the page to section 3 as you suggest, and
created some .so link files so that "man 2 [gs]ethostid" will continue
to do the right thing.

(There were also a few other broken pieces in the page -- e.g., no
return value or error description for sethostid() -- that I also fixed
along the way.)

The changes will be in man-pages-3.16."

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

This seems to have got released sometime - it's certainly OK in Maverick (manpages 3.24-1ubuntu1).

Thanks!

Dave

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

Fixed in commit 1f4f66a924e612270bfc0c71ac032c316e12e849 in the man-pages git repo.

[Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig)]

hmm I could swear I told it to go to fix released....