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Date:      Sun, 25 Jul 1999 17:34:36 -0400
From:      veers@disturbed.net
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   docs/12810: sendfile(2) manual page error
Message-ID:  <19990725213442Z61470-3498%2B80@disturbed.net>

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>Number:         12810
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       sendfile(2) manual page has erronous history information
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 25 14:40:00 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Alex Perel
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:

FreeBSD mirage.disturbed.net 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Jul 25 16:56:17 EDT 1999     root@mirage.disturbed.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/MIRAGE  i386

>Description:

sendfile(2) claims that the system call first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.1, when 
in fact it was present in FreeBSD 3.0.

>How-To-Repeat:

man 2 sendfile

>Fix:
	
--- lib/libc/sys/sendfile.2.orig	Sun Jul 25 17:10:45 1999
+++ lib/libc/sys/sendfile.2	Sun Jul 25 17:23:24 1999
@@ -144,8 +144,9 @@
 .Xr send 2 ,
 .Xr writev 2
 .Sh HISTORY
-.Fn sendfile
-first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0.1.
+The 
+.Fn sendfile 
+system call first appeared in FreeBSD 3.0. This manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 3.1.
 .Sh AUTHORS
 .Fn sendfile
 and this manual page were written by David Greenman <dg@root.com>.



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