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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: SIGSYS documented badly
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>Number:         686
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       SIGSYS documented badly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Aug 14 13:00:01 PDT 1995
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jan 22 04:31:28 PST 1996
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jan 22 04:33:17 PST 1996
>Originator:     Garrett Wollman
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development i386
>Organization:
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
>Environment:

	Any.

>Description:

	In several locations, the SIGSYS signal is erroneously described
	thusly:

     SIGSYS          create core image       system call given invalid
                                             argument

	Of course, this isn't true; what SIGSYS really means is that you
	tried to call an unimplemented system call (which I guess could be
	written as `syscall() given invalid argument', but shouldn't).

>How-To-Repeat:

	man 2 signal

>Fix:
	
	Re-write the description
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: mpp 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 22 04:31:28 PST 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
The various man pages that document SIGSYS and signal.h were 
updated with a better description of what that signal means. 
>Unformatted:
Garrett A. Wollman
