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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page 124

"shm_descr=shm_open(SHM_AREA_NAME, O_RDWR);"

should read

"shm_descr=shm_open(SHM_AREA_NAME, O_RDWR, S_IRWXU);"

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 293
<sched.h> manpage, code sample at the bottom of the

page: line 1

struct sched_params {

changed to

struct sched_param {

 Anonymous  Jun 1998
Printed Page 309
<time.h> manpage, code sample in the middle of the page

lines 2 and 3

int clock_gettime(clockid_t, const struct timespec *);
int clock_settime(clockid_t, struct timespec *);

should be

int clock_gettime(clockid_t, struct timespec *);
int clock_settime(clockid_t, const struct timespec *);

 Anonymous  Jun 1998
Printed Page 472
third paragraph

"If new_setting->it_value is 0..."

should read

"If new_setting->it_value is set to 0 seconds and 0 nanoseconds".

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 549
About the Author, 3rd paragraph, last line: changed author's

email address from
b0g@netcom.com
to
bog@fvc.com

 Anonymous  Jun 1998