Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
| Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Printed | Page 5 APIs subsection, first paragraph, third line |
There's an extra mdash between interfaces and usually: "... a standard set of interfaces--- ---usually functions--- that one piece of software ..." |
Andrew R Dalton | Dec 28, 2016 |
| Printed | Page 8 C Language Standards section, 3rd paragraph, 2nd line |
The text reads "...release---the first C standard, ISO C98, was ratified in 1998", and the font for "standard, ISO C98," is fixed width. This section is on C++ standards, so I think that it should read: "...release ---the first C++ standard, ISO C++98, was ratified in 1998." To be consistent with the others ISO references, I think "ISO C++98" should be in italics, not fixed width. |
Andrew R Dalton | Dec 28, 2016 |
| Printed | Page 59 3rd paragraph |
POLLER should be POLLERR |
Fabrizio Soppelsa | Feb 18, 2015 |
| Printed | Page 82 'Obtaining the Current Stream Position' section, second example |
The in code sample that includes the signature for fgetpos(), the include reads "stdioh.h" instead of "stdio.h". |
Andrew R Dalton | Dec 29, 2016 |
| Printed | Page 82 Flushing a Stream, 2nd paragraph |
The text describing fflush() reads "If stream is NULL, all open input streams in the process are flushed." Here, "input" should be "output" -- all open output streams are flushed. |
Andrew R. Dalton | Jan 04, 2017 |
| Printed | Page 129 Optimizing I/O Performance, first sentence |
The text reads "665.180bBecause disk I/O..."; strike 665.180b. |
Andrew R Dalton | Dec 30, 2016 |
| Printed | Page 138 Chapter 5 |
Under "The Process ID" |
Julio Isaías | Nov 13, 2015 |
| Printed | Page 138 "The Process ID" section |
In the previous section (Programs, Processes, and Threads) the author differentiates between a program (a binary on disk) and a process (a running programming). Throughout this section, however, he refers to init binaries on disk as processes. I suggest changing "process" to "program". |
Andrew R Dalton | Dec 30, 2016 |
| Printed | Page 156 Event More Waiting Versatility, first sentence |
The text reads "753.400bFor applications..."; strike 753.400b. |
Andrew R Dalton | Jan 01, 2017 |
| Printed | Page 259 Directories, first sentence |
The text reads "528.80bIn Unix, a..."; strike 528.80b. |
Andrew R Dalton | Jan 02, 2017 |
| Page 303 3 |
The statement: |
Karolina Riddle | Sep 28, 2023 | |
| Printed | Page 320 First paragraph, last sentence, last word |
The text reads "...would make more f158.60sense."; strike f158.60. |
Andrew R Dalton | Jan 02, 2017 |
| Printed | Page 325 Frobnicating Bytes, first paragraph after the prototype |
The text reads "...(XORing) each byte with the numberf164.430 42"; strike f164.430. |
Andrew R Dalton | Jan 02, 2017 |
| Printed | Page 353 Advanced Signal Management, first sentence |
The text reads "691.170bThe signal() function that we studied..."; strike 691.170b. |
Andrew R Dalton | Jan 02, 2017 |
| Page 367 Near the bottom, under "tm_sec" |
tm_sec is described as "The number of seconds after the minute. This value normally ranges from 0 to 59, but it can be as high as 61 to indicate up to two leap seconds." |
Keith Thompson | Mar 14, 2017 | |
| Printed | Page 383 Paragraph above "An Advanced Approach to Sleep", second line |
The second sentence in the paragraph reads "Because +nanosleep() is a POSIX...". The word "Because" is in the fixed-width font when it ought not be, and there ought not be a "+" before "nanosleep()". |
Andrew R Dalton | Jan 03, 2017 |
| Page 401 3rd Paragraph |
Change |
Anonymous | Nov 04, 2019 |