From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3757 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Isaac Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: status of POSIX man pages? (was: [musl] Request for volunteers) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:20:25 -0700 Message-ID: <20130726192025.GC30662@newbook> References: <20130701174411.GA1631@gauss> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374866456 23067 80.91.229.3 (26 Jul 2013 19:20:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:20:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Original-X-From: musl-return-3761-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Jul 26 21:21:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V2nZC-0007JS-GH for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:20:42 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 32565 invoked by uid 550); 26 Jul 2013 19:20:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 32557 invoked from network); 26 Jul 2013 19:20:41 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=lavabit; d=lavabit.com; b=hytehe6nXfH/2nydHMSOcbfyBWHD7dkDfEJFLqIGtuNEq/oUYdbJCAbeceifM/B3w+ZemTnOP0QyikJj6BFUlqZCh3LBLXU42rVWvvrDT114lPN3Jld7GkV0c3lMcP07YfgJ9c0s/Ff5SgfSDxFm2SxDooQQGpAuZZSt32e7bCI=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To:User-Agent; Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3757 Archived-At: On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 03:08:52AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Gidday, > > On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Felix Janda wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Rich Felker wrote: > >> > >What might be better for the near future is to get the POSIX man pages > >> > >project updated to match POSIX-2008+TC1 so that users of musl who want > >> > >man pages for libc functions can install them and have them match the > >> > >current version. > >> > > >> > I note that the guy who did the posix man pages ten years ago was: > >> > Michael Kerrisk. > > (To be more precise, it was Andries Brouwer, the previous maintainer, > who carried out the task shortly before I took over.) > > > He has interest in creating new posix man pages for the SUSV4 TC1. The status > > from beginning of June was that he had contacted The Open Group asking for > > permission. Possibly, we might get troff sources. > > As of a few days ago, the necessary permissions are granted. I do not > yet have the source files (and so am unsure of the source format), but > I expect that they will become available to us in the next couple of > weeks. I'm curious what the status of this is. Do you have the sources yet? (BTW, if you haven't got them yet, I noticed these: http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=694 http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=715 and a few others that refer to use of groff with the mm macros.) > -- > Michael Kerrisk > Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ > Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/