From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3531 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Caudill Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Request for volunteers Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 12:46:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20130630055202.GA16580@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20130630121345.GR29800@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <30842.50.0.229.56.1372631354.squirrel@lavabit.com> <20130701033113.GV29800@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20130701174244.GB3727@newbook> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7bdc87be63414d04e076d0e7 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372700826 6801 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2013 17:47:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 17:47:06 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3535-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Jul 01 19:47:07 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 1UtiBu-000592-If for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:47:06 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 11280 invoked by uid 550); 1 Jul 2013 17:47:05 -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 11272 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2013 17:47:05 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=Dvi9ii/UBp17K1j4sMjz6pVrgcocFkMAWAbQJaTemJw=; b=tM6m3nprdktcE3w1cJXgRrJ8Pp5wHCmpRvx1xzPDkUEX6gkt5IQIqscFo8vrj93qgW 1gBL+T8hUffwIcqr27/APJx25iZtEFSSd1LoSt7VQoE/goVr/jYciTU6ZaRuYSXL8J2V jFKJrqnWSkF8VpOcSVVRyJGwin7wMkVqmHG7Npxlx8mJsOBp+BdOSlgiiLLan+npGpmM mMvIFbTQ6oeP2L6wjzcY7UHQ8eAbUJrTx7LwqlSxd8cUZ/zmCHpqm3RbWj1+MbA3WbM9 GgMMJuju5n6doHdoNLUGOc0EZrEU9V7K+qSqoWtyV401WrUhZRhPiX2l2xJ9/Z/D4fFV 3rUg== X-Received: by 10.58.230.135 with SMTP id sy7mr10182456vec.42.1372700813768; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 10:46:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130701174244.GB3727@newbook> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3531 Archived-At: --047d7bdc87be63414d04e076d0e7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I don't have a ton of free time but I'd be happy to help manage wiki content and maybe help out a bit with build system testing. If anyone wants to delegate some tasks in these areas, feel free to mail me directly. Thanks! On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Isaac wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:31:13PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 03:29:14PM -0700, idunham@lavabit.com 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 > > > > > > I seem to recall running across the request for this; IIRC, the > > > maintainer said he'd wait until TOG uploaded an nroff tarball for > > > POSIX2008. > > > > This sounds unlikely. My understanding was that the people who > > released the "3p" man pages generated them from the published POSIX > > spec (Issue 6) with the blessing of the Open Group to license them > > acceptably for distribution. I don't think the Open Group gave them > > nroff files though... > > OK, it was the Debian maintainer, and I'm not sure exactly > what he meant: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622918 > > I think it should be simple to convert the text to a man page once it's > in plain text format, and plan to write a shell script to do that for > my own use shortly; I could provide the script to others, though I'm > not sure about distributing the output myself. > > Isaac Dunham > > --047d7bdc87be63414d04e076d0e7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I don't have a ton of free time but I'd be happy t= o help manage wiki content and maybe help out a bit with build system testi= ng.

If anyone wants to delegate some tasks in thes= e areas, feel free to mail me directly.

Thanks!


On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Isaa= c <idunham@lavabit.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11= :31:13PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 03:29:14PM -0700, idunham@lavabit.com 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 mus= l who want
> >
> > I seem to recall running across the request for this; IIRC, the > > maintainer said he'd wait until TOG uploaded an nroff tarball= for
> > POSIX2008.
>
> This sounds unlikely. My understanding was that the people who
> released the "3p" man pages generated them from the publishe= d POSIX
> spec (Issue 6) with the blessing of the Open Group to license them
> acceptably for distribution. I don't think the Open Group gave the= m
> nroff files though...

OK, it was the Debian maintainer, and I'm not sure exactly
what he meant:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D622918<= br>
I think it should be simple to convert the text to a man page once it's=
in plain text format, and plan to write a shell script to do that for
my own use shortly; I could provide the script to others, though I'm not sure about distributing the output myself.

Isaac Dunham


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