From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3559 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Linux manpages (was Re: [musl] Request for volunteers) Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 00:12:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20130701174411.GA1631@gauss> <20130706215227.GC26987@newbook> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373148770 21640 80.91.229.3 (6 Jul 2013 22:12:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2013 22:12:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com To: Isaac Original-X-From: musl-return-3563-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Jul 07 00:12:52 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 1Uvaim-0007Ng-ME for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:12:48 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 20037 invoked by uid 550); 6 Jul 2013 22:12:48 -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 20026 invoked from network); 6 Jul 2013 22:12:47 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=Ps1iWwVUwRlZ4jcjKPukH6/rc85zHyBw4eNjinFA7uc=; b=f84A5f4GiRNIynmTVcVUfkPnRMGuwNSHHV/xUjzJfk8IqGMsgIRbRVwOzWc8hEYtUd UZ1BhlqmnM1oiLZZKx9+LbeoPLXN5Gb8ox4DhmAYeFbB/YPhVUL9ed3KRiUnSjhvWS2w JyYHR8bZDSNkgHHxIfqfnNom52K4Fl/Xq4uoeUG8Ns/7rvOjMlXoGPsMRm0OGYJnSijS U5ayZde8gCWuDd2zgEBu3tMyFAJ/w4LKYtZELKFaYdlWSXoUX4U4wTEJQQP8ZjOiPdnH 7FQdHfqhLzsPZVe8P72Y0yOu2/XBJb3SqFzjs97NPlstU5ugGfBZRiLhtvGc3nTwsOYz SSIA== X-Received: by 10.66.122.67 with SMTP id lq3mr16818062pab.147.1373148755326; Sat, 06 Jul 2013 15:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Original-Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20130706215227.GC26987@newbook> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3559 Archived-At: Hello Isaac, On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Isaac wrote: > Hello, > 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: > >> >> Maybe someone should contact him about all the stuff we're discussing. >> > >> > I asked him some time ago about the posix man pages and offered help with the >> > conversion. >> > >> > 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. > > On a slightly related note, would you be interested in patches for the > Linux manpages briefly documenting places where musl differs from glibc > (in the NOTES section, along the same lines as the notes about libc4/libc5)? Historically, man-pages has primarily documented glibc + syscalls, but there's nothing firm about that. It's more been about limited time resources and the fact that glibc is the most widely used libc. I'd have no objection to musl-specific notes in the man-pages. Perhaps a patch to libc(7) would be a good place to start. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/