From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3535 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Request for volunteers Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 03:08:52 +0200 Message-ID: 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=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372727562 11931 80.91.229.3 (2 Jul 2013 01:12:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 01:12:42 +0000 (UTC) To: 20130701034317.GW29800@brightrain.aerifal.cx, musl@lists.openwall.com, Rich Felker , Michael Kerrisk Original-X-From: musl-return-3539-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Jul 02 03:12:44 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 1Utp97-0001s2-V5 for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Jul 2013 03:12:42 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3255 invoked by uid 550); 2 Jul 2013 01:12:41 -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 32329 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2013 01:09:25 -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:content-type; bh=u23V2U+1A1p0NpcdisVl/6OPWEvgTtN32CDK9hfXi1Y=; b=RYcSWfgh15l5PWh1GQu3VlKT7t/q47shAnQ2t6Kr7s0zSZIFo2FCb5LGvETS3JRkZ4 pMUuLjstYfRjYfrBs3WuvPJ8R5eWFPg84kE3RpyBWjOqYcdarnyz8dOVB37eweVc+Lhj PU6+NpDzIrBv5opEjMOoLWIfuR1YRh+yXM/lBpEIySYRH1QRdf+ZZwvO6Sgo8uQ+yUBY RqIOjoUTbSskVCBz4nTEm2JdzQwhAPC1q19Jz/0J0/9BgD98pVhVAFWykfEcZ2St4E69 hv4h/X7Ou5CJlkTNiWQ+4Az2Mw1QCKTEaHbuUoR0Kz5ey2/SYaD/GLVn2f8I7FC4wQXC vwiQ== X-Received: by 10.68.50.69 with SMTP id a5mr26583596pbo.122.1372727352989; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 18:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Reply-To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20130701174411.GA1631@gauss> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3535 Archived-At: 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.) >> 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. > (He also told me that the conversion for the previous posix man pages were done > before he had become their maintainer.) > > I CC'ed him so that he knows about this discussion. Thank you, Felix. 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/