Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Feb 2006 23:59:25 +0100 (MET) | From | "Michael Kerrisk" <> | Subject | Re: man-pages-2.22 is released |
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> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- > Von: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> > An: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> > Kopie: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael.kerrisk@gmx.net > Betreff: Re: man-pages-2.22 is released > Datum: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 14:51:36 -0800 > > On Monday, February 6, 2006 11:59 am, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > This is a request to kernel developers: if you make a change > > to a kernel-userland interface, or observe a discrepancy > > between the manual pages and reality, would you please send > > me (at mtk-manpages@gmx.net ) one of the following > > (in decreasing order of preference): > > Wouldn't it be easier for you to keep them up to date if sections 2, 4, > and parts of 5 were included in the kernel source tree? Documentation > updates could be enforced as part of the patch process--all you'd have > to do is NAK patches that modified userland interfaces if they didn't > contain documentation updates (and I'm sure others would help you with > that task).
Life is not so simple, as I think we discussed when you made a similar comment after my man-pages-2.08 release. Maybe the system can be improved still. Currently Andrew Morton is being rather good about CCing me on patches that are likely to need man-pages changes. (Thanks Andrew!)
> Likewise with the glibc stuff. Doesn't it belong with the glibc project? > Wouldn't that make more sense, both from a packaging and maintenance > perspective?
Not really -- glibc has a differnt philosophy about documentation (less focus on historical information and less comparison with other Unix systems, as far as I can see), and uses info(1), not man(1).
> Either way, thanks a lot for keeping the pages in good shape, it's much > appreciated.
You're welcome. Several people help. More help is always welcome.
Cheers,
Michael
-- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7
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