Re: How's linux-doc going?

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On Friday 14 September 2007 6:00:31 am Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > I didn't even know "man 2 syscalls" existed until last week.
>
> Actually until 2.63, syscalls(2) looked quite different,
> in particular it didn't have a table of all (well
> most) syscalls.

Yay progress. :)

> > man 2 syscall and not getting an index. :)  There isn't a man page for
> > ioctls
>
> There *is* an ioctl_list.2 man page, but it is quite
> out of date.  It would certainly be wonderful to bring that
> page closer to up to date (but if you decide to attack that,
> let's talk about some details first).

I'm unlikely to send in edits to man pages because I don't speak troff.  
(There's a reason I poke at doclifter...)  I can send you text, though.

I now have three major potential sources of ioctl info (and a couple of minor 
ones).  I need to read and collate the existing docs before worrying about 
the holes, and I'm unlikely to get to it this week.  Maybe next.

> Cheers,
>
> Michael

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.
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