On Tuesday 18 September 2007 2:32:19 pm Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Rob, > > >>> 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 out of date.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. > > Okay. But you might also find that the basics of troff aren't too complex. > (Have a look at man-pages.7, and the SEE ALSO refs it has.) Back before Bruce ****** Perens made working on busybox intolerable, I had about half of a script written to generate the busybox manpage directly, without using the perl pod thing. That said, I spent several sessions over the past few years helping Eric Raymond debug doclifter, and I note that currently about 6% of the man-pages don't convert properly with doclifter due to some error or other that throws it. > > 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. > > Okay, that would be good. It's worked its way up to about #5 on my todo list... > Cheers, > > Michael Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
