2017-08-09 3:27 GMT+08:00 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Hi, > > On 08/07/2017 06:42 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On 08/07/2017 09:31 AM, Yubin Ruan wrote: > >> Hi, I am wondering whether there is any progress for NPTL. In page[1] > >> I see lots of pthread-related pages are missing. Pretty shocked by > >> that. > >> > >> Are there any plan for that? Who is the maintainer of NPTL? Why are > >> such an important lib missing manual pages? > > Because no-one wrote all of them yet. I know it's not what you > hope to hear, but contributions are welcome. > > Note, by the way, that the Linux man-pages project sits outside of > the glibc project. The documentation for that project is the > glibc manual, but many things also are not documented there. > > Also, there are the POSIX man pages, which are distributed by the > Linux man-pages project. These are extracts from POSIX, and document > (the standard behavior) of all of the pthreads functions that are in > POSIX. Installing those pages may give you some of what you want. > > >> [1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/missing_pages.html > > > > [adding Michael Kerrisk] > > > > Wikipedia says: > > {in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_POSIX_Thread_Library} > > > > "NPTL has been part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux since version 3, and > > in the Linux kernel since version 2.6. It is now a fully integrated > > part of the GNU C Library.[2]" > > > > so I would expect the documentation to be part of that library. Hi, I can write some of them, although I cannot guarantee when I can finish that. If anyone is doing this already or have any suggestions please let me know. Not sure whether I am qualified for that, but I would like to try. I am going to port some pages from the POSIX thread standard docs, testing every features and modify the docs correspondingly. Yubin -- 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
