Michael Kerrisk wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Michael Kerrisk > <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Martin Schulze <joey@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Michael Kerrisk wrote: > >>> Hi Joey, > >>> > >>> I see that Debian downstream has a networks(5) page (below) that you > >>> wrote some years back (before my time as maintainer). It seems > >>> to me that it might make sense to take this page upstream. > >>> What do you think? > >> > >> Great! I'd appreciate this! > > > > And your thoughts on this piece? > > > > [[ > > PS The FreeBSD networks(5) page has some details not in your page > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=networks&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE&format=html > > Perhaps some of those details might also be usefully > > covered in your page? > > ]] I'd appreciate if you could merge both contents. I'm happy if manpages contain comprehensive information about the subjects they ought to describe. > After reviewing the FreeBSD page, and doing a little testing, I > made a few edits to the Debian downstream networks(5) page > and have included it for man-pages-3.09. > > Could you please review the diff below? The most notable > change is the substitution of "dotted-decimal" by "numbers-and-dots" > notation, since getnetent(3) etc. do indeed accept that more > general form, according to my tests. Yes, that's fine with me. I'm sorry that I had postponed the response and only remembered it yesterday night again. Thankfully, it didn't stall the process and you were able to continue work nevertheless. Regards, Joey -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
