Suka, On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Michael, > > Following is some text that would need to be added to devpts section of > mount(8) man page (its not a formal patch, just the text to be added). > I am looking for logistics and a general review of the text to be added. The mount(8) page is not part of the man-pages set. Take a look here: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/man_pages_other.html > The relevant kernel patches are currently in ttydev/linux-next trees. > I can send the formal man page patch after those patches go into mainline. Though mount(8) is not on my set, I wonder if there is any text that should perhaps be added to pts(4) or pty(7). http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man4/pts.4.html http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/pty.7.html Take a look at those and let me know. > Also, is it ok to refer to 'Documentation' directory in the man page - > there are several semantics outlined in Documentation/filesystem/devpts.txt > (http://www.linux.org.uk/~alan/ttydev/pty-multiple-doc), that may be of > use only to users of containers. Certainly as far as I'm concerned doing this is okay in the pages in man-pages -- you just need to say "the kernel source file Documentation/..." Cheers, Michael -- 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
