Re: Couple of small issues

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Hello Jukka,

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Two small issues:
>
> 1. At least FreeBSD and NetBSD define ffs(3) in <strings.h>, as
>   mandated/recommended by POSIX.

I'm not sure what you want to say here. Does something need fixing in
ffs(3)? It's not obvious to me.

> 2. In endian(3) there are some historical notes that are incorrect or at
>   least unclear.

Can you elaborate.

> I could probably go and audit rest of the manual pages that contains (often
> outdated or plain wrong) references to the BSDs and other operating systems.

That would be good.

> While reading the changelog, I noticed (an implicit?) trend towards trying
> to limit the documentation to Linux only. I think this is a good idea;
> surely there is enough work to keep the manual pages updated with respect to
> Linux alone.

I'm not sure if I know what the implicit rend is ;-). But, obviously,
the focus is Linux (with some attention to portability).

Thanks,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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