Hi, On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] >> Ages ago I >> stole the info from their resolver.3 page and merged it with the page >> distributed with glibc (the current version is taken from there as >> well, IIRC). The patch got somehow lost through the cracks, I think... >> >> Or do you see any licensing issues with doing that? > > libbind's manpages are permissively (ISC) licensed and so pretty much > hassle-free to reuse. Could you send a link or other pointer (e.g., > message-id) to your patch? That was before there was a linux-man mailing list; I still have Michael's replies, but apparently I don't the one I sent. I will check my home computer, maybe I have a copy of it there. I'll get back with a reply if I manage to find it. On re-reading Michael's replies, I see there was a problem with the format of the man pages - the one from libbind is using mdoc, while the one in man-pages uses the newer man(7) format. Just a heads up. > >> OTOH, if you want to keep your approach and add another page for the >> reentrant functions, you might want to add a pointer in resolver.3 so >> people know there's another page as well :). > > I snuck in a link in the SEE ALSO section. If you have ideas for > where to broach the subject elsewhere (maybe in the paragraph > discussing _res?), I'd be happy to take them. :) Maybe at the beginning you could say that the man page documents only the non-reentrant functions? OTOH, as far as I can make of the old email exchange, the current man page is based on what BIND 4.9.something was shipping, probably before anybody started thinking about multithreading :). > > Thanks for looking it over. > Jonathan > -- 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
