Re: alphabetic index feedback

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On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Jon Grant <jg@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just looking at this page:
>
> http://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/online/dir_all_alphabetic.html
>
>
> I propose to clarify a few entries:
> "accept4(2) - accept a connection on a socket"
>
> Changed to:
> "accept4(2) - accept a connection on a socket with flags"

The reason that the title is what it is is that "accept4" and "accept"
are on a single man page.

> current:
>    acos(3) - arc cosine function
>    acosf(3) - arc cosine function
>
> Propose to change to:
>    acos(3) - double precision arc cosine function
>    acosf(3) - float precision arc cosine function
>    acosl(3) - long double precision arc cosine function

See above.

> ^ Note, the last one is missing from current alphabetic index currently.

At least now, that no longer appears to be a problem:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_all_alphabetic.html

> There are other similar variations in function returns, float, double, so
> could be good to update those as well.
>
>
> " aio_init(3) - POSIX asynchronous I/O initialization"

I've just fixed that now.

Cheers,

Michael


> All the other aio functions don't mention "POSIX", so thinking of
> consistency, could be removed from this one. Or perhaps added to all the
> others.
>
> Best regards, Jon



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Michael Kerrisk
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Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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