Hello all, Recently, the Linux man-pages project received kind permission from the IEEE and The Open Group to distribute the interface specifications from POSIX.1-2013 (also known as POSIX.1-2008 + Technical Corrigendum 1) as a set of manual pages. This allows us to repeat the exercise that was performed in 2004, whereby the POSIX.1-2003 man pages were distributed as man pages for Linux in sections 0p, 1p, and 3p. Thanks to some work by Felix Janda, we now have a set of scripts that convert the source format that we received from IEEE/TOG to the man pages using the "man" macros. Felix has done some excellent work, and I've spent quite some time reviewing the results. However, before definitively releasing these pages, I would like to have further review of the pages, and I am soliciting that review with this mail The main purposes of this review are to: * detect any problems injected by the conversion process (e.g., spurious text added or deleted) * find any formatting issues with the resulting pages. If you are interested to help with reviewing these pages, the amount of time required is up to you: it's simply a question of how many (randomly selected) pages you care to check over. Even checking just a half dozen pages is helpful, so long as you let me know how many pages you checked and whether you found problems or whether everything looked okay. A tarball of the converted pages can be found here: http://man7.org/linux/posix-man-pages/posix-man-pages-130917-draft.tar.gz Once you have unpacked the tarball, individual pages can be read using the command man -l <pagename> If desired you can compare the pages against the HTML versions of the standard online here: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ If you would prefer to compare the converted pages against the PFDF version of the standard, I believe it is possible to register (without cost) at The Open Group website: https://www2.opengroup.org/ogsys/catalog/t101 to obtain a PDF version of the standard. Thank you, 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
