Am Mittwoch, den 23.04.2014, 12:12 +0200 schrieb Michael Kerrisk (man-pages): > On 04/23/2014 10:51 AM, Carsten Andrich wrote: > [...] > > PS: This is not me volunteering to help in that effort. At least not > > yet ;) > > Any way that I could convince you? :-} Some of the API corners in > man pages are so dark, dusty, and deep that I just don't have time > to get up to speed on the topic in order to fix the pages, and > it's really helpful to have someone pick up the reigns on a > particular topic. In that sense, Vince Weaver (perf_event_open.2) > and Denys Vlasenko (ptrace.2) have been lifesavers. I consider man-pages an incredibly important effort, since they've been very helpful for me on numerous occasions, and I'd generally be willing to support that effort. > packet.7 is another one of those dusty corners. I can't see > myself ever getting the time to make it better, since there's a > lot of base knowledge that I lack, and there are so many other > tasks in need of attention. Andi Kleen made a good effort in > putting the page together 15 years ago, but since then it has > mostly languished, short of real love, except for a couple of > patches in the last 18 months (from Daniel/Willem, and Neil Horman). > How would you like to become the maintainer of a man page :-). You must be in dire need of assistance, if you ask me that, despite knowing so little about me :) Unfortunately my experience with Linux packet sockets is very limited. I messed with them a few times, but only really started using SOCK_RAW packet sockets (including PACKET_MMAP) a few weeks ago (as a part of my Bachelor's thesis). I haven't looked at the linux (networking) code before Monday, when I tried to figure out if either packet.7 or I was wrong regarding PACKET_LOSS. And I've never even touched SOCK_DGRAM. All this doesn't exactly qualify me for the job :) Maybe we should continue this discussion in private, so we don't bore everyone to death. Cheers, Carsten -- 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
