Hello Haitao and Qian Lei, Any thoughts on the changes proposed in that Git branch (see below). Cheers, Michael On 06/12/2014 02:16 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) > <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) >> <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi Carlos, >>> >>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Carlos O'Donell >>> <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) >>>> <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> Hi Carlos, Haitao, Qian Lei, Alex, >> [...] >>>>> Does one of those approaches eem okay? Haitao, Qian Lei, what do you >>>>> think? (I appreciate that there's a lot of pages to be fixed to follow >>>>> this new approach: I'd do that, though you could help if you want.) >>>> >>>> I agree with Peng, I like the first approach of a single table. >>> >>> Alrighty, I need to hack a few of the pages to see that this approach >>> works, and then we can make the change wholesale. >> >> Okay -- take a look[1] at the change in the 'attributes_reformat' >> branch that I've just pushed. That tries to cover a representative >> sampling of the changes that I think we need to make. In particular, >> the changed pages are: >> >> a64l.3 >> abort.3 >> abs.3 >> atof.3 >> bindresvport.3 >> drand48.3 >> fenv.3 >> >> Does this seem okay? >> >>>> We should also evaluate the approach of adding the glibc version to >>>> the table if and when the version change would change the result e.g. >>>> the table lists the historical values. >>> >>> Good point. I'll give that a little thought. >> >> Take a look at bindresvport.3 for an example of how we might deal with >> these cases. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Michael >> >> [1] $ git pull >> $ git checkout remotes/origin/attributes_reformat > > For good measure, I also added > > pthread_setcancelstate.3 > > to show two different attribute types in a table. > > Cheers, > > Michael > > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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
