On 08/02/2014 11:57 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Fri 18 Jul 2014 11:01:02 Jan Chaloupka wrote: >> mtrace(1) command is not documented. All informations come from the script. >> >> Feel free to comment or ask any question. > > it doesn't feel right for truly glibc-specific tools to have their man pages > hosted in the Linux man-pages project, especially when you consider > functionality/flags/etc... skew across glibc versions trying to be tracked in > an unrelated git repo. Well, from a man-pages perspective, this doesn't seem terribly different from the Section 3 APIs. Also, a number of glibc commands are already (in many cases, since long ago) documented in man1 and man8. Cheers, Michael > the GNU standard doesn't say that we can't include them in GNU projects, just > that they should be secondary to info pages. so i think things like mtrace(1) > are better in glibc itself. > > how else do people feel in this regard ? > -mike > -- 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
