Hi Jann, On Mon, 4 May 2020 at 13:18, Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi! > > I noticed that open_tree() doesn't have a manpage yet; and while > looking for a WIP manpage on the lists, I found this mail, which is > from February, submits manpages for open_tree() and other related > syscalls, and doesn't seem to have a response from you: > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200207174236.18882-1-pvorel@xxxxxxx/ > > I wonder whether maybe you haven't seen that mail in the first place. > It was addressed to linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as "To" and > mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx as "Cc", which is the reverse of what's > suggested at <https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/patches.html>... > maybe that runs into some filter on your side? Or maybe it just landed > in a spam filter somewhere or something like that? I saw it, but I've been catching up with a lot of other stuff, and aware that dealing with these pages is likely to be a big block of work. It didn't help that the water was already muddy before Petr's mail. Last year, David Woodhouse sent out seven different mails on the same day to different lists, with different pages combined differently in the patches (with most, but not all of the pages appearing twice in different mails), with no explaining cover letter on the patches. I asked David about this at the time, and he said he'd resend in a more orderly fashion after seeing if he would get some feedback from what he'd sent out. There was a little feedeback, but no response to that feedback from David, and no follow-up patches :-(. I've got some more time now, so can probably make some progress on this. But I think we do need David to be actively involved, because even after a quick glance at the pages I can see that I'll have a lot of questions. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
