Hello Alex, Following up on your mail that I missed replying to: On Sun, 13 Sep 2020 at 23:29, Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > > For other types, such as timeval, timespec, etc, I don't expect > > there are many conflicts. One case that I can think of where > > there's a function and a struct with the same name is 'sigaction'. > > But there's not really a problem there, since, on the one hand, > > I don't expect that that is one of the types that should be > > documented in system_data_types(7), > Why not? Well, my first thought is that the type is well documented in sigaction(2). But, now I wonder if maybe the type should also be documented in system_data_types(7). [...] > New question: > > I've already started and I'm writing the short description on 'time_t'. > > POSIX has copyright and all rights reserved, but do you think it would > be fair use to copy descriptions such as "Used for time in seconds."? > Or do I have to come up with a new short description? I think quoting POSIX is fine (fair use etc.), but we must be explicit about it, as I noted in my other mail in another thread a few minutes ago [1]. Thanks, Michael [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-man/20200922153822.33728-2-colomar.6.4.3@xxxxxxxxx/T/#m4eeb425aca975ded062fc36ada62dc4935eb4f67 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
