Hi Alex, > > > > The question of 'void *' is an interesting one. It is something > > like a fundamental C type, and not something that comes from POSIX. > > But, it does appear in POSIX APIs and often details of using > > the type are not well understood. So, as a matter of practicality, > > and again since you've done the work, I am inclined to include > > this type in the page, just so it can be handily referred to > > along with all of the other types. > > > > Looking ahead (and I hope none of the above disheartens you, > > since you've done a lot of great work for this page), > > Actually, not. > Its good to have you tell me what is good for the man and what's not. > Otherwise, I wouldn't know. > I keep a branch with all of the rejected patches, > just to have an idea of what I should not send you :-) > > > it would > > be good if you could provide a bit of an advance roadmap about > > the types that you'd like to add to the page. > > Well, I didn't have a clear roadmap. > I had some types which I clearly wanted to document, > and they were ptrdiff_t, and ssize_t, > which I documented in the first patches, > and then I was finding related types, > and also tended to document about types which I knew very well too, > to have something useful to add to the description. > > I may now start writing about off_t and related types, > which were the ones that made me want this page. off_t would be great. In case you are looking for some other candidates, some others that I would be interested to see go into the page would be fd_set clock_t clockid_t and probably dev_t Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
