(sorry, didn't get chance to get back to this until now. as penance, i've caught up with a couple of other outstanding man7 patches too!) thanks for doing the major cleanup. attached is my trivial change on top of that. On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 4:33 PM Alejandro Colomar <alx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2023-09-13 23:50, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > > Hi enh, > > > > On 2023-09-13 21:58, enh wrote: > >> is it a requirement that the 3p pages only contain text that's > >> explicitly in POSIX? > > > > Yes, I guess. > > > >> the siginfo_t::si_addr description on > >> system_data_types.7 (which is what people see if they `man siginfo_t`) > >> says "Address of faulting instruction", which isn't true for all > >> signals, and caused enough confusion for the ART maintainers that they > >> came to me as Android's libc maintainer for an adjudication. meanwhile > >> the sigaction.2 page says "Memory location which caused fault" which > >> seems much more helpful. > > > > siginfo_t(3type), aka system_data_types(7), isn't a POSIX page, so > > we can patch it if you want. > > > > I'd also move the types to their own pages and have system_data_types(7) > > be a link to intro(3) (until we have an intro(3type)). > > I've done this. Please check if you approve these patches: > > <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/log/?h=contrib> > > Cheers, > Alex > > -- > <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/> > GPG key fingerprint: A9348594CE31283A826FBDD8D57633D441E25BB5 >
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