On Sat, Jun 08, 2024 at 12:23:11AM GMT, ellie wrote:
> Dear Alejandro Colomar,
>
> I finally wrote a patch against the latest man pages, see file attached.
> Hopefully this is in a format that allows you to integrate it well.
>
> Some quick notes:
>
> 1. The "make" process aborted with an error, I couldn't use it to verify.
> However, pandoc seems to think my formatting is correct.
>
> 2. I still don't know if open("/proc/self/exe") has any internal race
> conditions on rename, like any more regular symlink. My text simply assumes
> it doesn't. Maybe some expert might want to double-check?
>
> 3. You can freely use my patch, no attribution needed. However, if source
> info is desired, you can supply "Ellie <el@xxxxxxxxxxx>" for that.
Also, please send the patch inline. Otherwise, I have a hard time quote
replying to it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ellie
>
> PS: The error that "make" gave me was this one, in case anybody finds this
> useful: "TROFF .tmp/man/man2/s390_sthyi.2.cat.set
> troff:.tmp/man/man2/s390_sthyi.2:124: warning [p 2, 1.8i]: cannot adjust
> line"
>
> On 12/12/23 9:47 AM, ellie wrote:
> > Dear Alejandro Colomar,
> >
> > I hope I'm emailing this to the correct place, I found this contact
> > information on https://man7.org/mtk/contact.html regarding man page
> > feedback:
> >
> > I'm suggesting that the "man 5 proc" page is expanded with a section
> > clarifying /proc/[pid]/self race conditions, I described details and
> > even made a text suggestion here:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216352
> >
> > (The text suggestion might be wrong, however, since I don't actually
> > know what the exact technical state of this is.)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > ellie
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