Hi Elliott, On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 04:15:27PM GMT, enh wrote: > > Maybe we need to add a "C library/kernel differences" section? > > what's your timeline for "currently interesting" vs "just historical"? I guess the line is when systems that provide XXX are EOL. I usually check Debian and RHEL versions for determining that. > (though i guess whatever that is, Linux 6.6 is pretty new at less than > 12 months old!) Yup. :) > > > $ grep -rh '^\.SS ' man | sort | uniq -c | sort | tail > > 5 .SS glibc > > 7 .SS Authors and copyright conditions > > 8 .SS Address format > > 11 .SS Ioctls > > 11 .SS glibc notes > > 12 .SS Socket options > > 13 .SS /proc interfaces > > 15 .SS ISO/IEC\~8859 alphabets > > 51 .SS C library/kernel differences > > 99 .SS Program source > > > > Would you mind preparing a patch? > > if you just want the trivial removal of the incorrect sentence, sure > ... if you want a whole new "C library/kernel differences" section I prefer the latter: instead of removing and then documenting the kernel/libc difference, I'd make it in a single commit, so that git-blame(1) shows the history better. > you're probably able to write that ... which is probably a good I could... I'd have to research a little bit for it. Do you feel like writing a draft with what you've found already, and I continue from it? If you're busy or lazy, though, just let me know and I'll try to do it from scratch myself. :) > juncture to point out that there's also a whole missing function --- > there's no mention of lchmod() which seems to have been added in > GLIBC_2.3.2 (yes, 22 years ago; not to be confused with 2.32 :-) ... > except i don't think it _worked_ on Linux until glibc sha > 6b89c385d8bd0700b25bac2c2d0bebe68d5cc05d in 2020? i don't know how you > want to document that!). You probably know that function much better than me. If you want to have a look at it, it'll be very welcome. (But considering that we've been waiting for several years, we're not in a hurry.) :) Have a lovely day! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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