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Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 00:04:04 +0100
From: Justin Cormack <justin@...cialbusservice.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Isaac <idunham@...abit.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Linux manpages (was Re: Request for volunteers)
On 6 Jul 2013 23:12, "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
wrote:
>
> Hello Isaac,
>
> On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Isaac <idunham@...abit.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 03:08:52AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
wrote:
> >> Gidday,
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 7:44 PM, Felix Janda <felix.janda@...teo.de>
wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > Rich Felker wrote:
> >
> >> >> Maybe someone should contact him about all the stuff we're
discussing.
> >> >
> >> > I asked him some time ago about the posix man pages and offered help
with the
> >> > conversion.
> >> >
> >> > He has interest in creating new posix man pages for the SUSV4 TC1.
The status
> >> > from beginning of June was that he had contacted The Open Group
asking for
> >> > permission. Possibly, we might get troff sources.
> >>
> >> As of a few days ago, the necessary permissions are granted. I do not
> >> yet have the source files (and so am unsure of the source format), but
> >> I expect that they will become available to us in the next couple of
> >> weeks.
> >
> > On a slightly related note, would you be interested in patches for the
> > Linux manpages briefly documenting places where musl differs from glibc
> > (in the NOTES section, along the same lines as the notes about
libc4/libc5)?
>
> Historically, man-pages has primarily documented glibc + syscalls, but
> there's nothing firm about that. It's more been about limited time
> resources and the fact that glibc is the most widely used libc. I'd
> have no objection to musl-specific notes in the man-pages. Perhaps a
> patch to libc(7) would be a good place to start.
The man(2) section is rather glibc specific and makes the syscall details
rather subsidiary. I will try to send some patches if these would be
welcome.
Justin
> Cheers,
>
> Michael
>
>
> --
> Michael Kerrisk
> Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
> Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/
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