Re: import queue(3) man page ?

[Mike Frysinger <vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On Sunday 26 October 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 04:22:46AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > it's the "updated" part that's the rub.  stock glibc has an ancient
> > queue.h while we've been updating it in Gentoo.  i thought i checked and
> > found that man-pages simply didnt have one, but it's more a matter of it
> > being old.
>
> When I imported queue.h it matches what was in glibc back then.  I tried
> updating queue.h in glibc around the same time, but Uli doesn't like it.

yeah, it should get updated or punted already.

> Updating the man page to reflected some distro fork of the header
> doesn't seem like a good idea.

i wasnt suggesting we do that.  i was explaining why i started this thread in 
the first place.

> And at least five year ago all the maintained BSDs actually had quite
> different additions to queue.h, so which one to pick would be rather
> hard and I at least partially understand Uli's rejection.

meh, having an outdated one is just as bad i think.
-mike

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