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From: Jon Grant <jg-hus3n9K41k0@public.gmane.org>
To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: errno "SEE ALSO" link on each page which returns errno values
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:57:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8DD953.9050704@jguk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgNAkhVZ4KpUUCdavC0-k6OdO3f4356rWo1vSpY8CEDbpXZ8Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>



On 17/04/12 20:45, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Jon,
>
> On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Jon Grant<jg-hus3n9K41k0@public.gmane.org>  wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I saw quite a lot of pages have this text:
>>
>> "in which case errno is set appropriately".
>>
>> e.g.
>> http://kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/close.2.html
>>
>> Could I ask, it would be useful to have a SEE ALSO link for errno
>> page, would that be possible?
>
> Since that would be the majority of the pages, what would the purpose be?

errno is a relevant link IMHO. Otherwise we have to click out, navigate 
to the page manually.

Regards, Jon
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-17 20:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-28 22:49 errno "SEE ALSO" link on each page which returns errno values Jon Grant
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2012-04-17 19:45   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]     ` <CAKgNAkhVZ4KpUUCdavC0-k6OdO3f4356rWo1vSpY8CEDbpXZ8Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-17 20:57       ` Jon Grant [this message]
     [not found]         ` <4F8DD953.9050704-hus3n9K41k0@public.gmane.org>
2012-04-18 20:47           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]             ` <CAKgNAkjQOEjH8iyMfm0K8FcqvDMFmj6KPfoxGNmwxfH5HBu5cA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-06 15:54               ` Jon Grant
     [not found]                 ` <4FA69ECE.8000505-hus3n9K41k0@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-06 18:14                   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
     [not found]                     ` <CAKgNAkj5UsnjU2uXijeYrYF-_Z6z9vgGgiP-7sH1NJ9pi7nrGw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-05-06 19:06                       ` Jon Grant

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