Re: [PATCH] iswblank.3: ATTRIBUTES: Note function that is thread safe with exceptions

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Hello Haitao and Qian Lei,

Any thoughts on the changes proposed in that Git branch (see below).

Cheers,

Michael


On 06/12/2014 02:16 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
> <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
>> <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Carlos,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Carlos O'Donell
>>> <carlos-v2tUB8YBRSi3e3T8WW9gsA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
>>>> <mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Carlos, Haitao, Qian Lei, Alex,
>> [...]
>>>>> Does one of those approaches eem okay? Haitao, Qian Lei, what do you
>>>>> think? (I appreciate that there's a lot of pages to be fixed to follow
>>>>> this new approach: I'd do that, though you could help if you want.)
>>>>
>>>> I agree with Peng, I like the first approach of a single table.
>>>
>>> Alrighty, I need to hack a few of the pages to see that this approach
>>> works, and then we can make the change wholesale.
>>
>> Okay -- take a look[1] at the change in the 'attributes_reformat'
>> branch that I've just pushed. That tries to cover a representative
>> sampling of the changes that I think we need to make. In particular,
>> the changed pages are:
>>
>>     a64l.3
>>     abort.3
>>     abs.3
>>     atof.3
>>     bindresvport.3
>>     drand48.3
>>     fenv.3
>>
>> Does this seem okay?
>>
>>>> We should also evaluate the approach of adding the glibc version to
>>>> the table if and when the version change would change the result e.g.
>>>> the table lists the historical values.
>>>
>>> Good point. I'll give that a little thought.
>>
>> Take a look at bindresvport.3 for an example of how we might deal with
>> these cases.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> [1]   $ git pull
>>       $ git checkout remotes/origin/attributes_reformat
> 
> For good measure, I also added
> 
>     pthread_setcancelstate.3
> 
> to show two different attribute types in a table.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 


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