From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH manpages 0/2] Improve modify_ldt, [gs]et_thread_area docs Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:18:14 +0100 Message-ID: <54CB7686.1030302@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, "linux-man@vger.kernel.org" List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 01/29/2015 10:47 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > The docs for set_thread_area, get_thread_area, and modify_ldt are pretty > bad, and there have been a number of kernel changes lately. Improve > and update the docs. Thanks very much for this, Andy! Those pages were indeed in a sorry state. Cheers, Michael > Andy Lutomirski (2): > modify_ldt.2: Overhaul the documentation > arch_prctl.2, set_thread_area.2, get_thread_area.2: Improve TLS > documentation > > man2/arch_prctl.2 | 22 +++++++---- > man2/get_thread_area.2 | 58 +--------------------------- > man2/modify_ldt.2 | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- > man2/set_thread_area.2 | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > 4 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-) > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/