From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] man/man5/gai.conf: Document glibc label additions
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 17:44:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aVv4lWZ7G6Pg4Uas@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aVvyTfS5CC6zadBG@devuan>
* Alejandro Colomar (alx@kernel.org) wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 05:00:01PM +0000, dg@treblig.org wrote:
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>
> >
> > Glibc includes some extra entries in its default label table
> > as listed in the gai.conf it distributes:
> > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=posix/gai.conf
> >
> > Update the EXAMPLES to include the spec default and the version glibc
> > actually uses.
See v4:
20260105174401.222443-1-dg@treblig.org
With the .in and extra newlines.
(Ahem, sorry about v2,v3 )
Dave
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dave@treblig.org>
> > ---
> > man/man5/gai.conf.5 | 14 ++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/man/man5/gai.conf.5 b/man/man5/gai.conf.5
> > index ef330995d..0d3c86842 100644
> > --- a/man/man5/gai.conf.5
> > +++ b/man/man5/gai.conf.5
> > @@ -87,6 +87,20 @@ .SH EXAMPLES
> > precedence ::/96 20
> > precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 10
> > .EE
>
> You forgot to close with '.in'.
>
> > +.P
> > +Glibc includes some extra rules in the label table for site-local addresses,
> > +ULA, and Teredo tunnels. Its default label table is:
>
> Please use semantic newlines. See man-pages(7):
>
> $ MANWIDTH=72 man man-pages | sed -n '/Use semantic newlines/,/^$/p'
> Use semantic newlines
> In the source of a manual page, new sentences should be started on
> new lines, long sentences should be split into lines at clause
> breaks (commas, semicolons, colons, and so on), and long clauses
> should be split at phrase boundaries. This convention, sometimes
> known as "semantic newlines", makes it easier to see the effect of
> patches, which often operate at the level of individual sentences,
> clauses, or phrases.
>
>
> Have a lovely night!
> Alex
>
> > +.in +4n
> > +.EX
> > +label ::1/128 0
> > +label ::/0 1
> > +label 2002::/16 2
> > +label ::/96 3
> > +label ::ffff:0:0/96 4
> > +label fec0::/10 5
> > +label fc00::/7 6
> > +label 2001:0::/32 7
> > +.EE
> > .in
> > .\" .SH AUTHOR
> > .\" Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
> > --
> > 2.52.0
> >
>
> --
> <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es>
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2026-01-05 17:00 [PATCH] man/man5/gai.conf: Document glibc label additions dg
2026-01-05 17:19 ` Alejandro Colomar
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