From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: [PATCH] nscd.8: Correct NOTES section on reloading configuration files Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 11:26:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20081206102616.GA10491@machine.or.cz> References: <20081205231738.GU10491@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, drepper-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 06:49:09PM -0500, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Petr Baudis wrote: > > The original notes were obsolete, current nscd watches changes in > > config files. > > Can you provide some supporting information here. Pointers to > relevant sources, or email threads. nscd/connections.c, git log nscd/connections.c. ;-) > I think what I'm really meaning > is: could you write a nice changelog entry for this patch. Also, my > reading of the patch is that you are changing the page because glibc > changed at a certain point. If this is the case, it would be good to > note in which glibc version the change occurred, and then it would be > better to rewrite the page to describe old and new behaviors, rather > than just dropping the text that describes the old behavior. Do you > see what I mean? It behaved this way at least since "Sun Oct 18 15:02:11 1998 +0000", some four months after including the nscd implementation in glibc. But there does seem to be a short window between glibc-2.1 and glibc-2.1.3 when nscd -i was not available, I don't think it's worth muddling the point of the page with that, though. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis People who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have cold baths. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html