From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: [PATCH] getifaddrs.3: New manual page Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:09:06 +0100 Message-ID: <20090113170906.GS12275@machine.or.cz> References: <20081209025634.GD10491@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081209025634.GD10491-DDGJ70k9y3lX+M3pkMnKjw@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 03:56:34AM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote: > This patch adds documentation for the getifaddrs() and freeifaddrs() > functions as they are supported in GNU libc. The manual page is based > on the original BSD manpage (with licence as it appears on the top > of the file), but is significantly rewritten for Linux manpages > standards and containing all the differences. A simple example is > provided. > > I'm open to relicensing to any of the standard licences, this one > should be compatible even with the classic BSD licence. > > I did not do actually any testing on BSD systems about how exactly > this call behaves, I have only tried to figure this out from their > chaotic documentation and it wouldn't surprise me if it would in > fact behave the same as with glibc now. I cannot remember hostnames > of the BSD systems I used to have an account on. ;-) > > Few pages are cross-linked to point at getifaddrs(3) now, and > inet_ntop() got another example pointer. > > Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis ping? :-) Petr "Pasky" Baudis -- 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