Re: [PATCH/RFC] resolver_r.3: New page documenting res_ninit() et al

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Hi,

Stefan Puiu wrote:

> IIRC bind 8 (or libbind) also comes with its own manpages.

libbind does.  Good find; not sure how I missed that.

> Ages ago I
> stole the info from their resolver.3 page and merged it with the page
> distributed with glibc (the current version is taken from there as
> well, IIRC). The patch got somehow lost through the cracks, I think...
>
> Or do you see any licensing issues with doing that?

libbind's manpages are permissively (ISC) licensed and so pretty much
hassle-free to reuse.  Could you send a link or other pointer (e.g.,
message-id) to your patch?

> OTOH, if you want to keep your approach and add another page for the
> reentrant functions, you might want to add a pointer in resolver.3 so
> people know there's another page as well :).

I snuck in a link in the SEE ALSO section.  If you have ideas for
where to broach the subject elsewhere (maybe in the paragraph
discussing _res?), I'd be happy to take them. :)

Thanks for looking it over.
Jonathan
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