From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] resolver_r.3: New page documenting res_ninit() et al Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 04:37:19 -0500 Message-ID: <20110704093719.GB25520@elie> References: <20110704051737.GA15844@elie> <20110704053331.GA16153@elie> 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: Stefan Puiu Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Mark Kettenis , Martin Ferrari , Robert Edmonds List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.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 -- 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