Re: [PATCH] man: Add io_setup.3 and io_destroy.3

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2013-03-28T09:39:27Z

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 10:35 AM, <chrubis-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>> > This patch adds two missing manual pages.
>> >
>> > I've tried to format them in accordance with
>> > Linux man-pages project. If these are acked
>> > I'll reformat the rest of the io_* system call
>> > wrappers man pages to match.
>>
>> So, here's what I'm not clear on. AFAIK, the io_setup() wrapper (and
>> the other io_*() wrappers) is provided in libaio, right? And libaio is
>> a completely separate package from glibc, right?
>>
>> The man-pages project documents the Linux syscall and glibc APIs, so
>> if my understanding above is correct, then these io_*(3) pages belong
>> in the libaio package, not in in man-pages. Could you or Jeff clarify?
>
> You are 100% right and we both got it the first time you said this. I've
> simply CCed you so that you can have a quick look at the pages and say
> if they have all the information they should have before they got
> included into libaio.

Ahh -- sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were proposing to include
them into man-pages.

I'll go back and look at the pages and make a few comments.

Cheers,

Michael

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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/