Re: import queue(3) man page ?

[Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>]

Mike,

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Sunday 26 October 2008, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 04:22:46AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> it's the "updated" part that's the rub.  stock glibc has an ancient
>>> queue.h while we've been updating it in Gentoo.  i thought i checked and
>>> found that man-pages simply didnt have one, but it's more a matter of it
>>> being old.
>> When I imported queue.h it matches what was in glibc back then.  I tried
>> updating queue.h in glibc around the same time, but Uli doesn't like it.
> 
> yeah, it should get updated or punted already.
> 
>> Updating the man page to reflected some distro fork of the header
>> doesn't seem like a good idea.
> 
> i wasnt suggesting we do that.  i was explaining why i started this thread in 
> the first place.
> 
>> And at least five year ago all the maintained BSDs actually had quite
>> different additions to queue.h, so which one to pick would be rather
>> hard and I at least partially understand Uli's rejection.
> 
> meh, having an outdated one is just as bad i think.

Are there some specific pieces you can see that need fixing in the
upstream page?  If so, would you have the time to write a patch?

thanks,

Michael

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