From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Kerrisk Subject: Re: import queue(3) man page ? Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:07:47 -0500 Message-ID: <49107353.2010906@gmail.com> References: <200810260058.02527.vapier@gentoo.org> <200810260422.47918.vapier@gentoo.org> <20081026083055.GA9020@infradead.org> <200810260500.39607.vapier@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200810260500.39607.vapier-aBrp7R+bbdUdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Mike Frysinger Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.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 meh, having an outdated one is just as bad i think.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 -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- 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