From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: For review: mtrace(1) man page Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:07:28 -0500 Message-ID: <53F7CD30.2020002@gmail.com> References: <53C8E24E.3040704@redhat.com> <1777637.kUP8sTC8nC@vapier> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1777637.kUP8sTC8nC@vapier> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Mike Frysinger , Jan Chaloupka Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, libc-alpha-9JcytcrH/bA+uJoB2kUjGw@public.gmane.org, myllynen-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, drepper-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, Peter Schiffer List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 08/02/2014 11:57 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Fri 18 Jul 2014 11:01:02 Jan Chaloupka wrote: >> mtrace(1) command is not documented. All informations come from the script. >> >> Feel free to comment or ask any question. > > it doesn't feel right for truly glibc-specific tools to have their man pages > hosted in the Linux man-pages project, especially when you consider > functionality/flags/etc... skew across glibc versions trying to be tracked in > an unrelated git repo. Well, from a man-pages perspective, this doesn't seem terribly different from the Section 3 APIs. Also, a number of glibc commands are already (in many cases, since long ago) documented in man1 and man8. Cheers, Michael > the GNU standard doesn't say that we can't include them in GNU projects, just > that they should be secondary to info pages. so i think things like mtrace(1) > are better in glibc itself. > > how else do people feel in this regard ? > -mike > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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