man-pages MT attributes status / update

man-pages MT attributes status / update

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hello Ma Shimiao

Now that you have started sending patches that bring the 
man-pages and glibc MT-safety into agreement, I think 
we'll soon be ready to release a lot of pent up patches 
(~350!) into a mainline man-pages release. My thanks
to you and you colleagues at Fujitsu for all of this 
work!

I imagine that there are still some remaining differences 
between the man-pages and glibc MT-safety markings. Do you have
an idea of how many pages remain to be fixed?

By the way, as far as I can tell, we now have all man-pages 
attributes markings in the "new look" boxed format. Can you 
confirm?

With all of the preceding in mind, I've done a bit of Git
reorganization. I've removed the 'attributes_reformat_2' branch
at http://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git .
In its place, there is now a new branch 'mt_attributes'.
I made that change for a couple of reasons:

1. I rebased the changes in the attributes_reformat' branch
   against man-pages-3.77. In the process, I resolved a handful
   of conflicts, and as a result of the rebase the SHA-1 IDs
   changed.

2. Into 'mt_attributes', I have merged all of the other 
   MT-safety patches that were in a private branch that I was 
   running. These were the patches in the last few months that
   added ATTRIBUTES to pages that did not have them.

I hope that switching to the new branch does not present 
any inconvenience to you. Of course, with this change, now
the 'mt_attributes' branch shows all of the patches from you
and your colleagues that I have merged. With luck, the view 
in that branch should be completely consistent with your 
local copy.

Cheers,

Michael


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Re: man-pages MT attributes status / update

[Ma Shimiao]

Hello Michael

On 01/16/2015 04:35 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hello Ma Shimiao
> 
> Now that you have started sending patches that bring the 
> man-pages and glibc MT-safety into agreement, I think 
> we'll soon be ready to release a lot of pent up patches 
> (~350!) into a mainline man-pages release. My thanks

That's a good news!
> to you and you colleagues at Fujitsu for all of this 
> work!

You're welcome.
> 
> I imagine that there are still some remaining differences 
> between the man-pages and glibc MT-safety markings. Do you have
> an idea of how many pages remain to be fixed?

I think there are still 24 pages need to be fixed.
I hope I can finish them in this week.
> 
> By the way, as far as I can tell, we now have all man-pages 
> attributes markings in the "new look" boxed format. Can you 
> confirm?

There is a page man3/iconv.3 which is still not in the "new look".
Peng has sent a patch to fix it at 10/14/2014 03:39 PM, but the
patch has not been applied.
> 
> With all of the preceding in mind, I've done a bit of Git
> reorganization. I've removed the 'attributes_reformat_2' branch
> at http://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git .
> In its place, there is now a new branch 'mt_attributes'.
> I made that change for a couple of reasons:
> 
> 1. I rebased the changes in the attributes_reformat' branch
>    against man-pages-3.77. In the process, I resolved a handful
>    of conflicts, and as a result of the rebase the SHA-1 IDs
>    changed.
> 
> 2. Into 'mt_attributes', I have merged all of the other 
>    MT-safety patches that were in a private branch that I was 
>    running. These were the patches in the last few months that
>    added ATTRIBUTES to pages that did not have them.
> 
> I hope that switching to the new branch does not present 
> any inconvenience to you. Of course, with this change, now

No, it doesn't.


Best regards
> the 'mt_attributes' branch shows all of the patches from you
> and your colleagues that I have merged. With luck, the view 
> in that branch should be completely consistent with your 
> local copy.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michael
> 
> 


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Re: man-pages MT attributes status / update

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hello Ma Shimiao

On 01/19/2015 02:42 AM, Ma Shimiao wrote:
> Hello Michael
> 
> On 01/16/2015 04:35 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
[...]
>> I imagine that there are still some remaining differences 
>> between the man-pages and glibc MT-safety markings. Do you have
>> an idea of how many pages remain to be fixed?
> 
> I think there are still 24 pages need to be fixed.
> I hope I can finish them in this week.

Great!

>> By the way, as far as I can tell, we now have all man-pages 
>> attributes markings in the "new look" boxed format. Can you 
>> confirm?
> 
> There is a page man3/iconv.3 which is still not in the "new look".
> Peng has sent a patch to fix it at 10/14/2014 03:39 PM, but the
> patch has not been applied.

Thanks for spotting that! Fixed now.

>> I hope that switching to the new branch does not present 
>> any inconvenience to you. Of course, with this change, now
> 
> No, it doesn't.

Good.

Cheers,

Michael



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