Re: [PATCH 4/9] sigevent.3: New link to new documented type in system_data_types(7)

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-18T21:43:46Z

On 9/18/20 11:39 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> On 2020-09-18 23:10, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> On 9/18/20 7:04 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> man3/sigevent.3 | 1 +
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>> create mode 100644 man3/sigevent.3
>>
>> I think that I won't apply this, since it will hide sigevent(7).
>> Okay?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>>
>>> diff --git a/man3/sigevent.3 b/man3/sigevent.3
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 000000000..db50c0f09
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/man3/sigevent.3
>>> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
>>> +.so man7/system_data_types.7
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Fine, sigevent(7) already documents the type, so it's perfect. The
> type will be documented in system_data_types.7 anyway, so no problem.
>
> I guess you'll add a reference to system_data_types(7) in sigevent(7),
> right?

Do you think it's needed? I"m not so sure...

Thanks,

Michael

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