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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: enh <enh@google.com>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: getpagesize.2
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 10:11:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZgU0PKbECOOBaSZ7@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJgzZoqO_pdy_=+D0AHYhikXMDbTKKn94EttuUeE5EHjxct5vQ@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Elliott,

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 05:20:18PM -0700, enh wrote:
> > Do you intend to send patches?  Otherwise, let me know, and I'll prepare
> > something.
> 
> i can do, but it also sounds like enough of a bikeshed that i imagine
> you'd only want to rewrite it again anyway :-)

Actually, I tried to write something, and felt like you'll definitely do
better; I didn't like my text.  Please send a patch.  (I can do the
bikeshed when applying it, if you don't feel like entertaining it.)  :-}

> (i was actually surprised how many references to glibc 2.0 there are
> in various man pages, and even more amused by references to "ancient
> versions of glibc" being defined as "before glibc 2.0", as  if 1997
> isn't ancient :-) )

You can move anything like that to HISTORY sections in any page you see
it.  In some cases, it might make sense to remove it, but only if it was
a small bug.

Have a lovely day!
Alex

-- 
<https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
Looking for a remote C programming job at the moment.

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-28  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAJgzZooCY7EV5LZSom08k0wVB2SW3KAk-HL9VMsioxivQB=MeQ@mail.gmail.com>
2024-03-26 23:20 ` getpagesize.2 Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-28  0:20   ` getpagesize.2 enh
2024-03-28  9:11     ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2024-03-30  0:17       ` getpagesize.2 enh
2024-03-30 23:24         ` getpagesize.2 Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-31 21:35           ` getpagesize.2 Alejandro Colomar
2024-03-26 22:55 getpagesize.2 enh

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