From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761215AbbA3MSW (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jan 2015 07:18:22 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f54.google.com ([74.125.82.54]:45460 "EHLO mail-wg0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752521AbbA3MSU (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jan 2015 07:18:20 -0500 Message-ID: <54CB7686.1030302@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:18:14 +0100 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Lutomirski CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, "linux-man@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH manpages 0/2] Improve modify_ldt, [gs]et_thread_area docs References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/29/2015 10:47 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > The docs for set_thread_area, get_thread_area, and modify_ldt are pretty > bad, and there have been a number of kernel changes lately. Improve > and update the docs. Thanks very much for this, Andy! Those pages were indeed in a sorry state. Cheers, Michael > Andy Lutomirski (2): > modify_ldt.2: Overhaul the documentation > arch_prctl.2, set_thread_area.2, get_thread_area.2: Improve TLS > documentation > > man2/arch_prctl.2 | 22 +++++++---- > man2/get_thread_area.2 | 58 +--------------------------- > man2/modify_ldt.2 | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- > man2/set_thread_area.2 | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- > 4 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-) > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/