On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
We perhaps disagree a little on the balance between that and other
factors, but I think we fundamentally agree on what's good to aim for.
I think so. I had written rather more on the subject but deleted it as I
thought I would be unlikely to
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Reuben Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
We perhaps disagree a little on the balance between that and other
factors, but I think we fundamentally agree on what's good to aim for.
I think so. I had written rather
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
The odd thing about msgop(2) is that there is no msgop(2). I suggest fixing
that by removing the text msgop from the page, and renaming it to msgsnd.2
or msgrcv.2, and having msgop.2 link to it.
I agree that it's odd, but the name msgop (message
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Reuben Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
The odd thing about msgop(2) is that there is no msgop(2). I suggest
fixing
that by removing the text msgop from the page, and renaming it to
msgsnd.2
or msgrcv.2,
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
Not sure if that was all you wanted, but I removed msgop and shmop
from the NAME section of the respective pages, to reduce the kind of
ambiguity you are talking about.
That's exactly what I meant.
I went away now and checked. It seems that the
Hi Reuben,
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Reuben Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.79-2
Severity: minor
In the DESCRIPTION section, utimes() has an outdented heading, but
utime() does not. By comparison with other similar man pages it seems
the most
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
Hi Reuben,
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Reuben Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.79-2
Severity: minor
In the DESCRIPTION section, utimes() has an outdented heading, but
utime() does not. By comparison with other
Hi Reuben,
In the DESCRIPTION section, utimes() has an outdented heading, but
utime() does not. By comparison with other similar man pages it seems
the most consistent thing would be to remove the heading for utimes().
There are some other pages that are like this, e.g., poll.2,
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
I agree that there is probably some inconsistency between pages. It's
a consequence of having many different authors.
This is quite natural; equally, especially under central maintainership,
it's nice to fix up. The more consistent that core man
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Reuben Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
I agree that there is probably some inconsistency between pages. It's
a consequence of having many different authors.
This is quite natural; equally, especially under
Package: manpages-dev
Version: 2.79-2
Severity: minor
In the DESCRIPTION section, utimes() has an outdented heading, but
utime() does not. By comparison with other similar man pages it seems
the most consistent thing would be to remove the heading for utimes().
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