Hi Scott,
Scott Cheloha wrote on Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 11:02:00AM -0500:
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> Given deraadt@'s response I'm just going to leave the existing
> language.
Fine with me.
> I guess I will need to dig into it a bit. Finding the text of the
> really early documents, prior to SUSv2, is
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 04:00:51AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> Scott Cheloha wrote on Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 05:20:16PM -0500:
>
> > The nanosleep.2 page could use some cleanup. Here's a bunch of fixes,
> > rewrites, etc.
> >
> > I've included my notes on the changes below. I
Hi Theo,
Theo de Raadt wrote on Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 08:14:20PM -0600:
> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> [EFAULT] foo points outside the process's allocated address space.
>>
>> But i don't really i like that. The word "allocated" makes me wonder
>> because it sounds too much like malloc(3) for my
Scott Cheloha wrote:
> I'm not wed to keeping all the examples. What if we merge examples 1
> and 2 and dumb the result down a bit?
Are you teaching people how to fill a structure, how to perform a loop,
or that they need to check errno?
I don't see the point of having any example.
Do we
> [EFAULT] foo points outside the process's allocated address space.
>
> But i don't really i like that. The word "allocated" makes me wonder
> because it sounds too much like malloc(3) for my taste.
> Usually, pointers to automatic and to static objects are acceptable,
> too, and are those
Hi Scott,
Scott Cheloha wrote on Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 05:20:16PM -0500:
> The nanosleep.2 page could use some cleanup. Here's a bunch of fixes,
> rewrites, etc.
>
> I've included my notes on the changes below. I have some (mostly
> stylistic) questions in there, too.
Thanks for explaining
On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 06:26:45PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> I think this is excessively verbose for such a simple function, especially
> the addition of examples.
>
> There are many APIs which are hundreds of times more complicated which
> don't have this level of detailing, and I would
I think this is excessively verbose for such a simple function, especially
the addition of examples.
There are many APIs which are hundreds of times more complicated which
don't have this level of detailing, and I would argue such manual pages
have the correct tone and complexity.
It stops
