From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 18:43:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA8A16A409 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 18:43:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA60913C45E for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 18:43:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bz@FreeBSD.org) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3359A1FFE24; Thu, 17 May 2007 20:15:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id D30C51FFE17; Thu, 17 May 2007 20:15:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net (maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net [10.111.66.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1914244487F; Thu, 17 May 2007 18:11:51 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 18:11:51 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net To: "Michael W. Lucas" In-Reply-To: <20070517165540.GA12681@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> Message-ID: <20070517180227.V2939@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <20070517165540.GA12681@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS cksoft-s20020300-20031204bz on transport.cksoft.de Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lock order reversals page X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 18:43:40 -0000 On Thu, 17 May 2007, Michael W. Lucas wrote: Hi, thanks for picking this up. > I'm sitting here in the dev summit listening to Bjorn Zeeb talk about > the lock order reversal page, > http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/lor.html . Bjorn is a single you can find a few slides on the wiki now too: (see the 'Formal Session' on http://wiki.freebsd.org/200705DevSummit) > point of failure for this list, and he's the only one who can maintain > it. > > Consensus appears to be that it's a useful resource that deserves > keeping. > > Any opinions on bringing this into the doc/ tree? I think having it > as an article would be useful. Multiple people could maintain it that > way. let me give two comments in addition to this: - though it's HTML atm, if your are going to take it, I am very happy to change it to XML. I have some perl script I had used to split it up into the indivdual pages so it should be easily adopted to do the s,HTML,XML, part;) - I just want to warn you to not go back to one page style. Been there and it was no longer really loadable. wc says for the sum of the detail pages and the overview page: 27124 70637 971780 total There is some overhead in that but the list is going to grow... > I'm in the final landing stages of "Absolute FreeBSD," so I could do > the conversion in a couple of months (six weeks to finish the book, > two weeks to stare blankly at the wall). If anyone felt like doing > the article-ization beforehand, I wouldn't object. > > Opinions? > > ==ml /bz -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT