Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:49:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>, Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: _sigprocmask in malloc.c causes full file table? Message-ID: <3B75D285.B8813EA1@mindspring.com> References: <66435.997574201@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <3B75CD06.7E7BA39F@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Well, as long as you insist on keeping the problem description to > > yourself, the vast hordes of non-programmers at our disposal can't help > > much, now can they? > > But I don't. > > All you need to do is: > > 1) Buy a copy of the "Go SOLO 2" book. > 2) Read the man pages on the included CDROM side by side > with the FreeBSD man pages for the same command. > 3) Correct the FreeBSD man pages: > a) When they are not as verbose, make them more > verbose (case in point) > b) When they are different, ask which behaviour > is correct for FreeBSD > i) Correct the man pages, if FreeBSD > matches "Go SOLO 2" > ii) Correct the man pages, if FreeBSD > does not match "Go SOLO 2", and add > an entry to the bugs section > iii) Add modified man pages for FreeBSD, > and add a comment for future man > page editors about the difference > being intentional, if FreeBSD has > decided on gratuitous incompatability To add to this, I am willing to put up to US$1000 where my mouth is: If you are an experienced technical writer, or you are a an English major, and can provide your bonifides, and will commit to making at least 10 man page corrections as a result, I will buy you a copy of the "Go SOLO 2" book and ship it to you. I will do this for 10 people, and I will give preference to people with FreeBSD commit priv's to the documentation tree. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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