From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 11 17:48:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7213D37B406; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:48:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.137.15.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.137.15]) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA27999; Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:48:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B75D285.B8813EA1@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2001 17:49:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn , Michael Robinson , current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: _sigprocmask in malloc.c causes full file table? References: <66435.997574201@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> <3B75CD06.7E7BA39F@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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