For review: mtrace(1) man page

Jan Chaloupka jchaloup@redhat.com
Mon Aug 4 05:25:00 GMT 2014


Hi, Mike

On 08/02/2014 06:57 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Fri 18 Jul 2014 11:01:02 Jan Chaloupka wrote:
>> mtrace(1) command is not documented. All informations come from the script.
>>
>> Feel free to comment or ask any question.
> it doesn't feel right for truly glibc-specific tools to have their man pages
> hosted in the Linux man-pages project, especially when you consider
> functionality/flags/etc... skew across glibc versions trying to be tracked in
> an unrelated git repo.

First thing I do, when I need help, is to look into man page. Why? it is 
fast.

> the GNU standard doesn't say that we can't include them in GNU projects, just
> that they should be secondary to info pages.  so i think things like mtrace(1)
> are better in glibc itself.

I have nothing againts putting it into glibc itself as well.

> how else do people feel in this regard ?
> -mike

Jan



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