[PATCH 0/2] Document void *

Alejandro Colomar colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com
Thu Oct 1 15:40:52 GMT 2020


Hi Michael,

On 2020-10-01 17:34, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> Hello Alex,
> 
> On 10/1/20 5:06 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
>> Hello Michael,
>>
>> This type is very special,
>> so I will probably have missed some details about it.
> 
> I do wonder if we actually need this in page at all, and given:


I think it should be.
I would also document 'void', even if it's a bit weird...
They are very useful, so why not document them?

> 
>> Also, do you like the link name?
> 
> I really don't like it... I don't want to create files
> whose names are globbing characters; that's a road to pain.


Yeah, me neither... :)

> 
> So, even if we did document this type in the page,
> I don't think we can have a good link name. (I suppose we
> could add it to the pagewithout having a link.)


But maybe we can have a link void.3.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Michael
> 


Thanks,

Alex


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