Hmm... you wrote "there was nothing, and I wrote a page." It matters
little to me how vfork comes to be documented. That said, I wonder
if some other motive is at play...
In September, you and I corresponded via email on this very topic. I
offered to develop the fork/vfork man page revisions, you responded with:
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 22:18:54 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Message-Id: <UTC199909172018.WAA18945.aeb@papegaai.cwi.nl>
Subject: Re: Linux vfork manual page
> If you wish, I will develop revisions ...
Yes, please.
Make sure that you do not delete the old text, but make the text
conditional on libc and kernel version.
Before Linux 1.1.92 ... Since 1.1.92 ...
Libc 4 and 5 and glibc 2.1 have ... glibc 2.2 has ...
Best regards, Andries
The next day revisions were submitted. You acknowledged receipt,
and offered some constructive criticism:
From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Message-Id: <UTC199909180125.DAA21459.aeb@papegaai.cwi.nl>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, rhp@draper.net
Subject: Re: Linux vfork manual page
Thanks!
I suppose I'll remove the CONTRIBUTORS section -
such things tend to cause confusion
(are the people listed those that wrote the programs
or those that wrote the man pages?)
and users are really not interested in seeing a list of names.
There is a global credits list, and each file has a history
in the comments.
Best regards, Andries
Nothing further was forthcoming until this thread started.
Shrug. I appreciate your efforts in keeping the man pages current.
As for me, my satisfaction comes mucking about in the code.
Regards,
Reed,
"We can walk our road together if our goals are the same. We can
run alone and free if we pursue a different aim." *
* Installation Notes for NetBSD 0.8, dated 19 April 1993.
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