Re: rseq.2 Restartable Sequences man page updated

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Jun 16 2020 - 12:15:53 EST


On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 02:23:17PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> I took the liberty of updating the rseq.2 man page based on your
> last round of comments:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/librseq/librseq.git/tree/doc/man/rseq.2
>
> Soon, rseq support will be integrated into glibc, and the maintainers
> there want a stable link to documentation of the rseq system call.
> Documentation is pretty much the only remaining blocker for integration
> of rseq support into glibc.
>
> Ideally it should land into the man-pages project, but since it's been
> more than a year since I heard back from you, I am tempted to host it
> myself within the librseq project, even though it's far from ideal for
> hosting a kernel system call man page. Unfortunately, I suspect that
> hosting it in two locations (librseq and man-pages) will eventually
> create much confusion.
>
> Can you look into the updated man page please ? I can do the edits
> if you have further feedback.

For whatever it is worth, this looks good to me.

Michael, any reason this cannot be included into the official set of
manual pages?

Thanx, Paul