Re: Navigational corrections

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hi Alex,


>  >
>  > The question of 'void *' is an interesting one. It is something
>  > like a fundamental C type, and not something that comes from POSIX.
>  > But, it does appear in POSIX APIs and often details of using
>  > the type are not well understood. So, as a matter of practicality,
>  > and again since you've done the work, I am inclined to include
>  > this type in the page, just so it can be handily referred to
>  > along with all of the other types.
>  >
>  > Looking ahead (and I hope none of the above disheartens you,
>  > since you've done a lot of great work for this page),
> 
> Actually, not.
> Its good to have you tell me what is good for the man and what's not.
> Otherwise, I wouldn't know.
> I keep a branch with all of the rejected patches,
> just to have an idea of what I should not send you :-)
> 
>  > it would
>  > be good if you could provide a bit of an advance roadmap about
>  > the types that you'd like to add to the page.
> 
> Well, I didn't have a clear roadmap.
> I had some types which I clearly wanted to document,
> and they were ptrdiff_t, and ssize_t,
> which I documented in the first patches,
> and then I was finding related types,
> and also tended to document about types which I knew very well too,
> to have something useful to add to the description.
> 
> I may now start writing about off_t and related types,
> which were the ones that made me want this page.

off_t would be great.

In case you are looking for some other candidates, some others
that I would be interested to see go into the page would be

fd_set
clock_t
clockid_t
and probably dev_t


Thanks,

Michael

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