Re: [PATCH v5 2/4] proc_pid_fdinfo.5: Make pid clearer in the name and 1st paragraph

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Ian,

On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 11:38:26PM -0800, Ian Rogers wrote:
> Previously the pid was highlighted through being a tagged paragraph
> but not mentioned in the description. Add italics to the path
> emphasizing pid and then change the first sentence to include pid in
> the definition.
> 
> Suggested-by: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@xxxxxxxxx>

I'm going to reject this patch at the moment.  But I'd like to revisit
this patch in the future, so please resend (rebased) in half a year or
so (ideally after the release of groff-1.24.0).

Cheers,
Alex

> ---
> v5. Switch .IR pid to .I pid
> ---
>  man/man5/proc_pid_fdinfo.5 | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man5/proc_pid_fdinfo.5 b/man/man5/proc_pid_fdinfo.5
> index 1c6c38423..2797ae216 100644
> --- a/man/man5/proc_pid_fdinfo.5
> +++ b/man/man5/proc_pid_fdinfo.5
> @@ -6,10 +6,11 @@
>  .\"
>  .TH proc_pid_fdinfo 5 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)"
>  .SH NAME
> -/proc/pid/fdinfo/ \- information about file descriptors
> +.IR /proc/ pid /fdinfo " \- information about file descriptors"
>  .SH DESCRIPTION
> -This is a subdirectory containing one entry for each file which the
> -process has open, named by its file descriptor.
> +This subdirectory contains one entry for each file that process
> +.I pid
> +has open, named by its file descriptor.
>  The files in this directory are readable only by the owner of the process.
>  The contents of each file can be read to obtain information
>  about the corresponding file descriptor.
> -- 
> 2.47.0.338.g60cca15819-goog
> 

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