Re: the Linux man-pages as an educational tool

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Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Collin,
>
>> Date: 2026-08-02 16:27:21-0700
>> From: Collin Funk <[email protected]>
>>
> [...]
>>=20
>> I can't help but wonder of what happens in WG 14 rejects this
>> controversial, as obvious by this thread, change. Will the man-pages
>> changes be reverted? Or will we slowly watch them document personal
>> preferences instead of existing standards?
>
> This patch set is quite independent of the standard.  It documents a
> header file that has been provided since forever in glibc and most other
> POSIX-ish systems, so changes to the standard are unlikely to have any
> effects.  I've clarified this extensively.  If you want to discourage me
> from applying the change, you should rather bring up technical reasons.
>
> This passive-aggressive message is not something that will have the
> desired effects you could possibly reach with technical arguments.

I didn't read it as passive-aggressive, but I will say that I think
you've gone a bit hard in the responses to Collin in this subthread, and
I think the fact you sent several followup emails to yourself indicates
perhaps things got heated in the moment.

I think Collin was making the same conflict of interest point as
was raised earlier, just in a different way. You may or may not agree
with how he phrased it, and you're free to challenge that, but my
reading of your replies is that it went a bit far.

>
>
> Have a lovely night, please!
> Alex
>
>> After seeing weekly threads
>> about the prototype changes, I don't think it is an unreasonable
>> concern.
>>=20
>> Collin
>>=20

sam

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