Re: the Linux man-pages as an educational tool

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From: Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]>
To: Sam James <[email protected]>
Cc: Collin Funk <[email protected]>, 
	"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]>, Arsen =?utf-8?Q?Arsenovi=C4=87?= <[email protected]>, 
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[email protected]>, Paul Eggert <[email protected]>, [email protected], 
	[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: the Linux man-pages as an educational tool
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Hi Sam,

> Date: 2026-08-03 15:03:30+0100
> From: Sam James <[email protected]>
>
> Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> writes:
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> >> Date: 2026-08-02 16:27:21-0700
> >> From: Collin Funk <[email protected]>
> >>
> > [...]
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> >> 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.
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> I didn't read it as passive-aggressive,

I did, and still do.

> 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.

Yes, they have.  And it was good that a night has happened after that.
It had calmed down.

> 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.

Collin went too far.


Have a lovely day!
Alex

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