Re: [PATCH] man3/*: ffix, change '-' to '\-' for options

[Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>]

On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 10:45:00AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> On 7/4/20 2:02 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 12:27:25PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> >> Hello Bjarni,
> >>
> >> On 7/2/20 12:50 AM, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> >>>   Change '-' to '\-' for the prefix of names to indicate an option.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig@rhi.hi.is>
> >>
> >> Patch applied, but:
> >>
> >>> ---
> >>>  man3/dlopen.3             | 2 +-
> >>>  man3/fts.3                | 2 +-
> >>>  man3/getsubopt.3          | 2 +-
> >>>  man3/insque.3             | 2 +-
> >>>  man3/mq_getattr.3         | 2 +-
> >>>  man3/posix_spawn.3        | 8 ++++----
> >>>  man3/pthread_setname_np.3 | 2 +-
> >>>  man3/sincos.3             | 2 +-
> >>>  man3/strfromd.3           | 6 +++---
> >>
> >> The above piece was broken, so I applied manually. Was your patch 
> >> against master?
> >>
> >   I always use my own copy of the repository where I apply my new
> > patches to.
> 
> Please don't. When I've rejected particular changes (as below),
> for reasons that I already explained (several times), then basing
> your patches on private repo that still has those changes will
> just cause breakage and wasted time for me. Please base patches
> off a pristine master.
> 
  I do not support bad, wrong decisions.

  I do not support misuse.

  Your "trouble" is a direct consequence of your decisions.

  I have already answered your "explanations".

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ones, is the toughest part of learning we must expect from that
system permanent mental damage for most students exposed to
it."

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SIGCSE Bulletin 1989, 21(1), pages xxv-xxxix.
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  "The problems of the real world are primarily those you are
left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions."

Page xxxviii in:

On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computing Science

Edsger W. Dykstra (Dijkstra)

SIGCSE Bulletin 1989, 21(1), pages xxv-xxxix.
Also "www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/"

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	It is necessary to consider all consequences of
	the proposed action in all states of nature.

There are lots of consequences of any given action.  Many of the
problems of society today are at least partly due to the failure
to realize that the "obvious" action taken had so many bad side
effects.

Herman Rubin in the Usenet forum "misc.education.science".

-- 
Bjarni I. Gislason