From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6AD1C433DB for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 13:26:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80396225AC for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 13:26:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728671AbhAEN0F (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2021 08:26:05 -0500 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:46822 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727146AbhAEN0E (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jan 2021 08:26:04 -0500 Received: from mail-ej1-x62a.google.com (mail-ej1-x62a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::62a]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2669DC061574 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 05:25:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-ej1-x62a.google.com with SMTP id qw4so41139348ejb.12 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 05:25:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=cc:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=15xZBie4vt1PVSC+nYSD0mZyNaLkzaa8+BITpZZThIs=; b=unfdzX4cexegzy8X8d5rN0cf5zi87gmGuUBg1emjC8ftdFg+Ig3yLCNjGGGf76Mbwd FuAMA2eqFiUuGMAjRSXvb37/2ykZb3vuCRJm/I8qQGpa6WKGCycCQwkvRSz01ahFqkzf N6NrNkx0NfcXJsBK+WgEJT+wvFgidiG41BJe/V8uabeqfAkvOzm4FQYWRwX6vhgRgc8z NiYXVkrJIfY+2aah17XuQsIpwy4yjN2F4dHz19ebM/WtaId22iSXHW8egiU5qcZToUVL ZjRlc5AW0byupA4/43Wt9jpD42j7uIkQ8kMMBp/bgQc7K6SEIxLI9PpsTk1oP3gJ4otv WF3g== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:cc:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=15xZBie4vt1PVSC+nYSD0mZyNaLkzaa8+BITpZZThIs=; b=iwDXWUcGn//OEQUwqVzGZj+nAcM0lAB+suzCGOPo3J6Bp3ruLTnABiy2mT8dWGs+Jd i80y0sxPOc/QLQLQj/HLPx4ZA9JemCVClNHVtmwJQXLHrBBvHVmTVjo+zEwkvtArHxsU FV0Vny3GdN50Mz292lzIEFAHxYm8qxj99QQlq5EyNzdl1r6OYaeIOmQEI99b7h1CqcoK ZrQJWXtQvX1tWJxcBk/XAtS5/fsybo/c0Yv3ou/wMK2vDo3KAvgztfNpdxm0aEWgVTOC nxpjTYkxdfqSWBuLGczi36JXbS1wViPTqosKChyvpmf1Bwhy2+P6PIUimnONg4WfrnOX GoRg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM53323wtabS21POPWMpFoYN8ZMUlpbbDJVdtWzLc9U33uYJ0C59El oud5Ydz6UG0XSWdtankAV85UNdOn7Nk= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyON61nQwmrHDWWRH19MfZvoV2558Zuifm2D0QVmBnjdZs3UD2karQ5yB5Sf3r/FN0xwNooeA== X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:eb5b:: with SMTP id mc27mr69776945ejb.163.1609853122663; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 05:25:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPv6:2001:a61:244d:fe01:9fb1:d962:461a:45e8? ([2001:a61:244d:fe01:9fb1:d962:461a:45e8]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y17sm24723841ejj.84.2021.01.05.05.25.21 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 05 Jan 2021 05:25:21 -0800 (PST) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] circleq.3, list.3, slist.3, stailq.3, tailq.3: Improve readability, especially in SYNOPSIS To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" References: <20210104224515.140403-1-alx.manpages@gmail.com> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <21860ed2-c519-aff1-5d1d-ee2e76ead61a@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 14:25:21 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 1/5/21 12:05 AM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > BTW, I didn't reorder the descriptions to match the groups. > I wasn't sure about what to do, > so I prefered to leave them for now. I think it would be kind to the reader if the descriptions roughly matched (does not need to be exact) the ordering in the SYNOPSIS. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/