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=-5.6 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,URIBL_BLOCKED,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 1B4E9C4741F for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2020 15:34:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F0F2074B for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2020 15:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="Db9VH7U1" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1732104AbgJAPew (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2020 11:34:52 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39782 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1731885AbgJAPew (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2020 11:34:52 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-x441.google.com (mail-wr1-x441.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::441]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 775B5C0613D0 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2020 08:34:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wr1-x441.google.com with SMTP id s12so6316473wrw.11 for ; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:34:50 -0700 (PDT) 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=5nSxHhM79RvoZ18dq6lA970ASXxwEFZXWerZlGXV1DA=; b=Db9VH7U1/tRE1NjWdtp7d7DMwHU1PtKwdoqfMdtJu0aZbx37UzV2ESZaVlS52Dl/WY VGfY2cwOBZTjN3galhecHY3yDv5xIi9fw4yRXgeEuZ+KzYlGGnpP80mDqDPzo3AvYbVR 0QLO3iEOY7Lizm2mua0Tm8Mlud325DTUYLQ2jPlVDF454JZPEf2EL5veV245JZ6jzMIc WaWHR+VjsmgOtS+oBILRzp/AU2TUWp9Nrgdaf95YHiZxsxlU2qu8JZs/WfPD4y2c4Jph sIb8N9SK7C2oISrcZyoS/ZC7SvVzNB+TpupCAEKQUFVhZXvJsC5fObjL1rzB2+kw1xdt BW1g== 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=5nSxHhM79RvoZ18dq6lA970ASXxwEFZXWerZlGXV1DA=; b=hq1Ah8j86LoYheKSoLZNF87WMCbiE1181+ecKx+9l7NRY3XwUvZSNN97zEOvnqYZY5 uIeYC/STdBZzkGh+4FO0xwAjuvKxqXkjFJ5g4knJtyDVZMXK+oJ9hte/YWrZiLkt5U/H /VmNSwn7w7J0PQsbhRRhc31IEDE4zru3jgF5RC3aXf3q92OmwYS+Rjto/r+cjvUVfBZS wK4/5rnyMXA7W+YVxRFGFNf07cVlzSxRPjr+bH0bCP8YuRVBDH6mzo7NAtdPlirjqSSS 1aRxRcmUDIIPMKhx1Um/vxovHSezP9zLkGrrOMOOanVKHpDgCajmylsseHUhcAkgWi4c zddA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530uIEZEGMf5GHFxD4Nb3ck7dN37MqFzYKb7sVpe/gCFGnNiDyx5 M+bcLd485mO7CqlFvrvrKYdrUAG5Vio= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxx/kXQUHhMbAu4PcQ3Uu5jT98DQA8zw8x6tuNzzi/4gJlcjN1b8GS//Wq6qPXenWF6HFNYLg== X-Received: by 2002:adf:f552:: with SMTP id j18mr10295664wrp.128.1601566489179; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:34:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.178.63] (dynamic-077-009-049-048.77.9.pool.telefonica.de. [77.9.49.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e13sm10358077wre.60.2020.10.01.08.34.47 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 01 Oct 2020 08:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Document void * To: Alejandro Colomar References: <20201001150638.102544-1-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Message-ID: <71c5f264-38f4-18ee-fe96-39aad08c3369@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 17:34:47 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20201001150638.102544-1-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> 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 Hello Alex, On 10/1/20 5:06 PM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hello Michael, > > This type is very special, > so I will probably have missed some details about it. I do wonder if we actually need this in page at all, and given: > Also, do you like the link name? I really don't like it... I don't want to create files whose names are globbing characters; that's a road to pain. So, even if we did document this type in the page, I don't think we can have a good link name. (I suppose we could add it to the pagewithout having a link.) Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/