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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: наб <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@jwilk.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysctl.7: create as .so man5/proc.5
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2023 01:04:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7818bd3c-0351-a738-fd69-14b59838cbeb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d8c054990e567bdc9a4745c63eacedee4f22c97.1680300226.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>


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Hi наб,

On 4/1/23 00:04, наб wrote:
> This way "whatis sysctl" shows the list of sysctls and documentation,
> in addition to the syscall and program. Indeed, the latter two aren't
> all that useful without the former.
> 
> Not a single concrete file, and it's more of an interface => goes in 7.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
> ---
>  man7/sysctl.7 | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>  create mode 100644 man7/sysctl.7
> 
> diff --git a/man7/sysctl.7 b/man7/sysctl.7
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..d8be74ac8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/man7/sysctl.7
> @@ -0,0 +1 @@
> +.so man5/proc.5

How about a SEE ALSO reference in the sysctl(8) page instead?  I had
a look at that page, and it hints that you should look at proc(5)
--it mentions /proc/sys/, although there's no explicit reference to
proc(5)--.

Cheers,
Alex


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-01 23:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-25 21:00 [PATCH] symlink.7: expound upon fs.protected_symlinks наб
2023-03-27  6:31 ` Jakub Wilk
2023-03-27 12:29   ` [PATCH v2] symlink.7: cross-link to proc.5 for fs.protected_symlinks наб
2023-03-31 21:44     ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-03-31 22:04       ` [PATCH 1/2] proc.5: add "system information, and sysctl" to .SH наб
2023-03-31 22:11         ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-04-01 22:58         ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-03-31 22:04       ` [PATCH 2/2] sysctl.7: create as .so man5/proc.5 наб
2023-03-31 22:14         ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-04-01 23:04         ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2023-04-01 23:26           ` наб
2023-04-01 23:28             ` Alejandro Colomar

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