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Re: Updating dtrace(1) man page



On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> In article <CAHwRYJ=NDeuJMWj4r4mTY5DnC4VtSxUhP2GdqU-5N_KNX1VM4Q%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
> Abhinav Upadhyay  <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>The dtrace(1) man page currently seems to be a vanilla copy of what is
>>shipped with Solaris. For example it says that dtrace is a tracing
>>framework for Solaris. Similarly, it has references to Solaris
>>specific tools (isainfo -b) and documentation (Solaris Dynamic Tracing
>>guide).
>>
>>I was thinking to make a few changes to reflect that it was ported to
>>NetBSD from Solaris and to remove Solaris specific references. Then, I
>>looked at FreeBSD's dtrace(1) man page and they have already done
>>that. As a bonus, they have converted the man page to mdoc(7).
>>
>>I have compared our man page with theirs and everything is the same,
>>minus the references to Solaris specific tools and documentation.
>>Should we replace our man page with the FreeBSD version?
>
> Sure, go for it!
>

Is this still a go or should we wait till the import? :)

-
Abhinav


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