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Re: Updating dtrace(1) man page



On Jun 6,  8:37pm, er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost (Abhinav Upadhyay) wrote:
-- Subject: 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? :)

I guess wait. When is the import happening?

christos


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