On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 9:49 PM, Christos Zoulas <chris...@zoulas.com> wrote: > On Jun 6, 8:37pm, er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com (Abhinav Upadhyay) wrote: > -- Subject: Re: Updating dtrace(1) man page > > | On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Christos Zoulas <chris...@astron.com> wrote: > | > In article > <CAHwRYJ=ndeujmwj4r4mty5dnc4vtsxuhp2gdqu-5n_knx1v...@mail.gmail.com>, > | > Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadh...@gmail.com> 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?
I don't know, but I was thinking to have the man page updated for NetBSD-8 as it will be the first release with dtrace enabled (if I am correct). But at the same time I wouldn't want to create more conflicts for the import. :) - Abhinav
