On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 6, 2017, at 09:19, 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? > > Hi Abhinav, > If you have suggestions for dtrace(1) (based on the FreeBSD’s > manpage), please let me know. I’ll be happy to review and usher them into our > tree :).
Hi Ngie, Thank you for the help, I will try to push any improvements that we make, to the FreeBSD man page as well. I will keep you posted :-) - Abhinav
