linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] proc_pid_fdinfo.5: Reduce indent for most of the page

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Message-ID: <ZybPcmC-93wvsxtr@riva.ucam.org>
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 01:18:42 +0000
From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@...ian.org>
To: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@...il.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-man@...r.kernel.org, groff@....org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] proc_pid_fdinfo.5: Reduce indent for most of the
 page

(now with some local vim macros fixed to stop accidentally corrupting
the To: lines of some of my outgoing emails ...)

On Sat, Nov 02, 2024 at 08:09:29PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2024-11-03T00:47:23+0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > and the fact that the NAME section has both semantic and
> > presentational meaning means that like it or not the parser needs to
> > be aware of this.)
> 
> Even if mandb(8) doesn't run groff to extract the summary descriptions/
> apropos lines, I think this feature might be useful to you for
> coverage/regression testing.  Presumably, for valid inputs, groff and
> mandb(8) should reach similar conclusions about how the text of a "Name"
> section is to be formatted.

Yes, that's a good point and I agree with that.

-- 
Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@...ian.org]