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Re: Commented Open PRs
>>>>> Mark Kettenis writes:
Mark> From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
Mark> Date: 13 Jul 2000 16:31:19 +0200
Mark> I've gone through all open bug reports for glibc and closed some of
Mark> them. For the rest I've added some comments. I've made a HTML page
Mark> and uploaded the page to <http://www.suse.de/~aj/pr-summary.html>.
Mark> Thanks for doing this.
Mark> Could you please look at the reports, send me your comments - and fix
Mark> all open reports ;-) ?
>> From the web page:
Mark> 1638 libc libc-2.1.2 Noncr libc-gn$ open doc-bug David Madore The O_NOLINK flag for open() is in the doc but not in headers
Mark> How shall we name the Hurd? - the "GNU system" is confusing.
Mark> We cannot call Linux *the* GNU system since it has arbitrary limits :-).
Mark> But seriously, there are several places where the term is used
Mark> throughout the documentation. We could of course be more specific in
Mark> those places (the GNU systems vs. a Hurd-based GNU system vs. a
Mark> Linux-based GNU system), but we could also say somewhere in the
Mark> introduction that not all features of *the* GNU system are present in a
Mark> Linux-based GNU system, and perhaps add an appendix describing the
Mark> different feautures of Linux.
Mark> I'm volunteering to write that short intro (which will of course be a
Mark> shameless plug for the Hurd :-)), and make a start with the
Mark> Linux-specific appendix, if people think this is a good idea.
Any change is a good idea;-). Besides your suggestion, the only
alternative is to change the wording everywhere. I suggest you go
ahead.
Andreas
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