Re: Updating dtrace(1) man page

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 10:10 PM, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)
<yaneurabeya%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
>> On Jun 6, 2017, at 09:19, Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
> 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