From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 30 12:51:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk [193.237.89.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACF9156FF for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk) Received: from kilt.nothing-going-on.org (kilt.nothing-going-on.org [192.168.1.18]) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA79389; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:36:08 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Received: (from nik@localhost) by kilt.nothing-going-on.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA48685; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:08:58 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik@catkin.nothing-going-on.org) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:08:58 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: "Alton, Matthew" Cc: "'Matthew Dillon'" , "David E. Cross" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed. Message-ID: <19990730110858.A48178@kilt.nothing-going-on.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Alton, Matthew on Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 10:45:51AM -0500 Organization: Nik at home, where there's nothing going on Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 10:45:51AM -0500, Alton, Matthew wrote: > I ran screaming into the woods last year from trying to grok VOP_foo. The > prospect of a rewrite fills me with warmth and fuzziness. I hereby volunteer > to maintain the VOP(9) man pages and to flesh out my notes into a big, beefy > FS-implementer's Guide to the new VOP_foo. All the coders have to do is > answer my (at least marginally clueful) questions along the way and keep > posted as to what's going on in new VM-land. I won't even pester anyone > with design suggestions... very much. Solid offer, kids. Everybody wins. > Give it some thought. Sounds good. Yell for any assistance you need from the Doc. Proj. In particular, the FS Implementer's Guide sounds good. What (markup) language were you planning on using? N PS: Reply-to: should probably be set to doc, but I've left that at your discretion. -- [intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed, non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs the links. -- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message