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| <h1>Repairing pages marked "FIXME"</h1> |
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| <p> |
| Grepping the source of the pages in |
| <em>man-pages</em> will show various places where |
| pages are marked with the string "FIXME". |
| There is also a shell script |
| (<span class="pathname">scripts/FIXME_list.sh</span>) |
| that can be used to obtain a list of FIXMEs |
| in the man page sources: |
| <div class="shell"> |
| $ <strong>cd man-pages</strong> |
| <br> |
| $ <strong>sh scripts/FIXME_list.sh .</strong> |
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| The presence of a FIXME usually indicates that someone has |
| noticed that some information on the page is incorrect or |
| incomplete, but has not had the time/knowledge to fix the problem. |
| (Sometimes a FIXME relates to a kernel or glibc bug report that is |
| awaiting resolution, and it may be sufficient to check if the bug |
| has been resolved and then, if necessary, |
| provide a suitable write-up on the page.) |
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| If you know how to fix the problem, then please send a patch. |
| However, note that some of the FIXME markings are associated with |
| problems that are quite difficult: you need to ensure that you are |
| knowledgeable on the relevant point(s), or you need to be willing to |
| invest the time to become knowledgeable (by reading kernel or |
| [g]libc source files and/or writing suitable test programs). |
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