docs/188786: Bug in inet(3) man page (inet_aton())

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

The following reply was made to PR docs/188786; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages at gmail.com>
To: Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/188786: Bug in inet(3) man page (inet_aton())
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 15:52:46 +0200

 Thanks for the info, Mark.
 
 On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
 > On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 07:06:48AM +0000, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
 >> I see the same text in the OpenBSD page, and also the NetBSD page.
 >> How does this work -- should I submit bugs for each of those systems,
 >> or do communicate such problems to one another?
 >
 > Short answer: we do't automatically sync with one another.
 >
 > Longer answer: it would take some investigation to find out if one or
 > the other of the 3 has a "canonical" set of manpages that the others
 > have copied.  So, the best way is to open a PR for each.
 >
 > Thanks.
 >
 > mcl
 
 
 
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