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bsmaalders

@ljrk @mhoye (I worked at Sun 1989->2017).

The technical writers at Sun were definitely professional and persistent. Like many things there, that department was cut repeatedly over the years to save money. Many of us ended up writing our own man pages when resources became scarce. The linker folks always wrote their own; the SunOS Linker and Library Manual is an excellent resource for Linux as well, since so much of Linux's dynamic linking was patterned after Sun's.

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lj·rk

@bsmaalders @mhoye To this day, alanc is still chugging along and fixing man pages with every release <3

Not only that, I'm of the opinion that my time with smf as well as with ldoms has helped me quite some when dealing with systemd and libvirt. There's a *lot* that has been copied (and I'm rather glad for it).

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