[Haifux] Re: Funny man pages [was Re: user-level threads: Signal Handler (fwd)]

[Nadav Har'El]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote about "Funny man pages [was Re: user-level 
threads: Signal Handler (fwd)]":
> 
> >From the Linux getopt(3) manpage: "BUGS:
> This manpage is confusing."

I just noticed that the getopt(3) manpage on Redhat 7.2 no longer has that
line. I double-checked, and in Redhat 6.2 this line did exist. The strange
thing is that on both systems the manual is dated 8 May 1998, so apparently
someone went and deleted only that self-incriminating line :)

> Another favourite of mine is the strtok(3) man page:
> 
> BUGS: Never use these functions.

Some systems (I remember in Solaris, but also in NetBSD - maybe this came
from 4.2BSD) had the following in the BUGS section of tunefs(8):

        You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.

(if you don't understand the pun, try reading it out loud with an American
accent).


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