Re: [Haifux] Re: Funny man pages

[Nadav Har'El]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002, Dan Kenigsberg wrote about "Re: [Haifux] Re: Funny man pages":
> See also CGI::Pretty: (for example)
> 
> BUGS
> 
>        This section intentionally left blank.

Since the invention of the nroff manual pages, oh, 25 years or so ago,
Unix developers had quite enough time to fix their bugs, so most manual
pages have no bugs to list in the BUGS section. So most manual pages
include in this section instructions on how to report bugs. Some try
to imply that there are none (or that there are always some), like the
one you showed and also (on my redhat 7.2 machine, just some stuff I
found in a few minutes of random man'ing):

vim(1):
        BUGS
                Probably.   See ":help todo" for a list of known problems.

tune2fs(8):
        BUGS
                We haven't found any bugs yet.  That  doesn't  mean  there
                aren't any...

nethack(6):
        BUGS
                Probably infinite.

smem(1):
        BUGS
                My  programs  do  not  have bugs, they just develop random
                features ;-)

asload(1):
        BUGS
                None that I am aware of.

zebra(8):
        BUGS
                zebra  eats  bugs  for breakfast. If you have food for the
                maintainers try <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

:)


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