Confirmation - man page filedesc 9 exists in NetBSD and not FreeBSD

2024-04-29 Thread Christopher Davidson
Hi Documentation Team, I am looking through some bugs.freebsd.org entries and came across on in particular that I would like to get some feedback on. BUG ID: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143408 The manual page filedesc 9 exists in NetBSD but does NOT exist in FreeBSD but

Introduction - Chris Davidson

2024-03-12 Thread Christopher Davidson
Hello FreeBSD Documentation Mailing list, My name is Chris Davidson, a new convert to the FreeBSD ecosystem as of December 2023. As I have been getting familiar with the platform through manual pages and the vast internet (www.freebsd.org) and other sites. I would like

Question relationship of builting(1) and functions refrenced through .Xr

2024-03-06 Thread Christopher Davidson
Hi Documentation Team, I am investigating some updates to manual pages and came across a “self referencing” warning from the mandoc -Tlint utility, on entries associated with the builtin(1) manual page. Some examples of this self referencing are: done(1), false(1), etc.. in particular

Re: Question relationship of builting(1) and functions refrenced through .Xr

2024-03-08 Thread Christopher Davidson
Hi Alexander, That does give some clarity and do appreciate it. It looks like info(1) needs to go as a link.. I will submit a pull request. But this brings me to a larger question/possible issue: Is there a way to coordinate manual page updates? I see a lot of effort and guidance on the