Re: MAN pages authoritativeness
John Nielsen writes: > > They state that the MAN pages are authoritative in OpenBSD, "... In > > OpenBSD, the UNIX manual pages are considered authoritative. If a > > program or function call does not behave exactly as the manual > > describes, this is considered a bug" > > > > I was just curious to know if this was also true in FreeBSD. > > In my experience, yes. AFAIK having detailed, accurate man pages > for everything in the base system has always been a design goal. > And if I find something that doesn't work like the manpage > describes, then I submit a bug report. Sometimes the bug is with > the manpage, though. :) "Goal" being the operative word. A very quick look at open doc PRs suggests there could be as many as 50 PRs about man pages. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: MAN pages authoritativeness
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 06:18, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > I just read the InformIT article on OpenBSD 3.9, available here: > http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=468055&f1=rss&rl=1 > > They state that the MAN pages are authoritative in OpenBSD, "... In > OpenBSD, the UNIX manual pages are considered authoritative. If a > program or function call does not behave exactly as the manual > describes, this is considered a bug" > > I was just curious to know if this was also true in FreeBSD. In my experience, yes. AFAIK having detailed, accurate man pages for everything in the base system has always been a design goal. And if I find something that doesn't work like the manpage describes, then I submit a bug report. Sometimes the bug is with the manpage, though. :) JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
