Jan Schaumann <jscha...@netmeister.org> writes: > Valery Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru> wrote: >> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 22:33:17 +0000, Jan Schaumann wrote: > >> > Briefly describe the 'arch' and 'nodump' flags. >> >> What makes them special and why is that these two have to be described >> here and not in chflags(2), where the flags are actually defined? > > Unlike the other flags, they are not intuitive. As > they are exposed to the end-user (versus the > programmer), it seems useful to describe them in > section 1 of the manual pages.
FWIW, I agree that the flags are user-facing rather than (only) programmer-facing, and thus should be described in a 1/8 manpage vs only a 2 manpage.
