Klemens Nanni <[email protected]> wrote: > rarpd(8) is small enough where my impression is that refining it a > little would be good, but it quickly comes down to personal taste.
And I continue to disagree. Another example of the same pattern is ifconfig. Here you will see it is not documented that [-a] is incompatible with [interface], but the program does actually enforce it (refuses to act). Even later in the man page, this is not actually described. Yet noone is dying from this. The synopsis / usage language simply cannot describe this, and I argue that it SHOULD NOT describe the situation, because past attempts at being complete precise have made the SYNOPSIS / usage cluttered, and thus less valuable to the users. Another way of looking at it is that the grammer is permissive, rather than proscriptive. So I suggest you get over it.
