From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 4 17:52:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 411A410656C4; Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:52:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.allbsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:2f0:104:e001::32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF2418FC14; Sun, 4 Jan 2009 17:52:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Received: from delta.allbsd.org (p2191-ipbf1403funabasi.chiba.ocn.ne.jp [118.7.161.191]) (authenticated bits=128) by mail.allbsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n04HprVD056662; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 02:52:04 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (alph.allbsd.org [192.168.0.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by delta.allbsd.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id n04Hpoi0063280; Mon, 5 Jan 2009 02:51:52 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from hrs@FreeBSD.org) Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:50:58 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20090105.025058.119952164.hrs@allbsd.org> To: danger@FreeBSD.org From: Hiroki Sato In-Reply-To: <287359450.20090104174842@rulez.sk> References: <200901041541.n04Ff1Oh060753@svn.freebsd.org> <20090104155832.GA1257@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <287359450.20090104174842@rulez.sk> X-PGPkey-fingerprint: BDB3 443F A5DD B3D0 A530 FFD7 4F2C D3D8 2793 CF2D X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2 on Emacs 22.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Multipart/Signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="--Security_Multipart(Mon_Jan__5_02_50_58_2009_272)--" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.93.3, clamav-milter version 0.93.3 on gatekeeper.allbsd.org X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0 (mail.allbsd.org [133.31.130.32]); Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:52:04 +0900 (JST) Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org, brueffer@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r186737 - head/sbin/geom/class/virstor X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:52:07 -0000 ----Security_Multipart(Mon_Jan__5_02_50_58_2009_272)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Daniel Gerzo wrote in <287359450.20090104174842@rulez.sk>: da> Hello Christian, da> da> Sunday, January 4, 2009, 4:58:32 PM, you wrote: da> da> > While using .Ex is good, collapsing EXIT STATUS into DIAGNOSTICS is not. da> > EXIT STATUS is a standard section in our manpages and it's orthogonal to da> > DIAGNOSTICS. da> da> I am fine to revert this part, however I have trimmed this section da> just because I didn't see it listed in the PAGE STRUCTURE DOMAIN da> section of the mdoc(7) manual page. da> da> Interestingly, it lists the DIAGNOSTICS section and explicitly da> says that .Ex macro should be used there. Is using .Ex macro really correct?. When geom(1) fails the exit status will be 1, not >0. While many commands whose manual page says so return 1 on an error actually (especially when it is in POSIX), the two are not the same at least. -- | Hiroki SATO ----Security_Multipart(Mon_Jan__5_02_50_58_2009_272)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAklg9wIACgkQTyzT2CeTzy1sHgCfd9qgbE4SwupjlseZtqv/+VOf Ko4An3sUaF9untAygCpryRhsAdPq89v4 =8V/4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Mon_Jan__5_02_50_58_2009_272)----