Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:15:48 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: danfe@nsu.ru, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5 Message-ID: <20030105131548.40209821.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030105221437.F518-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20030105082155.GA51107@regency.nsu.ru> <20030105221437.F518-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:31:28 +1100 (EST) Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:44:44PM -0800, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > > trhodes 2002/12/29 20:44:44 PST > > > > > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > > > share/man/man5 Makefile > > > Added files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > > > share/man/man5 msdos.5 > > > Log: > > > Add an msdos file system driver manual page to RELENG_4. > > > > Am I missing something, but I've always thought that section 5 of > > manpages was for various FreeBSD files formats. Should not this go > > to section 4 (kernel interfaces) instead? > > Not quite. Section 4 is for devices and device drivers. File systems > aren't devices or device drivers. ffs.7 was originally in section 4, > but was moved to a less wrong place. msdosfs.5 belongs with ffs.7. > > Section 5 has the following other misplaced things related to file > systems: > > devfs.5, fdescfs.5: like msdosfs.5 (?) > > fs.5: actually does document a file format, namely the superblock > format > for 10-year old versions of ffs. This belongs in an Attic. The > non-rotted version is in ffs/fs.h. > > procfs.5: this is almost correctly placed, since it describes the > format > of procfs's dirctory tree and the format of some of procfs's > irregular regular files. > > Bruce > > Perhaps instead of Attic, we clean up the rot? -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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