Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:31:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: style(1) man-page !? (was Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/i4b/isdnd main.c ...) Message-ID: <19990627123141.Z427@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990627024506.A12925@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 02:45:06AM %2B0100 References: <199906260604.AAA00680@harmony.village.org> <m10xnip-0000fgC@hcswork.hcs.de> <19990627100310.S427@freebie.lemis.com> <19990627024506.A12925@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 2:45:06 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Saturday, 26 June 1999 at 10:21:59 +0200, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: >> >>> To get this to a productive end, i' willing to start to write a man-page >>> to try to describe FreeBSD's preferred getopt style. >>> >>> What should its name be, style(1) ? >> >> There used to be a program style(1). It was for a very different >> purpose. I'm attaching the page from 2.11BSD. >> >> Considering this is a programming thing, I'd think that style(3) would >> make more sense. > > uh.... I may be being stupid here, but what's wrong with adding > this to the already existing style(9) page, which already has a bit > about getopt? That's the first place I'd look for FreeBSD code style > recommendations. Well, section 9 is for kernel code. But as others have observed, the correct place for this particular observation is in getopt(3). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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