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Date:      Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:29:24 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r284198 - head/bin/ls
Message-ID:  <20150614012924.GA2965@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAG=rPVfrM9SnqRU-g=L6Y39GM2yEd%2Bt6=UFhggauu0s3HJvpYw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 05:40:59PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Steve Kargl <
> sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Given the horrid state of the manpages, which I showed
> > in March, one can only wonder about the internals of
> > the libxo itself.
> >
> 
> Are you talking about this comment you made?
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-March/054899.html
> 
> I can't make heads or tails of what you wrote, other than you seemed very
> angry.
> 

I wasn't very angry.  I'm simply pointing out that the libxo
manpages, which should document what libxo is/does, are 
horrible documentation.  If the quality of the manpages 
matches the quality of library, and the brokeness that
we have been witnesses bears this out, should be questioned.

% cd src/contrib/libxo/libxo
% grep Nd *.3 | grep formatted
xo_attr.3:.Nd emit formatted output based on format string and arguments
xo_create.3:.Nd emit formatted output based on format string and arguments
xo_emit.3:.Nd emit formatted output based on format string and arguments
xo_finish.3:.Nd emit formatted output based on format string and arguments
xo_flush.3:.Nd emit formatted output based on format string and arguments
xo_open_list.3:.Nd emit formatted output based on format string and arguments
xo_set_allocator.3:.Nd emit formatted output based on format string and arguments
xo_set_flags.3:.Nd emit formatted output based on format string and arguments
xo_set_info.3:.Nd emit formatted output based on format string and arguments
xo_set_style.3:.Nd emit formatted output based on format string and arguments
xo_set_writer.3:.Nd emit formatted output based on format string and arguments

Do you really believe that the Nd entries for these manpages are
correct?

-- 
Steve



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