Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:48:20 -0600 From: Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/14563: Wrong manpage produced by `man 4 fd' Message-ID: <19991213184820.K868@holly.calldei.com> In-Reply-To: <199912130950.BAA02782@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199912130950.BAA02782@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Dec 13, 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > I agree completely, but `man 4 fd' *should* yield a man page that talks > about floppy disk device files... *not* one that talks about UNIX file > descriptors. (You can just trash the one that talks about file descrip- > tors as far as I'm concerned. If people want to know about those, they > should go buy a general book about UNIX/C programming.) Or it could be the other way: You could trash the man page for the disk driver. If people want to know about those, they can buy a Unix book or read the source code. It works both ways. -- |Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> |Customer: A primitive life form at the bottom of the food chain. `---------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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