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Date:      Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:24:39 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5
Message-ID:  <20030107231058.W8096-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030106230542.B30454@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Tony Finch wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:31:28PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> The documented place for finding filesystem documentation is in the
> appropriate mount_foofs manual page. The mount(2) manual says:
>
>                                           By convention filesystem manual
>      pages are named by prefixing ``mount_'' to the name of the filesystem as
>      returned by lsvfs(1).  Thus the NFS filesystem is described by the
>      mount_nfs(8) manual page.

This doesn't seem to be good, or even correct for one example give
(mount_nfs(8)).  mount_nfs(8) only has user interface details like it
should.  It has nothing about the args struct, which what the above
is initially about.  nfs_args is referenced just once in /usr/share/man
(in mount.2) but not described.

Bruce


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