Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 00:03:10 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/12377: doc patch for login_cap. Message-ID: <19990708000310.A37390@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <93215.931241186@axl.noc.iafrica.com>; from Sheldon Hearn on Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 08:06:26AM %2B0200 References: <19990705235617.T71138@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> <93215.931241186@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 08:06:26AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jul 1999 23:56:17 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote:
> > I'm unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the login_cap system. Could
> > someone who is versed in it please take a look at this PR (text included)
> > and let me know whether or not the suggested patch is correct.
>
> Quite often, we receive requests to improve documentation that are born
> out of a failure to read that documentation correctly. I think this PR
> might be one of those cases. Have a look at the login_cap(3) manpage,
> into which I suspect the submitter may not have dug deeply enough:
I have done. As far as I can tell, the submitter is saying "Yes, the
information I was looking for was in the manual page, but it (specifically,
that the "root" account doesn't use the "default" entry) is buried as
a throw away comment at the end of a long paragraph."
The patch in the PR just rewords the paragraph slightly to make this a
little more obvious for the next person to come along.
I've got no objection to the patch itself, as (IMHO) it does make the
para read a little more clearly. If no one objects that it's actually
changing the intent of the paragraph then I'll commit it soonish.
N
--
[intentional self-reference] can be easily accommodated using a blessed,
non-self-referential dummy head-node whose own object destructor severs
the links.
-- Tom Christiansen in <375143b5@cs.colorado.edu>
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