From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Apr 3 1:50: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D3C37B718 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 01:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f338o5f19666; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 01:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 01:50:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200104030850.f338o5f19666@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Mike Bristow Subject: Re: docs/26286: format string warnings in man pages. Reply-To: Mike Bristow Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/26286; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mike Bristow To: Dima Dorfman Cc: mike@urgle.com, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/26286: format string warnings in man pages. Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 09:48:38 +0100 On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:38:26PM -0700, Dima Dorfman wrote: > The idea behind this is great, but I don't really like how the above > text is duplicated everywhere. [ snip beginings of a vague idea ;-) ] I see what you mean, and I agree to an extent (I'm not to sure if programmers will follow the cross reference, though. Hmm. It's difficult to get the balance between shoving info down peoples throat, and repeating yourself so often it gets boring). Perhaps style(9) is the right place to mention it in detail. Hmm. I'll try and work something up along those lines, and see what it looks like. Thanks for the feedback! -- Mike Bristow, seebitwopie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message