From owner-cvs-all Sat Jun 26 20: 1:54 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65AB614CC8; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 20:01:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA11587; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:31:44 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA85842; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:31:42 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:31:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ben Smithurst Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: style(1) man-page !? (was Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/i4b/isdnd main.c ...) Message-ID: <19990627123141.Z427@freebie.lemis.com> References: <199906260604.AAA00680@harmony.village.org> <19990627100310.S427@freebie.lemis.com> <19990627024506.A12925@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990627024506.A12925@rainbow5.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 02:45:06AM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sunday, 27 June 1999 at 2:45:06 +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Saturday, 26 June 1999 at 10:21:59 +0200, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: >> >>> To get this to a productive end, i' willing to start to write a man-page >>> to try to describe FreeBSD's preferred getopt style. >>> >>> What should its name be, style(1) ? >> >> There used to be a program style(1). It was for a very different >> purpose. I'm attaching the page from 2.11BSD. >> >> Considering this is a programming thing, I'd think that style(3) would >> make more sense. > > uh.... I may be being stupid here, but what's wrong with adding > this to the already existing style(9) page, which already has a bit > about getopt? That's the first place I'd look for FreeBSD code style > recommendations. Well, section 9 is for kernel code. But as others have observed, the correct place for this particular observation is in getopt(3). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message