From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jun 22 9:15:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587A937B70A for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:15:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@glue.umd.edu) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (root@z.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.71]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e5MGFim18772; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:15:44 -0400 (EDT) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA22474; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:15:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA22470; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:15:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: z.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:15:43 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Improving STANDARDS section of the manual domain In-Reply-To: <43674.961682800@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > I'm focusing predominantly on POSIX, SUSv2 and ISO IEC 9899:1999 for > this pass at the manual pages. I like the idea of having all the > standards-related information in one section, which programmers (whether > using C or the shell) can flip to and rely on. It would be nice to see SVID and a "BSD" spec added too. Often, when developing I just need it to run on both FreeBSD and NetBSD and occasionally, there are differences. With Apple having gone their own way, it is going to get complicated. Setting the BSD standard at 4.3BSD or something would be doable but then you run into problems with everyone going their own way with BSD. But SVID should be included. :) Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message