Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 01:07:15 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: chris@calldei.com, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/14563: Wrong manpage produced by `man 4 fd' Message-ID: <19991216010715.F66677@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <11294.945134271@monkeys.com>; from Ronald F. Guilmette on Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 05:17:51PM -0800 References: <19991213184820.K868@holly.calldei.com> <11294.945134271@monkeys.com>
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On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 05:17:51PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> The tradition... on SySV at least... not sure about *BSD... is that data
> structures that are ``basic'' and/or common to a whole group of libc
> routines and/or kernel calls are documented in intro(2) or intro(3).
> Man pages for kernel functions are in Section 2, man pages for ordinary
> libc functions are in Section 3, and device files have man pages in
> Section 4.
>
> A UNIX file descriptor is not a device type _or_ a device file.
Yeah, but fd(4) isn't talking about file descriptors in general, but is
talking about the specific case of accessing file descriptors through
their entry in the /dev/fd/ directory.
As such, the text of fd(4) is appropriately placed.
N
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