From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 13:32:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F8D37B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:32:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53.attbi.com [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29F8343ED1 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:32:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by rwcrmhc53.attbi.com (rwcrmhc53) with ESMTP id <200212132132410530040h7ue>; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 21:32:41 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBDLdL2J000956; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:39:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gBDLdFFs000953; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:39:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: "Marcus L. Reid" , freebsd-questions@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: layered file systems ... References: <20021213095811.A13175-100000@hub.org> <20021213151455.GD92171@blazingdot.com> <20021213113108.B13175-100000@hub.org> <20021213162521.GA96011@blazingdot.com> <20021213133130.S13175-100000@hub.org> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 13 Dec 2002 13:39:15 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20021213133130.S13175-100000@hub.org> Message-ID: <8lel8lk398.l8l@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Marc G. Fournier" writes: > That's kinda what I'm wondering ... is it just that nobody has updated the > man page since '94 ... from looking at the sources, ther have been mods to > it since then: If you're referring to the manpage date which gets displayed with the manpage, you can fugidaboudit; according to the "mdoc" manpage, it's the "date of authorship", which most read with an implied "original". I complained to the doc people that this policy makes FreeBSD stuff look unmaintained to casual users (at least). You can guess the response. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message