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Date:      Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:54:08 +0300
From:      "Luchesar V. ILIEV" <luchesar.iliev@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Missing "-l" option from pw(8) USER section
Message-ID:  <4E985B20.9040703@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E9767E4.8070000@gmail.com>
References:  <4E9767E4.8070000@gmail.com>

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On 14/10/2011 01:36, Luchesar V. ILIEV wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Apologies if that has been discussed before; the search didn't
> yield anything useful, but I might have missed something.
> 
> I noticed today that the "-l" option is missing from pw.8 man page,
> at least in HEAD, stable/9 and stable/8. The option is mentioned in
> the SYNOPSIS, but there's no information about it in the USER
> OPTIONS section, unlike the respective option in GROUP OPTIONS.
> 
> I went briefly through both pw.8's and pw.c's history, but could
> not find any clues. The option itself is working as expected, and
> pw.c's short help also mentions it, so I assume it somehow got
> overlooked, rather than being intentionally omitted.
> 
> If that's indeed the case, I'm attaching a dirty patch, but please 
> bear in mind that I've never worked with roff documents before, so 
> don't get too mad at me if it's not quite all right (it seemed to 
> produce a fine output in man(1), at least).
> 
> Cheers, Luchesar
> 
> P.S. I inserted the information between the userdel and usershow 
> notes, because that seems to be the order in SYNOPSIS. The text
> itself is shamelessly stolen from the GROUP OPTIONS section; it's
> pretty brief, but probably enough. I guess the whole page might
> benefit from some examples, but that's obviously a separate topic
> for discussion.
> 

I just realized it might be better to simply open a PR...

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=161588

Cheers,
Luchesar



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