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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