From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 14 15:55:07 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BBFD106566B for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:55:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from luchesar.iliev@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ey0-f182.google.com (mail-ey0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E224F8FC12 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyd10 with SMTP id 10so1600954eyd.13 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:55:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:disposition-notification-to:date:from:user-agent :mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version :openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wpcFC+eOgeMk+falehfCE0XKFMqcN3NYLRn1R7lQtRA=; b=vA0DM5+2Pj+OZQ19YZknQlSVN1BlXT6B8KnPWAdkGCp9o39OL7+5vDYKkqkkZsNR0x a1/3539sXWx2bX0TY70zcpxs/c2F2IUfTENCCQSlw9XOxhTuikd5YDsJ1NZJXANF4jtN /bvf4rC7Ae8U/7ir2IwEuXsddYz7cd1z+sVPk= Received: by 10.223.75.25 with SMTP id w25mr5039764faj.15.1318607653561; Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [79.124.93.41] ([79.124.93.41]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w14sm4388031fae.13.2011.10.14.08.54.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E985B20.9040703@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:54:08 +0300 From: "Luchesar V. ILIEV" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111002 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org References: <4E9767E4.8070000@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E9767E4.8070000@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=9A1FEEFF; url=https://cert.acad.bg/pgp-keys/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Missing "-l" option from pw(8) USER section X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:55:07 -0000 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