From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat May 25 02:00:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA21187 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 25 May 1996 02:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA21169; Sat, 25 May 1996 02:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 02:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199605250900.CAA21169@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: J Wunsch Subject: Re: docs/1249: incorrect manpages Reply-To: J Wunsch Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR docs/1249; it has been noted by GNATS. From: J Wunsch To: coredump@nervosa.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/1249: incorrect manpages Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 10:23:35 +0200 (MET DST) As Chris J. Layne wrote: > Some manpages list the OS as NetBSD when it should be FreeBSD > > .\" $NetBSD: msgctl.2,v 1.1 1995/10/16 23:49:15 jtc Exp $ > .\" This product includes software developed for the NetBSD Project > .Os NetBSD The first two occurences are right -- these man pages (or even entire programs, as for lint(1)) have been taken from NetBSD. So the $NetBSD$ and the copyright is ok. For the .Os macro -- it's IMHO best to omit the system name unless some tool/man page/etc. is very specific for a particular system. Neither the SysV msg stuff nor lint are. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)