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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:34:07 +0200
From:      "Piotr P. Stefaniak" <pstef@freebsd.org>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Cc:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: c2a39987e6f1 - main - fortune/freebsd-tips: Add a few fortunes
Message-ID:  <20210330183407.GA36170@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <0100017884527dea-3cdb0c79-18e2-4a99-9287-fba6900a5614-000000@email.amazonses.com>
References:  <202103301738.12UHcUdx092361@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20210330175223.GA12429@FreeBSD.org> <0100017884527dea-3cdb0c79-18e2-4a99-9287-fba6900a5614-000000@email.amazonses.com>

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On 2021-03-30 18:08:22, Colin Percival wrote:
>On 3/30/21 10:52 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 05:38:30PM +0000, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen wrote:
>>> commit c2a39987e6f1dcd07aa03cb598675f1ca4662a1c
>>> Author:     Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup@FreeBSD.org>
>>> ...
>>> +FreeBSDs ps can create a dependency tree based on parent/child relationships
>>> +between processes, like this:
>>
>> You've probably meant "FreeBSD's ps(1)", but on a larger scale, do we
>> really need to have random quotes of manpages' EXAMPLES in the quotes?

Manual pages are often good as a reference, when you know what you're
looking for or where to look, but they aren't great for discovery.
I don't believe we have a good apropos(1).

>Speaking as someone who has used FreeBSD for 20 years but didn't know about
>this functionality (and appreciates having it pointed out): Yes please!

I included some potentially interesting usage in commit message for
ca8c0d5e811048ad67d0955642c5b486e9c0f3d2

Piotr



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