Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 07:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/30442: remove broken referemce to gettime(9) from time(9) manpage Message-ID: <200109091440.f89Ee2W55916@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/30442; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/30442: remove broken referemce to gettime(9) from time(9) manpage Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 07:37:47 -0700 Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> wrote: > >Description: > > The time(9) manpage references a non existent gettime(9) manpage. > Things have also changed a bit with time keeping, and this is probably > a bit out of date. There is no gettime() function now. I could only > find clock_gettime() in sys/kern/kern_time.c that seems similar to > what time(9) describes that gettime() would do. > > >How-To-Repeat: > > Err, read the manpage? It says that gettime() can be used, but > all I could find in the kernel sources was clock_gettime(); this > is one that seems similar and has no manpage too :-/ I think the right thing to do would be to update the man page not to talk about functions that don't exist rather than removing gettime(9) from SEE ALSO. It is further pointless because the rest of the man page references gettime(9), so you wouldn't have fixed anything--there would still be references to man pages that don't exist. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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