Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 22:31:28 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru> Cc: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5 Message-ID: <20030105221437.F518-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20030105082155.GA51107@regency.nsu.ru>
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 08:44:44PM -0800, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> > trhodes 2002/12/29 20:44:44 PST
> >
> > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4)
> > share/man/man5 Makefile
> > Added files: (Branch: RELENG_4)
> > share/man/man5 msdos.5
> > Log:
> > Add an msdos file system driver manual page to RELENG_4.
>
> Am I missing something, but I've always thought that section 5 of
> manpages was for various FreeBSD files formats. Should not this go to
> section 4 (kernel interfaces) instead?
Not quite. Section 4 is for devices and device drivers. File systems
aren't devices or device drivers. ffs.7 was originally in section 4,
but was moved to a less wrong place. msdosfs.5 belongs with ffs.7.
Section 5 has the following other misplaced things related to file
systems:
devfs.5, fdescfs.5: like msdosfs.5 (?)
fs.5: actually does document a file format, namely the superblock format
for 10-year old versions of ffs. This belongs in an Attic. The
non-rotted version is in ffs/fs.h.
procfs.5: this is almost correctly placed, since it describes the format
of procfs's dirctory tree and the format of some of procfs's
irregular regular files.
Bruce
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