From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 5 5:12:52 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C782C37B401; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 05:12:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.nsu.ru (mx.nsu.ru [193.124.215.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62D2D43EA9; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 05:12:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danfe@regency.nsu.ru) Received: from drweb by mail.nsu.ru with drweb-scanned (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18VAZu-0006v4-00; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 19:12:34 +0600 Received: from regency.nsu.ru ([193.124.210.26]) by mail.nsu.ru with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18VAZt-0006uL-00; Sun, 05 Jan 2003 19:12:33 +0600 Received: from regency.nsu.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by regency.nsu.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h05DEmH7031512; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 19:14:48 +0600 (NOVT) (envelope-from danfe@regency.nsu.ru) Received: (from danfe@localhost) by regency.nsu.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h05DEk9v031444; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 19:14:46 +0600 (NOVT) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 19:14:46 +0600 From: Alexey Dokuchaev To: Bruce Evans Cc: Tom Rhodes , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5 Message-ID: <20030105131446.GC28054@regency.nsu.ru> References: <20030105082155.GA51107@regency.nsu.ru> <20030105221437.F518-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030105221437.F518-100000@gamplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Envelope-To: bde@zeta.org.au, trhodes@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:31:28PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > 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. Hmm, thanks Bruce for making this clear to me. Section 7 seems like a more appropriate place for all three of them mentioned, indeed. ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message