Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:00:05 -0800 (PST) From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/35942: at(1) manual doesn't describe at.allow and at.deny formats. Message-ID: <200203172100.g2HL05I39949@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/35942; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/35942: at(1) manual doesn't describe at.allow and at.deny formats.
Date: 17 Mar 2002 12:54:09 -0800
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> writes:
Much of what you added is already explained in the manual in a less
ambiguous manner. I fear that your addition (especially for "deny")
will confuse some readers. Please excuse my bluntness.
Better to limit your addition to the format of the file, which in your
patch is "one per line". And since users often make guesses about what
might be allowed, namely leading or trailing whitespace and comments, it
should "head off" failed experiments by being explicit on those topics.
I haven't looked at the code and so won't propose wording, but for the
crontab(1)'s manual, my patch contained
In these two files, a user is considered to be listed only if the
user name has no blank or other characters before it on its line and
a newline character immediately after the name, even at the end of
the file. Other lines are ignored and may be used for comments.
This was discussed back in October along with discussion of changing the
program's end-of-file behavior, but I don't see any changes in the 4.5
crontab manual and I do see that users see it dated "1993"; both bad
"PR", in one sense or another. :)
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