Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 07:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/28915: inconsistency in a man page (versus KERNEL config) Message-ID: <200107131450.f6DEo3409292@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/28915; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/28915: inconsistency in a man page (versus KERNEL config) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 07:49:38 -0700 Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> writes: > >Description: > the man page for mkfifo(2) says : > -------------- > ERRORS > Mkfifo() will fail and no fifo will be created if: > > [ENOTSUP] The kernel has not been configured to support fifo's. > -------------- > > I do not see any FIFO config option in the LINT kernel config file, > thus the man page seems to be wrong : it is not possible to compile > a FreeBSD kernel without FIFO's Man pages for calls that are defined by some standard (in this case, by POSIX.2) should document all allowed error returns even if they aren't possible in FreeBSD today. This allows program authors to write portable code; portable not only across platforms, but across different versions of FreeBSD (who's to say there won't be a kernel option for this tomorrow?). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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