Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 02:02:49 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM> To: Bruce Evans <bde@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 sleep.9 Message-ID: <199704111802.CAA11661@spinner.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:49:58 MST." <199704111749.KAA05966@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Bruce Evans wrote: > bde 97/04/11 10:49:57 > sleep() should be nuked some more, e.g., this man page should not be > named after a nonexistent function. > > Revision Changes Path > 1.9 +1 -4 src/share/man/man9/sleep.9 Probably what we could do is have a porting.9 that's MLINKED to the various function names that are common elsewhere and give some hints about how it's done on freebsd instead and what the porting implications are. That should make it less painful for converting sysv and OtherBSD drivers. In the sleep(9) case, it could be something like "see tsleep(9), use id string is a debugging aid - use whatever you like, either give a timeout of 0 (infinite), or convert timeout/sleep pairs to use the timeout that's built in to tsleep". This is something that could grow with time.. Unless this would be better in the handbook. (I for one find the handbook extremely inconvenient and much prefer man pages, especially for this sort of thing.. And I know even less sgml than *roff/man/mdoc) Cheers, -Peter
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