From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Mar 7 12:10:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8166737B41F for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g27KA3I79251; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203072010.g27KA3I79251@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Brooks Davis Subject: Re: docs/35642: lo(4) page maybe should document optional "count". Reply-To: Brooks Davis Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/35642; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Brooks Davis To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/35642: lo(4) page maybe should document optional "count". Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 12:06:40 -0800 On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 11:48:25AM -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is an enhancement request or a bug, but the > /sys/net/if_loop.c's "loopattach" function gives a strong hint that the > synopsis of the lo(4) man page could (or should?) be changed from > pseudo-device loop > to > pseudo-device loop [ count ] > like the ppp pseudo-device has. I'd rather this wasn't. This syntax is depricated and will not work in 5.0 as of Monday. -- Brooks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message