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Date:      Fri, 30 Jul 1999 05:57:33 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Mike Pritchard <mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        mpp@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys getdents.2
Message-ID:  <199907301057.FAA05826@mpp.pro-ns.net>
In-Reply-To: <199907301034.UAA03693@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jul 30, 1999 08:34:19 pm"

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> They're not identical.  getdirentries() has an extra basep arg and has
> the wrong type for the size arg.  I don't know why NetBSD dropped the
> basep arg.

Oops, missed that.
  
> Diffing the man pages shows some bugs in getdents.2:
> - missing include in synopsys
> - wrong types for d_fileno, etc.
> - d_type not documented (intentional?)
> - spelling error gtdents

All reasons I haven't added it to the makefile yet.

> - non-bug ".Bl -tag -width Er".  Is this better?

Yes, ".Bl -tag -width Er" is preferred.

> - missing/extra docs for EINVAL
> - xrefs not sorted

I think I might just start over with our getdirentries man page.
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@FreeBSD.ORG or mpp@mpp.pro-ns.net


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