Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 10:27:38 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MAN pages authoritativeness Message-ID: <17495.27738.747676.78293@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <200605020928.31886.lists@jnielsen.net> References: <e572718c0605020318i5175e90u127feefff4cf28e9@mail.gmail.com> <200605020928.31886.lists@jnielsen.net>
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John Nielsen writes: > > They state that the MAN pages are authoritative in OpenBSD, "... In > > OpenBSD, the UNIX manual pages are considered authoritative. If a > > program or function call does not behave exactly as the manual > > describes, this is considered a bug...." > > > > I was just curious to know if this was also true in FreeBSD. > > In my experience, yes. AFAIK having detailed, accurate man pages > for everything in the base system has always been a design goal. > And if I find something that doesn't work like the manpage > describes, then I submit a bug report. Sometimes the bug is with > the manpage, though. :) "Goal" being the operative word. A very quick look at open doc PRs suggests there could be as many as 50 PRs about man pages. Robert Huff
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