Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 23:24:39 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>, Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 Makefile msdos.5 Message-ID: <20030107231058.W8096-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20030106230542.B30454@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Tony Finch wrote: > On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 10:31:28PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > Not quite. Section 4 is for devices and device drivers. File systems > > aren't devices or device drivers. ffs.7 was originally in section 4, > > but was moved to a less wrong place. msdosfs.5 belongs with ffs.7. > > The documented place for finding filesystem documentation is in the > appropriate mount_foofs manual page. The mount(2) manual says: > > By convention filesystem manual > pages are named by prefixing ``mount_'' to the name of the filesystem as > returned by lsvfs(1). Thus the NFS filesystem is described by the > mount_nfs(8) manual page. This doesn't seem to be good, or even correct for one example give (mount_nfs(8)). mount_nfs(8) only has user interface details like it should. It has nothing about the args struct, which what the above is initially about. nfs_args is referenced just once in /usr/share/man (in mount.2) but not described. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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