cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys pathconf.2

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 18:38:11 -0400, Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org> said:

> Not to sound like Ruslan, but:

> .It Li _PC_NO_TRUNC
> Always returns 1.
> .Po Included to support software written for previous editions of
> .Tn POSIX . Pc

> is more mdoc(7) friendly.  :)

Since when?  Just because there is a macro that emits a particular
character does not mean that one should always use the macro rather
than the character.  .Pq/Po/Pc are there for when you need parsed
arguments (e.g., ".Pq Li FOO"), not for insertion into text at
random.  There's a reason why mdoc(7) goes to the lengths it does to
recognize punctuation.

-GAWollman