git: c2a39987e6f1 - main - fortune/freebsd-tips: Add a few fortunes

Piotr P. Stefaniak pstef at freebsd.org
Tue Mar 30 18:34:07 UTC 2021


On 2021-03-30 18:08:22, Colin Percival wrote:
>On 3/30/21 10:52 AM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 05:38:30PM +0000, Daniel Ebdrup Jensen wrote:
>>> commit c2a39987e6f1dcd07aa03cb598675f1ca4662a1c
>>> Author:     Daniel Ebdrup Jensen <debdrup at FreeBSD.org>
>>> ...
>>> +FreeBSDs ps can create a dependency tree based on parent/child relationships
>>> +between processes, like this:
>>
>> You've probably meant "FreeBSD's ps(1)", but on a larger scale, do we
>> really need to have random quotes of manpages' EXAMPLES in the quotes?

Manual pages are often good as a reference, when you know what you're
looking for or where to look, but they aren't great for discovery.
I don't believe we have a good apropos(1).

>Speaking as someone who has used FreeBSD for 20 years but didn't know about
>this functionality (and appreciates having it pointed out): Yes please!

I included some potentially interesting usage in commit message for
ca8c0d5e811048ad67d0955642c5b486e9c0f3d2

Piotr


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