A question about a man page patch

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Fri May 9 22:19:22 UTC 2008


On Thu, 8 May 2008 17:39:56 -0400, "Marc Spitzer" <mspitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was looking at the sysconf man,from head, page and it did not
> accurately reflect the function, many things were not mentioned.  I am
> willing to fix the ones I know or can figure out quickly, a small
> subset probably, for the rest is it ok to have entries like this in
> the man page:
>
>     _SC_READER_WRITER_LOCKS
>             FIX ME
>
>     _SC_REALTIME_SIGNALS
>             FIX ME
>
>     _SC_REGEXP
>             FIX ME
>
>     _SC_RTSIG_MAX
>             FIX ME
>
> My thought here is at least it is documented to exist, and perhaps it
> will encourage people to fix it.

That's a fairly good idea.  If you have trouble with the manpage
_source_ syntax, please feel free to gather the list of _SC_XXX
constants, and email me (keramida at FreeBSD.org) and the freebsd-doc
mailing list (freebsd-doc at FreeBSD.org).

Giorgos



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