MAN pages authoritativeness

Pietro Cerutti pietro.cerutti at gmail.com
Tue May 2 10:25:36 UTC 2006


Hi list,
just a quick question:

I just read the InformIT article on OpenBSD 3.9, available here:
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=468055&f1=rss&rl=1

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.

Thanx, regards

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Pietro Cerutti
<pietro.cerutti at gmail.com>


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