svn commit: r319080 - head/share/man/man5

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net
Mon May 29 18:16:19 UTC 2017


> On 0528T2008, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> > > Author: trasz
> > > Date: Sun May 28 18:09:49 2017
> > > New Revision: 319080
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/319080
> > > 
> > > Log:
> > >   Fix Xrs; they were pointing to the wrong section.
> > >   
> > >   MFC after:	2 weeks
> > > 
> > > Modified:
> > >   head/share/man/man5/mount.conf.5
> > > 
> > > Modified: head/share/man/man5/mount.conf.5
> > > ==============================================================================
> > > --- head/share/man/man5/mount.conf.5	Sun May 28 18:07:53 2017	(r319079)
> > > +++ head/share/man/man5/mount.conf.5	Sun May 28 18:09:49 2017	(r319080)
> > > @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ The logic for this is in
> > >  .Fn vfs_mountroot_conf0 .
> > >  .It
> > >  The kernel will first mount
> > > -.Xr devfs 8
> > > +.Xr devfs 5
> > >  as the root file system.
> > 
> > Um, no, devfs(8) is the command, devfs(5) is the config
> > file that descripts what devfs(8) well do.  This sentence
> > does read very well to me:
> > The kernel will first mount devfs(8) as the root file system?
> > Neither devfs(8) or (5) is a file system one is a utility
> > command and the other is a config file.
> 
> Erm, no - devfs(5) is the filesystem man page.  The config file
> is devfs.rules(5).
> 
> Yeah, it's kind of weird that filesystems are in section 5.

Yes, ignore me, sorry for the noise.  I realized that we had
devfs(5) and devfs.rules(5) after I sent this.  And yes,
filesystems being in 5 is odd, but appears to be the best
(for some very small value of best) fit.


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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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