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If man pages were up to date, this should be the index of chapter 2. I have discover unix with sun in the 90s and I am very nostalgic of the quality of man page
by webreac 9y ago
If man pages were up to date, this should be the index of chapter 2. I have discover unix with sun in the 90s and I am very nostalgic of the quality of man pages. At that time, man pages were complete and up to date. My latest frustration was with the option -m of df command. Chapter 2 should be updated each time a new version of kernel is installed.
- mjw1007 9y agoIt's very strange that adding/updating documentation isn't treated as a basic requirement for a patch that adds to or modifies Linux's public interfaces.
- milcron 9y agoFor the BSDs, incorrect or missing man pages are considered a serious bug.
- dom0 9y agoMan pages aren't even in the kernel tree.
- caf 9y agoFrom Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst: 19) All new userspace interfaces are documented in ``Documentation/ABI/``. See ``Documentation/ABI/README`` for more information. Patches that change userspace interfaces should be CCed to linux-api@vger.kernel.org.
- vog 9y agoIf you want that level of quality, don't use Linux, use instead FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
- valarauca1 9y agoMichael Kerris keeps and up to date reference [1]. Even details _all_ system calls [2]. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ [2] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_2.html http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_2.html