From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from kerhand.co.uk (_smtpd@82-69-137-214.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.137.214]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o4BBt44q021265 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 05:55:04 -0600 (MDT) Received: from localhost (1000@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by kerhand.co.uk (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 1273592597.Ln4xLePBftv8hdOQ for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 16:42:53 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 16:42:53 +0059 From: Jason McIntyre To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: mdoc section ordering Message-ID: <20100511154317.GB24992@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> References: <20100511115233.GV88504@acme.spoerlein.net> <20100511134542.GA24992@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> <20100511145711.GW88504@acme.spoerlein.net> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100511145711.GW88504@acme.spoerlein.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 04:57:11PM +0200, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote: > > To clarify, none of these sections shall become mandatory. It's just the > ordering that mandoc -Tlint would complain about iff such a section > exist. > ah, sorry, i misunderstood then. so yeah, it makes no difference to us. > I did a quick grep over the OpenBSD tree and it seems that EXIT STATUS > isn't really used at all, and where it is used the ordering is not > impacted as there are no RETURN VALUES, ENVIRONMENT or FILES sections > nearby. > > NetBSD however has a couple of pages where FILES or ENVIRONMENT come > after EXIT STATUS and that means one of NetBSD or FreeBSD would need to > change a couple of pages. > as far as i know, EXIT STATUS is not even a standard section header. for example, the groff_mdoc.7 page that comes with the latest groff does not list it. so maybe there is no issue, and you shouldn;t worry about where it's put? jmc -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv