Re: mdoc section ordering

["Ulrich Spörlein" <uqs@spoerlein.net>]

On Tue, 11.05.2010 at 16:42:53 +0059, Jason McIntyre wrote:
> 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?

I'm fine with that, only then mandoc should stop "enforcing" this
ordering. It's perfectly fine with me!

Kristaps, what to you think?

Regards,
Uli
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