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 o6RAIGG2027945 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:18:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (1000@localhost [IPv6:::1]) by kerhand.co.uk (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id YMJzeGIh for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:17:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:17:51 +0059 From: Jason McIntyre To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: pending open issues Message-ID: <20100727101815.GD21455@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> References: <4C4E0F7B.4030009@bsd.lv> <20100727071224.GB7946@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> <4C4E996B.5080908@bsd.lv> <20100727092007.GA21455@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> <4C4EA7A0.1040104@bsd.lv> <20100727094102.GC21455@bramka.kerhand.co.uk> <4C4EAEE9.9000106@bsd.lv> 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: <4C4EAEE9.9000106@bsd.lv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 12:03:21PM +0200, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote: > > Ah, my error... I thought you were talking to Free/DragonFly. The > mandoc page hasn't changed for these sections. > > I'm pretty sure that this reasoning is my own, based on the existence of > EXIT STATUS in NetBSD groff manuals. This was probably before I knew of > the balkanisation of mdoc.samples. > > So, from what I gather > > (1) Net uses EXIT STATUS > (2) DragonFly/Free uses DIAGNOSTICS > (3) Open uses DESCRIPTION > (4) GNU/Linux uses chaos > > Is that correct? > no. i can't speak for dragonfly, but netbsd and freebsd both use EXIT VALUES and DIAGNOSTICS. however i cannot find anywhere in their documentation that says EXIT STATUS is valid (mdoc.template perhaps being an exception, but that is not documentation). from what sacha said earlier, it sounds like dragonfly do this too. openbsd use DIAGNOSTICS, but not EXIT STATUS. i am deliberating whether it's worth reinstating EXIT STATUS, but i can;t get anyone authorative from these projects to say what "official policy" is. at least: net: wiz? joerg? free: i have no real contact with freebsd people. i don;t know who to ask. dragon: sacha, who is at least replying to this thread ;) it would be nice if between us we could agree on sth sane. jmc -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv