On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 10:06:59AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Cameron,
> 
> Cameron Katri wrote on Sun, Oct 03, 2021 at 07:16:30PM -0400:
> 
> > Well this is a very niche use case, but on FreeBSD they patch msec.in
> > to say "FreeBSD General Commands Manual" etc.
> 
> I think that patching is ill-advised.  In manual pages, the operating
> system name is supposed to be printed in the footer line (lower left
> corner), not in the header line.   One consequence of the FreeBSD
> patching is that if you format manual pages of another operating system
> on FreeBSD, the header line will always include the misleading string
> "FreeBSD" anyway, and as you observed, there is no way to tell mandoc
> to leave it out.
> 
> The string in the footer line, on the other hand, defaults to uname(3),
> which already includes "FreeBSD" by default, and can be overridden
> both by the "-I os=" option on the command line and by the .Os macro
> in the manual page.
> 
> The file msec.in does not exist for the purpose of branding that
> FreeBSD abuses it for, but to accomodate differing volume conventions
> of operating systems.  For example, illumos has traditionally been
> using the System V convention that includes
> 

I will try and get this patch removed from FreeBSD, which I agree is a
much better solution.

- Cameron Katri

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