From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: pending open issues
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:32:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C4EA7A0.1040104@bsd.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100727092007.GA21455@bramka.kerhand.co.uk>
>>> ps kristaps, did you spot the mail where i asked about why EXIT STATUS
>>> was being recommended (in mdoc.7)? i need to know where that comes from...
>> Jason (note this is cross-posted to discuss@),
>>
>> EXIT STATUS comes from NetBSD groff's mdoc.template:
>>
>> .\" This next request is for sections 1 and 8 exit statuses only.
>> .\" .Sh EXIT STATUS
>>
>> If this is something they use a lot (Joerg?), then it needs to stay in
>> with a specific note that NetBSD conventionally uses EXIT STATUS, whilst
>> OpenBSD puts the `Ex -std' on the final line of the DESCRIPTION. Not
>> sure about FreeBSD and DragonFly. Comments?
>>
>
> ok. but your mdoc(7) page states this:
>
> EXIT STATUS
> Command exit status for section 1, 6, and 8 manuals. This
> section is the dual of RETURN VALUES, which is used for
> functions. Historically, this information was described
> in DIAGNOSTICS, a practise that is now discouraged.
I think you're looking at mandoc's old EXIT STATUS documentation...
The on-line manuals for DragonFly and Free only mention DIAGNOSTICS
(just checked), which says that `Ex' should be used there.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-27 9:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4C4E0F7B.4030009@bsd.lv>
[not found] ` <20100727071224.GB7946@bramka.kerhand.co.uk>
2010-07-27 8:31 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-07-27 9:00 ` Sascha Wildner
2010-07-27 9:20 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-07-27 9:32 ` Kristaps Dzonsons [this message]
2010-07-27 9:41 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-07-27 10:03 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-07-27 10:18 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-07-27 11:21 ` mdoc EXIT STATUS (Was: pending open issues) Kristaps Dzonsons
[not found] ` <20100727131709.GA16499@edoofus.dev.vega.ru>
2010-07-27 13:54 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-07-27 14:15 ` Jason McIntyre
[not found] ` <20100728123317.GA43609@edoofus.dev.vega.ru>
2010-07-28 13:38 ` Jason McIntyre
2010-08-03 21:28 ` Ingo Schwarze
2010-08-03 21:34 ` Joerg Sonnenberger
2010-08-06 15:48 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-08-06 16:17 ` Ingo Schwarze
2010-08-06 16:36 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-08-04 6:57 ` Jason McIntyre
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