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From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: mdoc EXIT STATUS (Was: pending open issues)
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:48:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C5C2ECB.7020304@bsd.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100803213451.GA2770@britannica.bec.de>

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 11:28:54PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> the exchange of information and opinions where to best put exit status
>> documentation for section 1, 6, and 8 manuals seems unfinished to me;
>> if i understand correctly, what FreeBSD and DragonFly want and do is
>> plain enough (EXIT STATUS), but in NetBSD and OpenBSD, i find such
>> information sometimes in DESCRIPTION, sometimes in DIAGNOSTICS.
> 
> Well, NetBSD never went over all the man pages, but the general
> consensus for new ones is to use EXIT STATUS. I would make that the
> recommendation for new man pages.

I'm fine with this patch, given Joerg's note that Nx uses EXIT STATUS 
along with the others...

Thanks,

Kristaps
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-06 15:48 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   ` pending open issues Kristaps Dzonsons
2010-07-27  9:00     ` Sascha Wildner
2010-07-27  9:20     ` Jason McIntyre
2010-07-27  9:32       ` Kristaps Dzonsons
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 [this message]
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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