From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailout.scc.kit.edu (mailout.scc.kit.edu [129.13.185.202]) by krisdoz.my.domain (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q4PBd0IL032235 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 07:39:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hekate.usta.de (asta-nat.asta.uni-karlsruhe.de [172.22.63.82]) by scc-mailout-02.scc.kit.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72 #1) id 1SXsrB-0000TO-O6; Fri, 25 May 2012 13:38:57 +0200 Received: from donnerwolke.usta.de ([172.24.96.3]) by hekate.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SXsrB-0007Mf-On for tech@mdocml.bsd.lv; Fri, 25 May 2012 13:38:57 +0200 Received: from iris.usta.de ([172.24.96.5] helo=usta.de) by donnerwolke.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SXsrB-0006qC-Mf for tech@mdocml.bsd.lv; Fri, 25 May 2012 13:38:57 +0200 Received: from schwarze by usta.de with local (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1SXsrB-0003pc-Eg for tech@mdocml.bsd.lv; Fri, 25 May 2012 13:38:57 +0200 Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 13:38:57 +0200 From: Ingo Schwarze To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv Subject: Re: Support -Ios='OpenBSD 5.1' to override uname(3) Message-ID: <20120525113857.GA10563@iris.usta.de> References: <20120524234017.GA15573@iris.usta.de> <20120525090440.GA16868@britannica.bec.de> X-Mailinglist: mdocml-tech Reply-To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120525090440.GA16868@britannica.bec.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Hi Joerg, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote on Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:04:41AM +0200: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 01:40:17AM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> Bob Beck definitely wanted this for man.cgi, so i have put it into >> OpenBSD. I'd like to push it upstream, as well; i think the problem >> occurs in general as soon as you want to serve manuals from multiple >> operating systems or releases from the same server. > I don't have a problem with the feature in general, but why -I? We have -O for output options (i.e. options bound to specific output formats and used while generating the output), so by analogy, this is -I for an input option (i.e. an option bound to the specific input format, mdoc(7), and used while parsing the input file). Yours, Ingo -- To unsubscribe send an email to tech+unsubscribe@mdocml.bsd.lv