From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
To: tech@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: mandocdb: do not use bogus files
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:10:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECE1802.8050609@bsd.lv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111114233403.GL27815@iris.usta.de>
On 11/15/11 00:34, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Kristaps,
>
> Kristaps Dzonsons wrote on Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:07:13PM +0100:
>
>> This is a good start, but it needs more documentation as to what's
>> happening. You mention man(1) a great deal, but I can't easily find
>> an authoritative list of man's behaviour in this regard (not on a
>> 4.9 box, anyway).
>
> I fear that is only documented in /etc/man.conf.
> So i kind of see your point that this is all rather fuzzy.
>
> Below is a patch to avoid references to man(1) and be somewhat
> more explicit about what i'm doing (right now, that is...)
>
> Again, i expect many more changes in this area before the dust
> settles, so i'd like to keep the documentation brief for now
> lest i have to rewrite it over and over.
>
> While here, i'd like to reword a few comments that left me
> wondering when i tried to understand the code, and i'd like
> to fix a minor pasto in an error path.
>
> Is this OK for you?
Ingo,
Please check these in when you get the chance!
Thanks,
Kristaps
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-13 18:42 Ingo Schwarze
2011-11-13 20:05 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-11-14 0:06 ` Ingo Schwarze
2011-11-14 19:13 ` Ingo Schwarze
2011-11-14 20:07 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2011-11-14 23:34 ` Ingo Schwarze
2011-11-24 10:10 ` Kristaps Dzonsons [this message]
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