Re: /usr/man/man2 and /usr/man/man4 directories missing

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Christopher C.,

This is a bit of a pet peeve for me, so I just have to chime in, even if 
Christopher F.'s replies make it moot in this context.

Please, PLEASE don't use source code as an input to or as a specificational 
/ definitional source of information for producing written documentation. 
That is, by definition, putting the cart before the horse.

I won't go on, but that's such a pervasive misconception (that an 
implementation defines a specification) and it happens to be one that 
bothers me supremely, so I just had to say my piece.

Thank you for listening.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 19:40 2001-10-08, Christopher Currie wrote:
>There was supposedly a thread about docs recently, but I've had a hard time
>tracking it down...
>
>Therefore, I'd like to take a stab at writing the man pages for these calls.
>The best references are going to be the actual source code...


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