On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:59:21AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 4:26 AM Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > > > > On 2020-03-18, Jeffrey Walton <noloa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > According to https://man.openbsd.org/NetBSD-8.1/security.7#FORTIFY_SOURCE > > > OpenBSD implements glibc bounds checking on certain functions. I am > > > trying to detect FORTIFY_SOURCE without looking up operating system > > > names and versions. > > > > That is a NetBSD manual page, it does not apply to OpenBSD. > > Thanks. > > I may be splitting hairs, but the pages title clearly says it is an > OpenBSD man page.
I have no real connection to the OpenBSD project other than being a long time user, and I have an interest in documentation. It says, at the top of the page, it says "OpenBSD manual page server", i.e. it's a manual page server hosted by the OpenBSD project. The link that you mention contains the string "NetBSD-8.1" and the name of the manual that you're looking at is "security — NetBSD security features". Also, "NetBSD-8.1" is repeated in the page footer and the string "NetBSD" occurs many times throughout the page while "OpenBSD" really only occurs once. > > What is the purpose of supplying man pages for the wrong operating > system? It wastes people's time and breaks search. This search does > not produce expected results: > https://www.google.com/search?q=FORTIFY_SOURCE+site%3Aopenbsd.org. > > If you really want to confuse folks, maybe OpenSD can supply Windows man > pages. > > Jeff It's debatable whether the manuals for systems other than OpenBSD should be hosted at man.openbsd.org, but citing "confusion" is probably not a reason to stop providing these. If you want uptodate manuals for the system that you're using, I hope that you're using the man(1) command on the command line and taht you don't rely on the correctness of manuals found on the web. I don't think Windows has manuals in man or mandoc format that are free to host. -- Andreas (Kusalananda) Kähäri SciLifeLab, NBIS, ICM Uppsala University, Sweden .
