MAN pages authoritativeness

2006-05-02 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi list, just a quick question: I just read the InformIT article on OpenBSD 3.9, available here: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=468055f1=rssrl=1 They state that the MAN pages are authoritative in OpenBSD, ... In OpenBSD, the UNIX manual pages are considered authoritative. If a

Re: MAN pages authoritativeness

2006-05-02 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 06:18, Pietro Cerutti wrote: I just read the InformIT article on OpenBSD 3.9, available here: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=468055f1=rssrl=1 They state that the MAN pages are authoritative in OpenBSD, ... In OpenBSD, the UNIX manual pages are considered

Re: MAN pages authoritativeness

2006-05-02 Thread Robert Huff
John Nielsen writes: They state that the MAN pages are authoritative in OpenBSD, ... In OpenBSD, the UNIX manual pages are considered authoritative. If a program or function call does not behave exactly as the manual describes, this is considered a bug I was just curious to