Valery Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru> writes: > On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 07:17:52 -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > >> Jan Schaumann <jscha...@netmeister.org> writes: >> >> > Valery Ushakov <u...@stderr.spb.ru> wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 22:33:17 +0000, Jan Schaumann wrote: >> > >> >> > Briefly describe the 'arch' and 'nodump' flags. >> >> >> >> What makes them special and why is that these two have to be described >> >> here and not in chflags(2), where the flags are actually defined? >> > >> > Unlike the other flags, they are not intuitive. As >> > they are exposed to the end-user (versus the >> > programmer), it seems useful to describe them in >> > section 1 of the manual pages. >> >> FWIW, I agree that the flags are user-facing rather than (only) >> programmer-facing, and thus should be described in a 1/8 manpage vs only >> a 2 manpage. > > Then *all* of them should be described in a proper narration. I'm not > objecting to that. I'm objecting to sticking the description of two > of them chosen seemingly at random in a place selected seemingly at > random.
OK, that's a perfectly reasonable objection.