On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 05:42:33PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > jmc@ pointed out these places where dbm(3) is still mentioned. > > For pwd_mkdb.8, I suggest to remove the whole paragraph. It's been > there since the very first version of the man page in the CSRG tree, > 25 years ago. At some point it was renamed from Compatibility to > Standards, although it doesn't describe any standard. > > ok? >
fine by me, and thanks (i wasn;t sure about a fix for the latter). jmc > Index: lib/libc/db/man/hash.3 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/lib/libc/db/man/hash.3,v > retrieving revision 1.19 > diff -u -p -r1.19 hash.3 > --- lib/libc/db/man/hash.3 10 Sep 2015 10:20:55 -0000 1.19 > +++ lib/libc/db/man/hash.3 8 May 2016 15:35:17 -0000 > @@ -130,8 +130,6 @@ will attempt to determine if the hash fu > the one with which the database was created, and will fail if it is not. > .Pp > Backward compatible interfaces to the routines described in > -.Xr dbm 3 > -and > .Xr ndbm 3 > are provided, although these interfaces are not compatible with > previous file formats. > Index: usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8 > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8,v > retrieving revision 1.24 > diff -u -p -r1.24 pwd_mkdb.8 > --- usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8 30 Nov 2015 17:03:05 -0000 1.24 > +++ usr.sbin/pwd_mkdb/pwd_mkdb.8 8 May 2016 15:35:17 -0000 > @@ -142,16 +142,6 @@ temporary file > .Xr getpwent 3 , > .Xr passwd 5 , > .Xr vipw 8 > -.Sh STANDARDS > -Previous versions of the system had a program similar to > -.Nm pwd_mkdb , > -.Sy mkpasswd , > -which built > -.Xr dbm 3 > -style databases for the password file but depended on the calling programs > -to install them. > -The program was renamed in order that previous users of the program > -not be surprised by the changes in functionality. > .Sh BUGS > Because of the necessity for atomic update of the password files, > .Nm > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
