docs/74889: S_ISREG etc marcos missing from stat man page

[Peter Pentchev]

The following reply was made to PR docs/74889; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net>
To: Alden <aspiess at software.plasmon.com>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: docs/74889: S_ISREG etc marcos missing from stat man page
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:25:01 +0200

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 On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:13:59PM +0000, Alden wrote:
 >=20
 > >Number:         74889
 > >Category:       docs
 > >Synopsis:       S_ISREG etc marcos missing from stat man page
 [snip]
 > >Originator:     Alden
 > >Release:        Man pages on freebsd.org website
 > >Description:
 >=20
 > The section 2 man page for stat, lstat, etc does not define the POSIX
 > macros to define file mode - i.e. S_ISLNK, S_ISREG, etc.  The macros
 > do not appear to have their own man page.
 [snip]
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >=20
 > Using the man page interface on www.freebsd.org, search for lstat.
 > Look in all sections. I've tried FreeBSD 6.0-current and FreeBSD
 > 4.8-RELEASE (which is the BSD version I'm using).
 
 This is funny...  On November 15th, about three weeks before you filed
 this PR, Yar Tikhiy committed revision 1.37 of the stat(2) manual page,
 which added just those macros (or at least their descriptions; the
 macros are indeed very much there for us all to use :)  Then, on
 November 25th, he merged the change into the RELENG_5 branch.
 
 The funny part is that those definitions haven't shown up yet in the
 6.0-CURRENT section of the website.  I'm CC'ing the www@ team, since
 somebody over there would probably know just how does man.cgi do its
 thing - or rather, who is in charge of updating the bsddoc/man
 directories on the FreeBSD web server.
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
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