Where would a nullfs man page go?

Ruslan Ermilov ru at FreeBSD.org
Mon May 29 09:47:43 UTC 2006


Hi Craig,

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 05:54:47PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> I want to make a man page for nullfs.
> I was thinking of making it nullfs(5),
> but according to intro(5), section 5 is for file formats.
> 
> nullfs isn't a real file format....it mounts a loopback
> file system sub-tree (see mount_nullfs(8)).
> 
> Where would the best place be to put nullfs man page, then?
> 
It depends on the intended contents of a manpage.  I'd be
most logical to put it into section 4, especially if it
looks similar to a (misplaced) ffs(7) manpage.  Thanks for
asking.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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