non absolute path in hier(7) manual page

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at MIT.EDU
Fri Sep 23 03:21:47 UTC 2016


On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Teng Zhang via freebsd-doc wrote:

> hi, the relative path in hier(7)  becomes very inconsistent for me when
> one directoryincludes too much sub-directory, sometimes i can't figure
> out the sub-directory belongsto whom.so, change the relative path to
> absolute path will be a good idea ?

Well, there are competing concerns between clarify and avoiding clutter,
and the goals being optimized for in a manual page are "reference
document" (as opposed to "introductory documentation").  But it's probably
worth thinking about; can you file an entry at
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ ?

-Ben


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