FreeBSD online man pages bug?
Ed Schouten
ed at 80386.nl
Tue Sep 23 20:29:04 UTC 2008
* Daniel Gerzo <danger at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Hello Ed,
>
> Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 9:33:31 PM, you wrote:
>
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=posix_openpt&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8-current&format=html
>
> > I get presented the posix_openpt manpage from FreeBSD 7.0, instead of
> > the one from -CURRENT. Even if I choose FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, I get a
> > manual page from 7.0.
>
> > Does anyone know what's up with that? Thanks!
>
> This is not a real bug, just a bit awkward - the manual page is from
> the system you have choosen (i.e. 8.0-CURRENT/5.3-RELEASE) however,
> the box serving the manual pages is runnig 7.0, that's why the foother
> of the manual page say's it's 7.0. The content should be find however.
>
> Please note that the man pages for 8.0 might be a bit outdated, I am
> not sure how often these get updated. People use to poke doceng@ (or
> someone else?) from time to time and they update it :-)
Ah, I understand. I thought they were all from 7.0, because the TTY
things I committed last month didn't show up yet. Thanks for explaining
it.
--
Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
WWW: http://80386.nl/
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