On 03/24/2017 06:26 PM, Ian Abbott wrote: > On 24/03/2017 14:40, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hello Ian, >> >> On 03/23/2017 07:37 PM, Ian Abbott wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The first parameter of `syslog()` is called `priority` in the man-page, >>> except in the breakdown of the possible log levels, where it is called >>> `level`. >> >> Your report doesn't say clearly which pieces of text you find to >> be incorrect, but I wonder if you have missed this sentence in the >> man page: >> >> The priority argument is formed by ORing the facility and the >> level values (explained below). > > Oh, that's it! My mistake. Apologies for the noise. So, I think the metapoint brought out by the comments of you and Walter is that the text of the page is not really organized in a way that is easy to parse. (And a few notable details were also missing, I see.) I've reworked the page quite a bit to (I hope) make the information easier to parse. The revised version is already pushed to Git, in case you want to take a look. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
