Hi Ingo, On 7/27/22 15:11, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
+.SH CONFORMING TOThat should be ".SH STANDARDS".We use CONFORMING TO in Linux. Don't know why; just history, I guess. See man-pages(7).Weird. I failed to find a single instance of "CONFORMING TO" in AT&T UNIX (including v6, PWB, v7, 32v, v8, v10, System III, SVR1, SVR2) nor in any version of UCB CSRG BSD. So considering that System V and BSD are widely considered the two main original branches of the development of Unix-like operating systems and Linux is often considered to have drawn inspiration from both, the section name "CONFORMING TO" does not appear to be a UNIX thing. For example, Aeleen Frisch, "Essential System Administration", O'Reilly, Cambridge 1995, considers Linux as slightly more influenced by 4.3BSD than by System V Release 3. STANDARDS, on the other hand, is present since 4.3BSD-Reno (June 1990). 4.3BSD-Reno predates the first version of the Linux kernel by more than a year, and the first Linux manual pages probably for longer than that. So i have no idea where "CONFORMING TO" may have come from.I don't like the idea of being inconsistent with other Unix systems with no good reason. 's/CONFORMING TO/STANDARDS/' might happen some day; just saying.
I've already changed that. I didn't yet push to <kernel.org>. The patch is in my server, for you to check: <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/src/alx/linux/man-pages/man-pages.git/commit/?id=8aac6f8f512e46a008140b93956b6c414ab13a04>. It didn't fit in an email (the mailing list is limited to 100KB).
I'll probably push tomorrow. Cheers, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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