On 10/17/22 13:10, Alex Colomar wrote:
[CC += groff@, since it was CCd in the old conversation referred to here] Hi Ingo, On 7/27/22 17:32, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Alejandro Colomar wrote on Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 06:17:40PM +0200: >> I wondered for a long time what happens if you create subdirs within a>> man? section. How do man(1)s handle </usr/share/man/man3/python/foo.3>?> On *BSD systems, that typically means: > > The architecture-specific library function foo(3) > for the "python" hardware architecture. > > Here are a few examples from OpenBSD: > > /usr/share/man/man1/sparc64/mksuncd.1 > /usr/share/man/man2/armv7/arm_sync_icache.2 > /usr/share/man/man2/i386/i386_iopl.2 > /usr/share/man/man3/octeon/cacheflush.3 > /usr/share/man/man3/sgi/get_fpc_csr.3 > /usr/share/man/man4/alpha/irongate.4 > /usr/share/man/man4/amd64/mpbios.4 > /usr/share/man/man4/luna88k/cbus.4 > /usr/share/man/man4/macppc/openpic.4 > /usr/share/man/man4/powerpc64/opalcons.4 > /usr/share/man/man4/riscv64/sfgpio.4 > /usr/share/man/man5/sparc64/ldom.conf.5 > /usr/share/man/man8/hppa/boot.8 > /usr/share/man/man8/macppc/pdisk.8 > /usr/share/man/man8/sgi/sgivol.8 > /usr/share/man/man8/sparc64/ldomctl.8 On 10/17/22 03:22, наб wrote:Cf., well, the UNIX Programmer's Manual:https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dennis_v1/UNIX_ProgrammersManual_Nov71.pdfPDF page 191; yes, the typographical convention here is insane, and the contemprary-correct way to refer to this page from within the manual would be /just/ "/etc/ascii", but, given the context, "/etc/ascii (VII)" makes the most sense to meI just saw this and wondered if the subdirs in the past were used as just part of the manual page name...I have been remembering every now and then the discussion we had about a hypothetical -M, and think we need it or something like that. I guess subdirs are not possible nowadays because of the translation usage, but
s/translation/arch/
I'm curious about if that was different in the past or what. Does anyone know? Cheers, Alex
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