On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 02:36:54PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Karel Zak wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:45:23AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>In pretty much all Linux setups, the (1p) category is searched
> >>before (8). Since POSIX documents a more limited version of renice,
> >>this can be confusing to people who do `man renice` and end up with
> >>the POSIX version rather than the Linux version. Dropping a
> >>renice(1) in that redirects to renice(8) helps out users.
> >
> > I'm not a fun of this kind of change. I'm not sure if we need to
> > resolve this problem with an useless posix man page by a change in
> > util-linux upstream. It's the 1p man page what sucks and it's your
> > distribution that offers this man page to users.
> >
> > For example RHEL/FC doesn't ship renice.1p, there is renice.8 only.
> > I have no clue about others distros -- any suggestion from Suse,
> > Debian, ... ?
> >
>
> renice(8) is bogus, though. renice is a user-accessible command (albeit
> with limitations), and really belongs in (1).
Sounds like better argument than "...because posix sucks". Well,
there is probably more man pages that more belongs in man1:
dmesg
ipcs (but the current ipcs.8 is pretty poor)
ipcrm
setsid
OK, I'll fix it.
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Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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