On Tuesday 24 April 2007, 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, ... ? the man page comes from the standard Linux man-pages package ... unlike Redhat, Gentoo doesnt patch the crap out of it ... we push our changes upstream and install pretty much everything it offers (including renice(1p)) Debian moves man8/renice.8 to man1/renice.1 ... either my install here is dated or they didnt update the header cause it still says RENICE(8) ;) -mike
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