[illumos-Developer] webrev for 635, 1181, 1188-1192

[Alex Lam S.L.]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>>> Section 7 (with no subsection) is not actually documented, so my
>>> feeling is that the fd manpage should probably actually be in
>>> subsection 7D along with null(7D) and zero(7D). (I commented on the
>>> bug as well). The aforementioned (7D) manpages also have FILES
>>> sections with the /dev paths.
>>
>> The problem is that we already have fd manpage in section 7D (fd, fdc -
>> drivers for floppy disks and floppy disk controllers), so the one
>> talking about file descriptors really looks homeless. If you strongly
>> disagree with using section 7 for such manpages, we probably could make
>> the floppy stuff be named fdc only (still looks better than section 4 in
>> any case..).
>
> Huh.  Floppy disks.  Something computers used to use...
> I haven't seen a floppy disk in ages! :)
>

Not trying to brag about it or anything, but I have more than a dozen
of them within my sight, and more around this office...

Anyone kind enought to offer me a lift on their time machines? I think
I might want to get out of here ;-)


Alex.


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