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author | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-07-29 01:15:17 +0200 |
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committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-07-29 12:30:22 +0200 |
commit | 3113c7f3b8173a725016481f0efaec74417283e6 (patch) | |
tree | 6a6c037e6f1be6f15ddd363297a55a0d9074577c /man1 | |
parent | cca1bcd67da3d3675345c287529bde96319a9120 (diff) |
Many pages: Use STANDARDS instead of CONFORMING TO
STANDARDS seems to be much more extended than CONFORMING TO. For
consistency across the whole manual pages corpus, let's try to
unify, by following the most commonly used section name.
On 7/27/22 12:49, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Alejandro Colomar wrote on Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 02:02:56PM +0200:
> > 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.
Scripted change:
$ find man* -type f | xargs sed -i 's/CONFORMING TO/STANDARDS/'
plus a few manual fixes to the following files:
- man2/getrlimit.2
- man3/syslog.3
- scripts/bash_aliases
Reported-by: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man1')
-rw-r--r-- | man1/iconv.1 | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | man1/locale.1 | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | man1/localedef.1 | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | man1/pldd.1 | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | man1/sprof.1 | 2 |
5 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man1/iconv.1 b/man1/iconv.1 index 154e39192..f9901ef37 100644 --- a/man1/iconv.1 +++ b/man1/iconv.1 @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Usual system gconv module configuration cache. Depending on the architecture, the above files may instead be located at directories with the path prefix .IR /usr/lib64 . -.SH CONFORMING TO +.SH STANDARDS POSIX.1-2001. .SH EXAMPLES Convert text from the ISO 8859-15 character encoding to UTF-8: diff --git a/man1/locale.1 b/man1/locale.1 index 560fd3d06..b86443e7c 100644 --- a/man1/locale.1 +++ b/man1/locale.1 @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Usual default locale archive location. .TP .I /usr/share/i18n/locales Usual default path for locale definition files. -.SH CONFORMING TO +.SH STANDARDS POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008. .SH EXAMPLES .EX diff --git a/man1/localedef.1 b/man1/localedef.1 index 9b09e5261..702840f6d 100644 --- a/man1/localedef.1 +++ b/man1/localedef.1 @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ telephone services. .I outputpath/LC_TIME An output file that contains information about formatting of data and time values. -.SH CONFORMING TO +.SH STANDARDS POSIX.1-2008. .SH EXAMPLES Compile the locale files for Finnish in the UTF\-8 character set diff --git a/man1/pldd.1 b/man1/pldd.1 index f84cf26d8..d27f88b54 100644 --- a/man1/pldd.1 +++ b/man1/pldd.1 @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ If given an invalid option, it exits with the status 64. .SH VERSIONS .B pldd is available since glibc 2.15. -.SH CONFORMING TO +.SH STANDARDS The .B pldd command is not specified by POSIX.1. diff --git a/man1/sprof.1 b/man1/sprof.1 index 8f4261c58..cef1b27a8 100644 --- a/man1/sprof.1 +++ b/man1/sprof.1 @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Display a short usage message and exit. .TP .BR \-V ", " \-\-version Display the program version and exit. -.SH CONFORMING TO +.SH STANDARDS The .B sprof command is a GNU extension, not present in POSIX.1. |