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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 /man2type | |
| 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 'man2type')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2type/open_how.2type | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2type/open_how.2type b/man2type/open_how.2type index e058c08dc..570bc9b22 100644 --- a/man2type/open_how.2type +++ b/man2type/open_how.2type @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ the kernel behaving as though that extension field was not present. Therefore, a user .I must zero-fill this structure on initialization. -.SH CONFORMING TO +.SH STANDARDS This type is Linux-specific. .SH SEE ALSO .BR openat2 (2) |