Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On (2002/07/17 01:52), Dima Dorfman wrote: > > > The devfs(8) manual page is a pretty good reference of the existing > > features and semantics, but it lacks polish needed to be able to serve > > as an introduction. > > Actually, I think it's brilliant. > > The only nits are the weird sections, which made it hard for me to find > my way around. For example, the examples are all in an Examples > subsection of the non-standard RULE SUBSYSTEM section, so I didn't see > that there were examples when I first looked for them. > > I'd suggest the attached patch, to make it easier for manpage die-hards > to navigate.
The reason everything is written under subsections is that /sbin/devfs is not, in theory, limited to just rule manipulation. I don't really like how I did it, either, but if I write everything under "standard" sections like you suggest, adding non-rule stuff to devfs(8) will be a much bigger pain. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message