Subject: Re: misc/22101: man (5) dir excludes d_type field in struct dirent description
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Johan Danielsson <joda@pdc.kth.se>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/09/2003 10:12:06
David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:

> It is a NetBSD extension and will only be valid for certain file
> system types.  As such it is probably better (IMHO) that it isn't
> described.

I disagree. It should be documented as a NetBSD extension that is only
valid for certain file systems. Otherwise people will just start using
it, because it looks useful to them.

/Johan