Re: misc/37981: shell builtin manpages are for csh(1) only...

[Abhinav Upadhyay <er.abhinav.upadhyay%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:40 AM, David Holland
<dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR misc/37981; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
> From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: misc/37981: shell builtin manpages are for csh(1) only...
> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 05:07:19 +0000
>
>  On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:55:01AM +0000, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>   >  >  (In the case of time(1) since it's apparently built into everything
>   >  >  but sh, I guess the time(1) page should be disambiguation. So what do
>   >  >  we call the page for /usr/bin/time? time-bin(1)?)
>   >
>   >  I think time(1) manual is fine as-is.
>
>  Perhaps so; are there any other cases though where the main page
>  should be a disambiguation page?
>
>  (Also, it occurs to me that one would like disambiguation pages to be
>  able to reference pages from installed packages. Need to think about
>  how one might make that go.)

What will be the criteria of such ambiguous man pages? I'm thinking it
should be possible to figure out such cases from the database
generated by makemandb(8).
-
Abhinav