[busybox-dev] AST versions of fold, mktemp, pathchk,& tty [PSARC/2009/414 FastTrack timeout 07/31/2009]

[James Carlson]

John Sonnenschein wrote:
> I've got a question about this...
> 
> Whose responsibility is it to update the man pages and --man command 
> then? The people whose jobs it is to update man pages, or the people 
> whose jobs it is to update the command line utility?
> 
> Basically if a new flag is added in the future for some reason, how will 
> one synchronize the man pages?

Usually, that's done by filing a bug against the man pages.

The advantage of keeping the documentation separate is that it's in the 
hands of professional documentation writers, who are able to keep a 
consistent style across all of the system man pages.

I'm with Garrett about the inadvisability of baking man page 
documentation into executables, but for ksh93-related things, I think 
that ship has unfortunately sailed.

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <carlsonj at workingcode.com>