Re: How to use /usr/sbin/hardlink?

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 08:43 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > the result sometimes is you get empty manpages.. which isn't helping too
> > > much either ;)
> > 
> > I don't recall ever seeing an empty manpage (though I have seen 
> > placeholders saying "we're working on it.")
> > 
> > Surely though the important point is that there's a substantial body of 
> > people who think man pages are important. I think Bill N said something 
> > of the kind in an earlier release of wget when there was no man page.
> > 
> > Even if Debian's not perfect, it's a source of good man pages and having 
> > a Sarge box handy gives a quick check for useful docs where RH doesn't 
> > have one.
> 
> Oh I agree manpages are important. Just pointing out that a "hard" rule
> like that just leads to cheating. Last time I used debian there were
> quite a few of those... (but I sort of switched to a RH based distro
> when I started working there...)

Getting back to the hardlink man page, I submitted a proposed man page:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=170009

Hopefully someone will commit it to CVS at Red Hat :)

/Brian/

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