10 Jul
2006
10 Jul
'06
11:54 p.m.
Barry L. Kline spake the following on 7/10/2006 2:39 PM:
Scott Silva wrote:
Since programmers are notorious for putting off the documentation, it is very common to have man pages not completely in sync with a program.
That's one area where OpenBSD is far superior to Linux... the man pages are considered to be *the* authoritative documentation for any program. Any inaccuracies or incompleteness is considered to be a serious bug in the program.
Barry
That is why so much code is ported from the BSD's, at least in the early days. Even Microsoft got most of it's TCP/IP stack from BSD.
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