On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 9/29/11 9:48 AM, Peng Yu wrote: > >> Therefore, either bash manpage should specify clearly which regex >> manpage it should be in each system (which a bad choice, because there >> can be a large number of systems), or the bash manpage should omit all >> the non consistent reference and say something like "see more details >> in info" or something else that is platform independent. Referring to >> regex(3) without any quantification is not a very good choice . > > Why, exactly? regex(3) is the one thing that's portable across systems, > it happens to describe the interfaces bash uses, and it contains the > appropriate system-specific references. `info' is considerably less > portable and widespread than `man', so a man page reference is the best > choice.
We all have discovered that regex(3) is not consistent across all the platform. Why you say it is portable? As I mentioned previously, the best is to add a few examples in man bash. Based on the assumption that you don't want to add an example in man bash, then the next choice to add a reference to info, even though it may not always be available in all the system (but as least it should be downloadable from bash gnu website). -- Regards, Peng
