On Mon, 04 Jun 2001 at 11:28:02 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > so we do have to provide all these man pages and manage them with > alternatives among all the shells? > > sounds like a mess to maintain.
I agree with Herbert that the current situation is very confusing: as it stands, you can be running ash, type 'man for', and get the man page for the bash builtins [1], which is at least surprising. Personally I'd have builtins(1) just say 'builtins \- bash built-in commands, see bash(1)' in the NAME section, and list the commands in the SYNOPSIS instead. NAME has a more well-defined meaning. [1] Well, actually, at the moment you get bash(1) because the fact that builtins(1) doesn't mention 'builtins' in its NAME section, and instead mentions 'bash' which it does not document, tickles a bug in man. I'll fix it when I work out how to do so without breaking other recent fixes. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]