John Nielsen writes:
> > They state that the MAN pages are authoritative in OpenBSD, "... In
> > OpenBSD, the UNIX manual pages are considered authoritative. If a
> > program or function call does not behave exactly as the manual
> > describes, this is considered a bug...."
> >
> > I was just curious to know if this was also true in FreeBSD.
>
> In my experience, yes. AFAIK having detailed, accurate man pages
> for everything in the base system has always been a design goal.
> And if I find something that doesn't work like the manpage
> describes, then I submit a bug report. Sometimes the bug is with
> the manpage, though. :)
"Goal" being the operative word. A very quick look at open doc
PRs suggests there could be as many as 50 PRs about man pages.
Robert Huff
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