Re: [groff] Asynchronous events

2018-12-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Branden, > Austrian School economists love to justify their laissez-faire > capitalist intuitions Please keep subjective opinions off the list when they're not related to troff. Due to the list's size, there's bound to be subscribers that don't agree, whatever the stated view, and it causes u

Re: [groff] Asynchronous events

2018-12-12 Thread James K. Lowden
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 03:32:11 +0100 Ingo Schwarze wrote: > * ERRORS. >Most system call pages and many library function pages have >this section, but the information being complete is the >exception rather than the norm. Even in OpenBSD. That's especially true for network functions.

Re: [groff] Asynchronous events

2018-12-11 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi Branden, G. Branden Robinson wrote on Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 07:31:35PM -0500: > At 2018-12-11T18:44:50+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: >> So i think there are good reasons for avoiding ASYNCHRONOUS EVENTS. >> It certainly isn't a standard section in manual pages. > I think your argument has merit,

[groff] Asynchronous events (was: man page structure and philosophy (was: mom manpage))

2018-12-11 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2018-12-11T18:44:50+0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > POSIX provides a technical standard, not documentation; only some > parts of the form happens to be similar to manual pages, but not > the purpose, structure, or conventions. This is true, and yet I feel I perceive more parallels than you do. How