Bryan Drewery <bdrew...@freebsd.org> wrote in <201309120053.r8c0rc7h082...@svn.freebsd.org>:
bd> Author: bdrewery (ports committer) bd> Date: Thu Sep 12 00:53:38 2013 bd> New Revision: 255486 bd> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/255486 bd> bd> Log: bd> Consistently reference file descriptors as "fd". 55 other manpages bd> used "fd", while these used "d" and "filedes". bd> bd> MFC after: 1 week bd> Approved by: gjb bd> Approved by: re (delphij) I think this kind of changes need a consensus because several POSIX functions use "filedes" in the specification document. r254484 by pjd was a similar change (s/type/af/ in gethostbyaddr()). In SUSv4, fdopen() uses "filedes" and openat() uses "fd", for example. Consistency throughout our manual pages is generally good. However, I also see the benefit of using the same expression as the specification even if it is inconsistent. What do you think? -- Hiroki
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