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Re: NAME_MAX usage not consistent across man pages
On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:01:16PM +0200, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> While looking to some man pages, i noticed that NAME_MAX define usage
> is not consistent ... Some of them use it enclosed with braces, and
> some others do not; and there is 3 variants for setting braces :
>
> njoly@petaure [share/man]> find man* -type f -name '*.[1-9]' | xargs grep -h
> '[^_A-Z]NAME_MAX' | sort | uniq -c
> 5 .Brq Dv NAME_MAX
> 2 .Brq Dv NAME_MAX .
> 14 .Dv NAME_MAX
> 4 .Dv NAME_MAX .
> 3 .Dv { NAME_MAX }
> 30 .Dv {NAME_MAX}
>
> To be consistent across all pages, we should use a single expression
> in all pages. I'm for using the `.Brq Dv NAME_MAX' one, which add the
> braces (without spaces, following the opengroup man pages) using a
> mdoc macro.
>
> Comments ?
Why do we want the braces? And if we do, why is this particular symbol
different from all other uses of Dv?
I'd go with just .Dv NAME_MAX.
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David A. Holland
dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
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