There is quite some value (in terms of readability and user
expectations) if consistent names are used for the sections
within manual pages. This patch is one of a series to bring
about this consistency.
In the Linux man-pages project, I long ago did away with the
AUTHOR(S) section, but I realize some projects like to keep this.
But, let's make sure that the section is consistently titled
across pages. Currently we have AUTHOR (47) or AUTHORS (41).
Let's standardize on the latter (which is also what is
suggested in man-pages(7)).
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Using double quotes in .SH lines containing multiple words is unneeded,
and in any case is not consistently done in the util-linux manual pages,
where double quotes are used in only around half of the cases.
(This usage was long ago elminated in the man-pages project, with
no ill effects reported to date.)
Remove these quotes, so that .SH lines are more uniform, in preparation
for some (more easily) scripted doiscovery of consistency problems in
(and possibly global fixes to) the manual pages.
Other than stripping the double quotes, this patch makes no changes to
the content of the manual pages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Transform some of them into copyright lines.
Also fix three header lines and snip some trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
As per the convention shown in Documentation/howto-man-page.txt.
Also make a few other tiny adjustments along the way.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
Use dates without the day, use the full month name, put "util-linux" in
the lower left corner, and "User Commands" or "System Administration"
at the top center.
Also improve here and there the one-line program description.
Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
This new version:
* not based on chdir()
* implemented without recursion (does not depend on stack size)
* list of directories is stored in allocated memory (the code is
extendable with new functionality (e.g. show usernames, groupnames,
selunux contexts, ...).
* supports long command line options
* adds a new command line option:
-n, --nosymlinks don't follow symlinks
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Don't follow the path if a component is not directory. It doesn't make sense
to support something like:
$ touch a b
$ namei a/b <-- where "a" is not directory
The support for infinite loop of symbolic links is a strange wish only. The
stack size is very limited. Try:
$ ln -s x
$ namei x/x
[Migration note: severity="low"]
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Sébastien Helleu
Benno Schulenberg
Sami Kerola
Karel Zak
Vladimir Brednikov
Peter Breitenlohner
Li Zefan