Bug 240248

Summary:

Correct HISTORY section of null(4) manual page

Product:

Documentation

Reporter:

Gordon Bergling <gbe>

Component:

Manual Pages

Assignee:

freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>

Status:

Closed Not Accepted

Severity:

Affects Some People

CC:

doc, sevan, yuripv

Priority:

---

Keywords:

patch

Version:

Latest

Hardware:

Any

OS:

Any

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Patch for null(4) man page	none

Description Gordon Bergling freebsd_committer

2019-09-01 12:48:22 UTC

/dev/null has its origin in AT&T v4 and not in v7.

Obtained from OpenBSD

facts researched from:
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V4/man/man1/sh.1
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V4/nsys/ken/mem.c
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V5/usr/sys/dmr/mem.c
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/man/man4/mem.4

Comment 1 Gordon Bergling freebsd_committer

2019-09-01 12:49:10 UTC

Created attachment 207062 [details]
Patch for null(4) man page

Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2019-09-01 13:02:29 UTC

*** Bug 240247 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Yuri Pankov freebsd_committer

2019-09-01 16:05:01 UTC

This seems to be already fixed in base r351631.

Comment 4 Sevan Janiyan freebsd_committer

2019-09-01 16:19:00 UTC

(In reply to Yuri Pankov from comment #3)
Indeed.
Gordon, thanks for the patch anyway.