Bug 25392

Summary: Chapter 9 pages could use 'location of function' lines
Product: Documentation Reporter: David Kirchner <dpk>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description David Kirchner 2001-02-26 22:10:01 UTC 
	I've been having trouble trying to find functions in FreeBSD's
	kernel. The current "hard to find" function is VOP_READ. I can't
	find it defined anywhere under /usr/src/sys.

	It'd be great if the man pages for kernel functions (chapter 9) had
	something like:

	DEFINITION
		Found in /sys/kern/vnode_pager.c

	for example. It doesn't need a line number, that'd be too much
	to keep track of. Just something so we can find where these
	functions live, though.

	The same goes for the other library functions, but that'd be a lot
	more work.
Comment 1 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-09-04 02:07:26 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->suspended

It is highly unlikely that this will be done.  At least not until we 
move to XML based man pages and have super tools in place to do this 
sort of thing automatically.  This is completely unfeasible to do 
manually. 

I think this PR should be closed. 

Thanks for the submission, but unless you've got a swell idea about 
how to accomplish this, I don't think it will get done.
Comment 2 nik freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-01-09 13:27:08 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: suspended->closed

Suspended four months ago, no feedback from submitter since.