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bug#53209: stat shows wrong, non-existing device number
From: |
Bernhard Voelker |
Subject: |
bug#53209: stat shows wrong, non-existing device number |
Date: |
Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:37:49 +0100 |
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On 1/12/22 16:35, Joachim Wagner wrote:
> I cloned git://git.sv.gnu.org/coreutils to add a sentence on this to stat's
> man page but coreutils/man/stat.x is only a template, missing what I see in
> `man stat` on my system. Trying to find out how to contribute to
> documentation, I encountered the following cycle with no answer:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/help/
> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-doc.html
> https://www.gnu.org/doc/doc.html
> https://www.gnu.org/help/help.html#helpgnu
Typically, the first thing to look at are the README* files, especially
'README-hacking'.
Re. man pages of the coreutils:
a) they are generated during the build from the output of "$UTIL --help"
plus the information in "man/$UTIL.x".
b) The information in the man pages should be kept as terse as possible,
and more detailed information should go into the Texinfo manual (which also
gets uploaded to https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/ in HTML,
PDF and other formats after each release).
Have a nice day,
Berny