site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Hi Martin, It does talk about 1. Dan On 2 Jun 2005, at 6:00 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Dan Markarian wrote: Hi Walt, It is in alignment on Tiger. It is not in alignment on Panther. -- Martin _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... "pdisk -h" only talks about 2 Please keep in mind that we do not compile entire man pages into binaries, and aside from the arguably private interface that is 2, pdisk is more or less the same as it is on other platforms, as is the man page. It was our intention to converge the various branches of pdisk in Darwin, Linux, NetBSD, etc, which we have done in Tiger, however, we are unable to undo the private interface for legacy reasons on Darwin. Not so fast, it is more complicated. 'pdisk' was always two things rolled in one, namely 1. an interactive utility similar to pdisk on linux 2. a non-interactive command specific to the Mac that takes commands like -createPartition or -dump The whole is complicated by the fact that the interactive utility can be used non-interactively, too, so you can equivalently say pdisk -l /dev/rdisk1 (this is 1 and didn't work on pre-Tiger OSX's) or pdisk /dev/rdisk1 -dump (this is 2) The documentation never explained both of these and still doesn't in Tiger. "man pdisk" only talks about 1 and "pdisk -h" only talks about 2. In addition there were bugs in both versions of the documentation. Perhaps what you call "alignment" means that there are fewer bugs in the Tiger documentation? In any case, "man pdisk" and "pdisk -h" are still talking about different things. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com