Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!cbosgd!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: keyword-based news Message-ID: <2856@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 01:33:56 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.2856 Posted: Sat Jul 11 01:33:56 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 15:56:15 EDT References: <266@brandx.rutgers.edu> <8262@utzoo.UUCP> <2185@hplabsc.UUCP> <2855@ncoast.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: news.admin Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 32 It has occurred to me that I should provide an example of my assertation that: As quoted from <2855@ncoast.UUCP> by allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery): +--------------- | From experience: Someone may, in an article keyworded to A, B, C, and D, | make a reference to E which is so minor as to not deserve keywording... | until it turns out that that reference answers another person's question, | but that person never gets to see it on a keyword search for E. In fact, | you can change "may" to "will"; it happens all the time. +--------------- Macro-example (bad keywording): Find, in the permuted index for the sVr2 manuals, the man page for ftok(). (Hint: the word "ftok" is not in the permuted index at all.) Micro-example (small missed reference; assume, for this case, that keywords are cross-referenced via the "SEE ALSO" section of a manpage): Find the reason that a program under System V which wait()s for a child can act strangely under multiprocess adb (Plexus). (Hint: there's no reference to ptrace(2) in wait(2). With keywords, selecting the right ones to look up articles can require you to know the answer already beforehand.) [All right, this one's slightly unfair; I don't know that multiprocess adb is in other variants of System V; but it's a clean miss; and wait(2) STILL doesn't point to ptrace(2). If anyone's interested, if you set a break- point in the child, the parent might return from the wait() with a status of Stopped under certain conditions.] -- [Copyright 1987 Brandon S. Allbery, all rights reserved] \ ncoast 216 781 6201 [Redistributable only if redistribution is subsequently permitted.] \ 2400 bd. Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{ames,harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,{well,ihnp4}!hoptoad,cbosgd}!ncoast!allbery <>