[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#822654: Manpage: PIDFILE (none means no PID file), "none" should be quoted

[J Mo]

Package: sysvinit-utils
Version: 2.88dsf-59.3
Severity: minor

There are a huge number of spelling and terminology mistakes in this package.

One of them in particular which led me to expect incorrect behavior was from the man page:

"PIDFILE (none means no PID file)"

In this case, the word "none" is a literal, instead of an absence of.

I would suggest simply quoting the word none. If PIDFILE is in fact unset or zero-length, it is automatically set like so:

/lib/init/init-d-script

# Do not use pid file if $PIDFILE is 'none'.  Otherwise, generate from
# $NAME or use the value provided by the init.d script.
if [ none = "$PIDFILE" ] ; then
    PIDFILE=
elif [ -z "$PIDFILE" ] ; then
    PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
fi



Alternately, a complete re-wording of the sentence may be reasonable.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages sysvinit-utils depends on:
ii  init-system-helpers  1.29
ii  libc6                2.22-7
ii  startpar             0.59-3

sysvinit-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages sysvinit-utils suggests:
pn  bootlogd  <none>
pn  sash      <none>

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