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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
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Posted: Sat Jul 11 01:33:56 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 15:56:15 EDT
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Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
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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):
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| 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.
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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.]
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